Searching for a home is a search for stability, security, and a place to truly belong—a concept that resonates deeply with those navigating the effects of unhealed childhood trauma. Just as unresolved trauma can unsettle your sense of safety, the process of finding a nurturing, supportive environment is a step toward rebuilding that foundation of peace and reassurance.
Whether it's a physical space or emotional healing, both journeys require understanding, compassion, and a willingness to explore what fulfills your needs. Addressing the impact of past experiences, much like securing a home, lays the groundwork for personal growth, happiness, and the life you deserve.
Childhood trauma may manifest in more ways than our society acknowledges and may have an impact on the “disorder” you may have known or even been diagnosed with.
Sometimes — as in physical or sexual abuse — trauma is quite obvious. But there are many kinds of childhood trauma that you might not identify as trauma at all.
Neglect is also traumatic, and so is the loss of a parent, a serious childhood illness, a learning disability that left you doubting yourself, too many siblings, a detached, emotionally unavailable, or anxious parent, even your parent’s own childhood trauma.
Maybe you experienced a combination of these: neglect, loss of a parent, serious childhood illness, a learning disability, too many siblings, detached, emotionally unavailable, or anxious parents, your parents had childhood trauma.
Childhood neglect means that your emotional or physical needs were not attended to. This may be because your parents were overwhelmed and preoccupied.
You may worry that your childhood trauma will ruin your happiness, relationships, or even other professional areas of your life. Perhaps you don’t know where to start to learn how to heal.
You haven’t been feeling yourself lately. And you’ve been wondering: Are you suffering from unresolved childhood trauma? You thought it was over.
But could your trauma be leaking into your adult life, making you feel everything is turned upside down? If that’s so, why now?
“Why now?” probably seems like the sixty-million dollar question. You’ve done your best to move on. Even successfully blocked it out most of the time.
But lately, you’ve started to feel anxious again. Sometimes on the verge of panic. Depressed feelings are beginning to take over. Maybe you even feel like withdrawing into a shell.
How could your trauma be unresolved? What is this about?
Seeking Therapy and mental health support can be helpful in combating and healing your childhood trauma!
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About the Author - Raelynn Bass, LPC, MS, a licensed Professional Trauma-Informed Counselor specializing in Sex Therapy and Somatic Therapy. Just as finding the perfect home creates a sanctuary, I help individuals build a supportive and healing inner world to overcome challenges like anxiety, depression, trauma, and addiction. Together, we’ll design a life that feels secure, balanced, and deeply fulfilling—your greatest investment in well-being.
