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
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.