A traumatic experience impacts a person. If the trauma was ongoing, the effects are usually more severe; but even one experience can create immeasurable damage.

Whether your childhood trauma was a matter of witnessing a horrible event, or, as occurs even more often, being on the receiving-end of physical, sexual, or extreme emotional abuse, you have probably already experienced plenty of consequences from it.

One of the most important things for you to know is that the effects do not need to be permanent. What happened to you in your childhood does not need to ruin the rest of your life! Equally important, you also do not need to spend the rest of your life relying on support groups or medications, being in therapy or counseling, or any of the methods which are quite popular these days. While such methods can indeed be of short-term help, the can also create dependency. The bottom line is they can keep you stuck – living in the problem rather than in the solution.

Childhood trauma often leads to a host of problems. These can include eating disorders, substance abuse, inability to form and maintain healthy relationships, and many other difficulties. These problems themselves can lead a trauma survivor to feeling helpless and hopeless.

Living in the solution means addressing the cause of these problems at its source. When you can face the trauma and acknowledge it for what it was, you are making progress toward the solution. When you work through all of those feelings of pain, anger, and confusion, you are taking the best steps toward letting it go.

If you have not yet taken these steps, you are still living in the consequences of the trauma. Failing to address the old feelings in the context of the trauma, they often come out in other, very inappropriate ways. You do not need to continue in this type of pattern; nor do you need to make recovery the focus of the rest of your life.

If you experienced trauma in your childhood, you may now be at a turning point. You may be ready to acknowledge exactly how damaging those experiences eventually became to you – the impact it has had on virtually every area of your life. If you are also ready to make some positive changes and begin living in the solution rather than existing in the problem, the good news is that you are now opening the door to a bright and happier future.

Are you ready to put the past in the past – and finally be free of its effects? Beware of anything that you can see will create further dependency – whether keeping the old problem or adding new ones, it is not the answer. There are answers which are not only much more positive, but will also be much better in the long run – and the very best answer of all is that your life can finally be in your own hands, to live and experience as you wish! This can all be yours – as soon as you begin living in the solution!