When Being Yourself Wasn’t Safe: How Relational Trauma Teaches Self-Rejection

One of the most agonizing and ignored effects of childhood complex trauma is the quiet, insidious way it teaches you to reject your identity, to reject who you are. Not by violence or explosive outbursts but by little, consistent messages that who you are is somehow wrong. Overly sensitive. Overly emotional. Overly needy. Excessive. Or […]