11/30/2025
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1. Your Nervous System Was Built in Childhood
Before you had language, your body was already learning:
โIs love safe?โ
โIs comfort available?โ
โIs the world predictableโฆ or dangerous?โ
If you grew up around chaos, shouting, silent treatment, neglect, or emotional distance, your nervous system wired itself for survival, not safety. That wiring doesnโt disappear, it follows you.
๐น 2. Your Attachment Blueprint Was Formed Before Age 12
Whether you chase loveโฆ avoid loveโฆ fear loveโฆ or struggle to keep it, you learned that from the emotional climate you grew up in.
Your adult relationships arenโt random.
They mirror the love you were taught to accept.
๐น 3. Childhood Wounds Hide Inside Adult Behaviors
You think itโs โjust anxiety.โ
You think itโs โjust insecurities.โ
You think itโs โjust a type.โ
But psychology calls them:
Unmet needs. Emotional neglect. Attachment wounds. Nervous system memory.
Adults donโt randomly:
โข overthink
โข shut down
โข chase emotionally unavailable people
โข fear abandonment
โข struggle with boundaries
โข over-apologize
โข numb feelings
โข feel unworthy
These are childhood defense mechanisms showing up in adult form.
4. Trauma Isnโt Only What Happened, Itโs What Was Missing
Most people say โI wasnโt abused.โ
But emotional neglect, lack of affection, lack of protection, and lack of validation shape you just as deeply.
A child who never felt โheldโ grows into an adult who never feels โsafe.โ
5. Childhood Becomes Adulthood When Left Unhealed
Your childhood becomes your:
โข triggers
โข fears
โข attachment style
โข coping mechanisms
โข relationship patterns
โข self-worth
โข emotional reactions
Not because youโre broken but because the child in you never got what they needed.
โจ The Truth
No, not everything goes back to childhood but the most painful patterns often do.
Because the body keeps score. The brain remembers. And the emotional wounds you werenโt allowed to talk aboutโฆshow up as the behaviors you canโt explain today.
Youโre not dramatic.
Youโre not โtoo much.โ
Youโre not damaged.
Youโre carrying a story no one helped you process.
If this felt uncomfortably accurate, itโs because your inner child is asking to be seen.
โจ I Didnโt Choose to Be Born โ for childhood trauma, emotional neglect & inner child healing.
โจ Chasing Love That Hurts โ for breaking patterns that come from unmet childhood needs.
Choose the one you need today here: https://linktr.ee/traumatorecovery ๐