Dr. Leslie

10/20/2021

Healing trauma improves our abilities to be present and emotionally available to others. ❤️🔥

10/20/2021

You are not alone. ❤️

Early childhood developmental trauma may be the reason a core sense of loneliness wants to be faced with love and care, without judgement.

Being emotionally and psychologically injured throughout childhood may have robbed you from enjoying healthy fulfilling connections and close dynamics in which you couldn’t help notice the people outside your private world were easily a part of, causing a deep sense of loneliness and disconnect.

We know childhood trauma can alter or restrict the brain’s normal cognitive process of seeking appropriate connections, exercising intuitive ways of interacting successfully, and detecting and avoiding dangerous dynamics. Also, having to use large amounts of energy regularly to hide or distract outsiders from discovering the chaos, abuse, or neglect within your home life only compounded the feelings of severance and alienation.

All those destabilizing childhood experiences into adolescence may scar us with post stress issues like overwhelm, overload, and chronic dysregulation that needs to be managed. It may have been difficult to have close friendships, date, have a best friend, or sustain loving relationships later in life.

The truth is, you are lovable and can experience meaningful relationships after childhood trauma. Learning ways to manage, regulate, and successfully connect becomes the new self-care routine that will soothe former pains that disabled your ability to embody an ongoing connection to a thriving world all around you.

Now… are you ready to listen closely to the distant cries coming from the heart of your loneliness? ❤️

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