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Gifts from a Challenging Childhood: Healing the Legacy of Childhood Trauma Do you feel like the pain of your past still shows up in your present life? Do you sometimes overreact, feel overwhelmed, or wonder why you keep repeating old patterns? If so, Gifts from a Challenging Childhood offers a clear, compassionate roadmap to healing the wounds that began in childhood. When stressors of everyday life trigger big emotional reactions, it's often a sign that something historical is being touched. As the saying goes, if it feels hysterical, it's probably historical. This book helps you uncover those deeper roots so you can finally understand, work with, and begin to heal them. Drawing from Pia Mellody's groundbreaking Model of Developmental Immaturity, author Jan Bergstrom guides you through the core issues that form in childhood and shows you how to transform them through daily, practical tools. You'll learn how to build a Functional Adult Self capable of re-parenting your wounded parts with compassion, boundaries, and true wisdom. This book will help you: Cultivate healthy self-esteem Create healthy boundaries in relationships Strengthen your sense of self Develop valuable self-care practices Foster interdependence and authenticity in your relationships You'll also: Gain clarity about your family-of-origin history Learn to re-parent your inner child and heal past trauma Discover how to speak your truth and have your own back Access downloadable exercises, charts, and tools to support your healing journey Gifts from a Challenging Childhood has helped thousands of readers turn old wounds into wisdom and live with greater calm, confidence, and self-acceptance. With warmth and clarity, it invites you to do the same-to move from pain toward peace, one step at a time. Your healing matters. Start your journey today.

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""In Gifts from a Challenging Childhood, author Jan Bergstrom describes with empathy and clarity, the exact emotional, intellectual, and neurological ways that children's brains respond to trauma, and how the impact of that experience endures in the child's life throughout adulthood. . . . In-depth descriptions of supportive, therapeutic techniques abound in this book, from mindfulness to grounding to writing a letter to yourself. Whether you experienced traumatic neglect or excessive control and enmeshment at the hands of your parents, this book will not only help you identify what went wrong for you, it will also provide you with validating, supportive, and compassionate ways to reparent yourself."" -Jonice Webb, best-selling author of Running on Empty and Running on Empty No More ""One of the most fool-proof ways to support lasting brain change is through implementing embodied practices. In Gifts from a Challenging Childhood, Bergstrom gives her readers not one or two practices but a book full of exercises that readers can use to support the changes and healing they are looking for. This is a book that encourages readers to build a deeper relationship with themselves and gives people who want to take care of themselves well practices that they can enact right away to support big shifts in their lives."" -Juliane Taylor Shore, LMFT, LPC author of Setting Boundaries that Stick ""Jan's book is a precious guide to untangling the complications and difficulties many of us have in our adult lives, arising from traumatic childhoods. Read it, underline it, take it with you on your personal journey. This book will bring you home."" -Nick Morgan, president of Public Words and author of Can You Hear Me? ""The devastating consequences of childhood trauma for the individual, families, and society at large are far-reaching and cannot be overestimated. Jan Bergstrom's new work builds beautifully on Pia Mellody's Post-Induction Therapy model, offering hope and a detailed path forward for healing childhood wounds and living an authentic and empowered life."" -Vicki Tidwell Palmer, author of Moving Beyond Betrayal ""Jan Bergstrom makes available what most only find from years of therapy- how to live a life of knowing our inherent worth and a practice that returns us to compassion. Her book is a deep yet practical guide to fostering self-awareness and ultimately inherent worth. It is a game-changer for any adult or parent who wishes they had it earlier in their life."" -Susan MacKenty Brady, author of Mastering Your Inner Critic and 7 Other High Hurdles to Advancement and Arrive and Thrive

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