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Effective Communication with Your Young Adult Child Struggling with Trauma
Check out my three-step process to improve connection.
As a parent, seeing your child struggle with trauma can be one of the most heart-wrenching experiences. When you’re dealing with your own stressors and challenges, the feelings of shame, judgment, and blame can feel overwhelming. You deserve relief, support, and tools that work right away. I’ve been a family coaching specialist for 20 years, working with parents of young adults experiencing Substance Use Disorder and mental and emotional health challenges. Through this experience, I’ve found a straightforward three-step process that helps parents communicate effectively with their struggling young adult children.
What is Trauma
Trauma happens in the relational field of what was and what was not, how we were tended to when in pain, and how our need for support was met or not met in the aftermath of overwhelm…
For so many of us, the most painful part of our lived experiences have not been the initial pain, heart ache or betrayal we endured but it was the experience of being alone with that pain. As Gabor Mate and Peter Levine describe, it’s the lack of connection in the midst of tragedy, overwhelm, shock or pain that leaves us wounded….
