Making a Permanent Change to Recover Childhood Trauma:
It is sometimes difficult to look at the big picture of your child with trauma when you are struggling day to day. But to make these changes permanently means not only readying your child in his or her future but also that it might enable your child to have a successful future. Now, then, shall we see how you can begin the work of bringing about permanent changes, which will give your child power over his/her own future?
End Trauma Cycles of Generations:
Trauma results in scar and when it is not healed in trauma, scars may find expressions of negative meanings in later life. As adults we raise children the way we were brought up. Failure to heal trauma can either mean that your child will practice the same traumatising behaviours on others as they were traumatised. However, you can help your child start to reconstruct trust and safety through focusing on positive safe relations with your child. . This is what allows space for the healing process to actually occur.
Find out more about healthy, safe relationships and how it heals childhood trauma.
Build Resilient Properties:
You cannot reverse the trauma your child suffered through but you can guide them to live with their experiences. The concept of lifelong coping skills incorporates the processes of resilience, stress control, and the ability to learn how to own their emotions. This begins with training in learning to become more self-aware in the ability to spot triggers, their behaviour patterns, and learning how to exercise self-compassion. It also is about learning to establish and respect boundaries of their own, and boundaries of others. The lifelong coping skills refer to creative expression and space to self-care maintenance. This will enable us to engage in our strengths, therefore boosting our moral and empowering us even further
Post-Traumatic Growth promotion:
Positive change in psychology after a traumatic occurrence is the post-traumatic growth. This does not imply that the trauma is obliterated, but rather gaining of new strength, better understanding of life and more secure and healthier relationships. Cultivating such growth refers to letting your child go through their emotions, and to come to terms with her experiences. Teach your child to appreciate, and accept their emotions and avoid stuffing his or her feelings. It can be excellent to practice mindfulness to develop post-traumatic growth.
Assisting Your Child’s Future:
Your goal for your child shouldn’t just be about healing, but about empowering your child to have a happy and healthy future! This takes small steps, but the great news is, those steps are already what you are working on with your child, including:
- Providing a non-judgmental non-judgmental setting that is supportive
- The encouragement of an open communication and a healthy dialogue
- Giving an encouragement and confirmation of what your kid is seeing and feeling
- Triggers Learning how to identify and reduce triggers
- Researching Methods of stress reduction
- Engaging in self awareness, mindfulness and self care
- Suggestive outlets of invention
- Through positive reinforcement like reminding your child about his/her strengths and past accomplishments
- How to ask when you need some help
- And harking to all the conquests, great or small!
Healing from trauma is possible. It is possible to have a happy, healthy future, a successful one of your child who has undergone trauma. Once your child feels powerful within, s/he will not only live, s/he will live successfully! When you know your child can go with the flow of what the future brings to him/her, Or can be able to have the knowledge of when they need to seek assistance when everything has fallen really hard on them. By seeing the short-term process as a goal to a long-term vision for their future, you’ll be able to help your child develop the confidence and self-assuredness they need to have a wonderful and successful future!
