In this episode of The Healing Childhood Trauma Podcast, we explore five subtle but powerful signs that unresolved childhood trauma may still be affecting your emotional wellbeing, relationships, and sense of self today.

You’ll learn how early experiences influence adult self-worth, emotional reactions, and recurring life patterns - often in ways that are easy to miss.

By the end of this episode, you’ll:

• Understand how childhood trauma can show up in adult life and relationships
• Recognise 5 key signs of unresolved or unhealed childhood trauma
• Learn why focusing only on present-day symptoms doesn’t always create lasting change
• Gain a simple, practical healing reflection to start breaking old patterns

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In this episode, we explore why slow and steady pacing in psychotherapy often leads to deeper, safer, and more lasting healing, and how moving too quickly can sometimes make things harder rather than easier.

By the end of this episode, you’ll be able to:

• Understand why going faster in trauma work can sometimes slow progress or increase symptoms
• Recognise how the nervous system responds to overwhelm and why pacing matters
• Learn what titration is and how working in small, manageable doses supports healing
• Identify signs that your current pace is helping - or quietly getting in the way
• Develop a more compassionate, realistic sense of how to find a pace that prioritises safety and regulation

Whether you’re in therapy, considering it, or doing your own inner work, this episode offers a grounded framework for understanding how fast is actually helpful in trauma healing.

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In this episode, we explore how childhood trauma affects adult relationships, and why the patterns you struggle with in intimacy, friendship, and connection often didn’t start in the present.

From attachment styles and nervous system responses to people-pleasing, avoidance, and fear of abandonment, we unpack how early relational wounds quietly shape the way you love, attach, and respond to others today.

By the end of this episode, you’ll:

Understand how childhood trauma shows up in adult relationships

Learn how early attachment experiences shape your attachment style today

Identify common trauma-based relationship patterns, including anxious, avoidant, and disorganised attachment

Recognise why your nervous system reacts so strongly in moments of conflict, distance, or intimacy

Begin separating past wounds from present relationships

Discover how healing childhood trauma can happen in relationship - not just alone

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In this episode, we explore how childhood trauma creates deeply ingrained cycles of thoughts, emotions, and behaviours that can follow us into adulthood.

By the end of this episode you'll be able to:

• Understand what trauma cycles are and how they form in childhood
• Recognise why patterns that no longer serve you once had an important protective role
• Identify how these cycles show up in your nervous system and relationships
• Learn practical ways to pause, notice, and gently interrupt trauma-driven patterns
• Begin breaking cycles with more awareness, self-compassion, and choice

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In this episode, we explore how the core beliefs we carry about ourselves in adulthood can often be formed in response to childhood trauma - not because they were true, but because they helped us survive.

By the end of this episode, you’ll be able to:

• Understand what core beliefs are and how they form as adaptive survival responses
• Reframe beliefs like “I don’t matter” as protective strategies rather than personal flaws
• Recognise the environments that made these beliefs necessary
• Identify clear steps to help you form new core beliefs

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In this episode, we explore emotional numbness - the quiet, often unseen trauma response that can shape how we think, feel, and show up in the world.

We break down how numbness forms, why it once protected you, and the ways it can quietly shape your adult life today.

By the end of this episode, you’ll learn:

• the neuroscience and psychology behind emotional numbness
• the key signs and patterns to help you recognise it in yourself
• how childhood environments contribute to it
• why numbness interferes with needs, identity, and intimacy
• gentle, practical strategies to begin warming your emotional world back to life

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In this episode, we dive deep into one of the most misunderstood trauma responses: freeze.

If you’ve ever gone blank in conflict, shut down in conversations, or felt disconnected from your own life, this episode will help you understand why.

By the end of this episode, you’ll be able to:

• Clearly understand what the freeze response is and why your body uses it
• Recognise how freeze shows up in your day-to-day life, from subtle shutdowns to full dissociation
• See how the freeze response can be rooted in childhood trauma and shaped by early survival patterns
• Learn practical, gentle steps to help thaw the freeze response in your own nervous system
• Begin connecting back to your body, emotions, and sense of safety.

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In this episode, we walk through the five key steps that help you finally understand how trauma has shaped you.

By the end of this episode, you’ll be able to:

• Identify which type of trauma you’ve experienced
• Understand the core wound that experience left in your sense of self
• Recognise how trauma shows up in your body, emotions, and beliefs
• Spot the protective patterns that were once survival strategies
• Notice your triggers and what they’re actually pointing you toward

If you’ve ever wondered “Why am I like this?” - this episode will help you connect the dots.

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