Identifying Your Childhood Trauma Archetype
And what it means for your success in life and in love.
The experiences of our childhood do more than just form faint memories. They implant on us in transformative ways that go on to impact our adult lives for decades to come. When you grow up in the middle of trauma, chaos, or fear it creates crucial baselines that inform everything from how we process stress on how we form relationships.
Our childhood experiences shape us more than perhaps any other events in our lives, yet so many of us fail to fully explore and resolve them.
By identifying your child trauma archetype, you can empower yourself to heal as an adult. This means going deep, though, and confronting memories, moments, and people who might otherwise give you a strong emotional response.
The more we understand where we’ve come from, the more effective we can be at determining where we go. Stop running from the pain of your dysfunctional childhood and embrace it. Identify your broken child archetype, then use that knowledge to empower yourself to move on.
What happens in childhood lingers for a lifetime.
The experiences of our childhoods don’t just linger for a moment — they linger for a lifetime. As children, we are blank slates; dry sponges soaking up every ounce of information in our environments. We see everything. We hear everything. We feel everything (even when we don’t realize it).
These events shape the decisions we make in adulthood, the partners we choose, the careers we gravitate toward. While these lessons can be good, they can also be toxic. Either way, it’s up to us to find the power to resolve them from within.
Emotionally broken children are rarely born that way. More often than not, they are created by ill, negligent, or self-centered adults who are doing their best only for themselves. Caught up in the pain and dysfunction, their children squeeze themselves into the most comfortable roles they can fill and begin to shape their worldview.