How to Know Yourself: Family Trauma

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3 min readOct 8, 2023

Today’s topic is family traumas and the best things about your family.

Just like everyone else, every family has its tough times. This can sometimes be due to relationships, personal impasses, health issues, or even financial challenges.

Have you ever experienced a traumatic event by someone in your family?

Have there been very difficult times that your family has gone through together?

How old were you when you experienced these events, and how did they affect you?

What do you love most about your family? What makes you the happiest about being a member of your family?

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It’s often challenging to understand how children react to things. When talking about past memories with my family, I saw that what was a routine event for them was a significant event for me, and I realized that they spent days wondering how it might affect me.

Here’s a fun example: small sculptures at home. Years later, we learned that my brother was afraid of these sculptures but never said anything about it. For everyone else at home, they were just decorations on the shelf.

Similar things apply to traumatic events. While some events may seem extremely traumatic from the outside, they may have no effect on children, while other events…

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