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When Your Child's Age Triggers Your Own Trauma

My son is the same age I was when my parents divorced and I am projecting all my childhood fears onto his normal developmental struggles.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Developmental milestones in our children can activate unresolved trauma from the same age in our own childhood.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Generational trauma — identifying and interrupting?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.