Childhood Trauma and Recovery Blog
Welcome to The Hard Peel’s blog on childhood trauma and recovery. Here you will find stories, articles, and lists about trauma and recovery.
If you’ve ever felt like there was something wrong with you, you were broken, unloveable, or like the world is against you, you’re in the right place. Cause same.
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New Blog Posts
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Trauma-Informed Financial Healing: A Guide to Reclaiming Your Money Mindset
Financial healing means reclaiming your autonomy and trust, and building confidence with money and spending. When you understand where your spending behaviors come from—whether it be childhood, adult…
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Practical Financial Tips for Trauma Survivors: Budgeting as Self-Care
As trauma survivors, typical financial tips and budgeting may not work for us. That’s because developing a new relationship with money after trauma requires more than budgeting apps…
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Financial Abuse: Rebuilding Your Finances After Abusive Relationships
After childhood, many trauma survivors find themselves in adult relationships that mimic the financial exploitation, abuse, or shame from their childhoods. It’s not a coincidence, it’s a pattern.
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A Simple Question for Reclaiming Your Autonomy and Self-Trust
The most powerful question we can ask—of ourselves, of others, of the world—is deceptively simple. That question is: Why? It’s the question that births clarity, disrupts conditioning, and…
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What Are Childhood Trauma Responses?
An Exploration of Roots, Reactions, and Recovery In simplest terms, Childhood Trauma Responses are how the body and mind begin to react as a result of abuse and/or…
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The Compass of Fear: Doing it Scared
Just as the fear hurt me, it also helped me to hurt others. By pretending to be something I was not, I manipulated my relationships. By not being honest…
- Adverse Childhood Experiences
- Autonomy & Self-Trust
- Childhood Trauma
- Complex PTSD
- Finances and Budgeting
- Grief
- Mental Health
- Navigating Adulthood
- Personal Essay
- Real Life Recovery
- Relationships
- Signs of Childhood Trauma
- Uncategorized
- What is Childhood Trauma?

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