The Healing Childhood Trauma Podcast

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In this episode of the Healing Childhood Trauma Podcast, we explore why grief is such an important part of the healing process.
You'll learn how childhood trauma in adulthood can show up as sadness, anger, resentment, anxiety, or emotional triggers, why these feelings often reappear at different stages of life, and how acknowledging your losses can become a powerful step towards healing childhood wounds.
Drawing on attachment theory, developmental trauma, and trauma therapy, we discuss why grieving doesn't mean you're stuck in the past. Instead, it can help you move from survival mode towards healing, secure attachment, healthier adult relationships, and greater fulfilment.
In this episode, you'll learn:
Why grief is a natural response to childhood trauma
How unmet childhood needs continue to affect adulthood
Why grief can resurface throughout the healing journey
The difference between processing grief and staying stuck in the past
A simple reflective exercise to support your healing and self-awareness

Whether you're beginning to recover from childhood trauma or are already well into your healing journey, this episode offers compassionate, evidence-based insights to help you better understand yourself and move forward with hope.
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In this episode of the Healing Childhood Trauma Podcast, we explore one of the most overlooked forms of childhood trauma: neglect.
We'll unpack the research that has transformed our understanding of childhood trauma, including a landmark review that challenged the idea that neglect is somehow "less serious" than other forms of childhood maltreatment.
You'll discover how childhood neglect can affect the developing brain, nervous system, attachment, relationships, and sense of self, and why so many adults struggle with anxiety, low self-worth, emotional dysregulation, relationship difficulties, and other trauma symptoms despite believing they had a "good" or "normal" childhood.
Whether you're trying to understand the effects of childhood trauma, make sense of your own experiences, or begin your healing journey, this episode offers a compassionate, evidence-based perspective on why what didn't happen in childhood can sometimes be just as significant as what did.
In this episode, you'll learn:
Why childhood emotional neglect is often so difficult to recognise.
What the research tells us about the long-term effects of childhood neglect.
How unmet emotional needs can shape your mental health, relationships, attachment style, and self-worth in adulthood.
Why understanding your childhood experiences can help you make sense of anxiety, relationship difficulties, and other signs of childhood trauma in adults.
A practical healing reflection to help you begin connecting the dots between your childhood experiences and your life today.

Link to study: https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1001349&utm
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In this episode of the Healing Childhood Trauma Podcast, we explore how developmental trauma and childhood wounds shape the way we see ourselves, and why self-blame can persist long into adulthood.
You'll learn how these unconscious beliefs influence your emotional triggers, relationships, confidence, and inner critic, as well as practical ways to begin questioning and healing them.
We'll explore:
Why children often learn to blame themselves after trauma, abuse, or neglect.
How childhood experiences shape core beliefs that continue into adulthood.
The role of attachment, survival, and protective adaptations in self-blame.
Why the younger parts of us often continue carrying these beliefs.
Practical first steps towards childhood trauma healing and trauma healing.

Whether you're beginning your healing journey, exploring self healing childhood trauma, or trying to understand how your past continues to affect your present, this episode offers an evidence-based, compassionate guide to one of the most powerful beliefs trauma can leave behind.
Topics covered include: childhood trauma, childhood trauma in adulthood, developmental trauma, childhood trauma healing, trauma responses, emotional triggers, inner critic, attachment wounds, healing childhood trauma, self-blame, shame, and core beliefs.
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In this episode of The Healing Childhood Trauma Podcast, psychotherapist and childhood trauma specialist Alec Williams explores how our earliest relationships shape the way we connect with others throughout adult life.
You'll learn:
What attachment theory is and why it matters
The four attachment styles: secure, anxious, avoidant, and disorganised attachment
How childhood trauma, neglect, abuse, and inconsistent caregiving influence attachment patterns
Why these survival strategies continue into adulthood
How attachment styles affect relationships, emotional regulation, trust, intimacy, and feelings of safety
Why your attachment style is not your destiny - and how healing is possible

Topics covered: childhood trauma, attachment styles, attachment trauma, anxious attachment, avoidant attachment, disorganised attachment, secure attachment, developmental trauma, nervous system regulation, relationship trauma, emotional healing, trauma recovery, healing childhood wounds, and childhood trauma in adulthood.
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In this episode of The Healing Childhood Trauma Podcast, trauma therapist Alec Williams explores how childhood trauma, emotional neglect and early criticism shape the inner critic that follows many people into adulthood.
You'll discover why self-criticism often develops as a survival response, how childhood experiences become the way we speak to ourselves, and practical first steps towards healing.
In this episode you'll learn:
• Why childhood trauma creates a harsh inner critic
• How emotional neglect and criticism affect adult mental health
• Why your inner critic believes it's protecting you
• The connection between childhood trauma, shame and self-worth
• A simple exercise to begin healing childhood wounds
If you've ever struggled with feeling "I'm not enough," perfectionism, shame, people-pleasing or harsh self-judgment, this episode is for you.
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