Why You Still Feel Empty Even When Everything Is Going Great | Patrick Teahan
The Adversity Advantage with Doug BopstShow Notes
Patrick Teahan is a childhood trauma therapist, educator, and content creator known for helping people understand how dysfunctional family systems shape mental health, relationships, addiction, and emotional patterns in adulthood. Drawing from both his professional experience and his own recovery from childhood trauma and addiction, Patrick makes complex psychological concepts accessible through practical, relatable language. His work focuses on childhood trauma recovery, inner child work, dysfunctional family rules, emotional neglect, boundaries, estrangement, and rebuilding a healthier sense of self.
Today on the show we discuss: refrigerator buzz depression and how to recognize it, how childhood trauma fuels addiction and emotional shutdown, the hidden family rules that shape adult relationships, when estrangement from a parent may be necessary, how to rebuild damaged family relationships with boundaries and realistic expectations, how trauma therapy and inner child work can help you heal and much more.
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