Holidays can be stressful times that pull up complicated emotions.  Visits to family can bring up unresolved and painful memories from childhood. Current relationships can be difficult to manage, especially when the "togetherness" is intense or lasts too long....

  Trauma such as physical, sexual or emotional abuse is especially powerful when experienced in childhood.  People often ask me why this is true and whether healing childhood trauma as an adult is possible.  I want to share some of...