Dialoging Worksheet from Shame Webinar:
www.patrickteahantherapy.com

Writing Prompts:

1) How does my family respond when I question abuse or problems?
2) How do my parents do with their partnerships and intimacy?
3) Does my parent or parents really see me for who I am? How and why?
4) Do they show up for me in ways that I need? Who shows up for who more? How and why?
5) Does it feel like I’m an alien in my family system? How and why?
6) How does my family system manage present conflict. Is it mature and healthy?
7) How does my family talk about my childhood?
Are they defensive or don’t remember themselves, or
assume normalcy because basic needs were met?

Additional thoughts:

*If you struggle with severe dissociative problems such as extreme numbness or depersonalization or derealization I don't recommend pursuing childhood trauma work without doing work around emotional regulation and grounding skills. There is a time for everything.

Some factors that can complicate this issue on memory loss.
*You are the expert. In no way does this video intend to implant, suggest or confuse. Again it's what the system is like in the present.
*Humans can loose the memories or the quality of memories over time.*Sometimes childhood is so uneventful that we don’t remember huge issues because it was uneventful which may be a problem unto itself such as extreme neglect. *Sometimes there is so much stress and trauma that children dissociate and detach.

In this video we cover: repressed memories, memory, flashbacks, triggers, toxic family systems, boundaries, truth, childhood trauma, inner child, inner child work, cptsd, ptsd, toxic parents, narcissistic abuse, healing, abusive parents, emotional abuse, childhood ptsd, repressed memories, hypervigilance, narcissistic parents, emotionally abusive parents, child abuse, narcissistic father, childhood emotional neglect, abuse, narcissistic mother, eating disorders, alcoholism, scapegoat, genogram, siblings, dissociation, trauma

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:06 About Working With Memory Problems for Childhood Trauma
3:21 We Are Dissociated From Our Childhood Story
5:07 The Goal Is Not Getting the Memories Back
6:09 Connect With Me
6:51 Two Hypothetical Case Examples
8:38 Family Map Genogram
14:40 Family Map Genogram 2
18:03 Working On the System In Therapy
19:22 Your Triggers Tell Your Story Too
20:34 How to Work On Embracing What You Do Know
22:30 Closing Thoughts
23:05 Outro

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Childhood Trauma Resources and Offerings
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