The Hidden Cost of “I’m Fine” - Understanding Emotional Numbness After Childhood Trauma (Ep 11)

In this episode of The Healing Trauma Podcast, we explore how childhood trauma can shape the protective patterns we carry into adulthood, from people-pleasing and anxiety to avoidance, anger and our inner critic. We'll look at how these patterns often develop as ways of keeping us safe, why they can continue to influence our emotions, relationships and behaviour long after childhood, and how they can sometimes take us further away from who we really are. You'll also learn three practical steps to help you recognise these old survival responses, understand the childhood wounds behind them, and begin creating more choice and control in how you respond, as you continue your journey of healing childhood. _________________________________ 💌 Join the mailing list, where each week we dig deep into a topic not covered here and you’ll have first access to everything new. 🌐 Visit my website for info about working with me one-to-one or in groups: www.alecwilliamstherapy.co.uk ✉️ Get in touch: Contact - Alec Williams Therapy

In this episode of the Healing Childhood Trauma Podcast, we explore one of the most painful and often overlooked parts of healing childhood trauma: the sense of injustice that can come from having to heal from experiences you never chose or caused. Why is it that, years later, you're the one left picking up the pieces? Why does the responsibility for healing fall on you when you weren't responsible for what happened? We look at how childhood trauma in adulthood can leave people struggling with anger, resentment, frustration and a deep sense of unfairness and why these feelings can be an important part of the healing process. If you're working to recover from childhood trauma, struggling with unresolved childhood wounds, or wondering how to heal trauma that wasn't your fault, this episode might be for you. _________________________________ 💌 Join the mailing list, where each week we dig deep into a topic not covered here and you’ll have first access to everything new. 🌐 Visit my website for info about working with me one-to-one or in groups: www.alecwilliamstherapy.co.uk ✉️ Get in touch: Contact - Alec Williams Therapy

In this episode of the Healing Childhood Trauma podcast, we explore three practical steps that can help you begin healing the deeper wounds you may still carry from early childhood trauma. We’ll look at how painful early experiences can leave behind feelings of rejection, abandonment, not being good enough or being unlovable - and how these wounds can continue to show up in adult life through anxiety, anger, perfectionism, people-pleasing, shutting down and relationship difficulties. You’ll learn how to begin meeting the wounded parts of yourself rather than avoiding them, process some of the emotions and experiences they may still be carrying, and start giving yourself some of what you didn’t receive at the time. Because while you can’t go back and change your childhood, you can begin creating the safety, care, connection and understanding those parts of you may still need today. _________________________________ 💌 Join the mailing list, where each week we dig deep into a topic not covered here and you’ll have first access to everything new. 🌐 Visit my website for info about working with me one-to-one or in groups: www.alecwilliamstherapy.co.uk ✉️ Get in touch: Contact - Alec Williams Therapy

In this episode of the Healing Childhood Trauma podcast, we’re exploring how to break free from the inner critic childhood trauma may have created - that voice telling you you’re not good enough, you’ve messed up, or that everyone else is doing better than you. For many people, a harsh inner critic has its roots in childhood. Criticism, rejection, shame, emotional neglect or other difficult experiences can shape the way we learn to speak to ourselves - and sometimes, that critical voice may even have developed as an attempt to protect us. You'll be walked through three practical steps to help you understand where your inner critic came from, notice it without automatically believing what it says, and begin developing a different relationship with this part of yourself. Because healing isn’t necessarily about getting rid of your inner critic completely. It’s about turning down the volume, loosening its grip, and helping it move out of the driver’s seat - so you can live with greater confidence, self-worth and freedom. _________________________________ 💌 Join the mailing list, where each week we dig deep into a topic not covered here and you’ll have first access to everything new. 🌐 Visit my website for info about working with me one-to-one or in groups: www.alecwilliamstherapy.co.uk ✉️ Get in touch: Contact - Alec Williams Therapy

In this episode of the Healing Childhood Trauma podcast, we explore what core emotional wounds are, how they can continue to affect us in adulthood, and why understanding the wound beneath a protective pattern can be an important part of the healing process. We’ll look at the different types of wounds, unmet needs, emotional triggers and the protective strategies we can develop to avoid experiencing old pain again. You’ll also learn three ways to begin identifying your own childhood wounds today. If you’re interested in childhood trauma healing, inner child work, trauma responses, emotional triggers, attachment wounds and understanding the deeper roots of your patterns, this episode will help you begin looking beyond the symptom and towards what may be sitting underneath it. _________________________________ 💌 Join the mailing list, where each week we dig deep into a topic not covered here and you’ll have first access to everything new. 🌐 Visit my website for info about working with me one-to-one or in groups: www.alecwilliamstherapy.co.uk ✉️ Get in touch: Contact - Alec Williams Therapy