Learn how trauma can keep the nervous system stuck in survival mode through fight, flight, freeze, and fawn responses. This article explains how trauma affects the brain and body, why symptoms like anxiety, emotional numbness, hypervigilance, and people pleasing happen, and how trauma focused therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) can support healing and recovery.

Childhood trauma can affect adult life in ways many people do not immediately recognize. Anxiety, relationship struggles, low self-worth, and emotional triggers are often connected to earlier experiences. Learn the common signs of childhood trauma in adults and how therapy for childhood trauma can support healing.