What Are Adverse Childhood Experiences?

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Childhood patterns deeply influence adult beliefs and behaviors.

It can be difficult to interrupt the tendency to either reproduce or compensate for these patterns.

Compensation behaviors may look positive but can be harmful.

Learning to detect and interrupt these behaviors can help you develop your own beliefs and unique qualities.

A critical piece of information is understanding how we carry childhood patterns of beliefs, behaviors, and emotions into adulthood. These dynamics are easily introduced to our young, malleable psyches. Immediate family members, relatives, teachers, clergy, and coaches present us with prescribed ways to live. The beliefs we inherit describe convictions about religion, work, money, and relationships. These early templates include how to relate to emotions, with the options being suppression or expression. As we step into adulthood, we either reproduce what we learned or compensate for it.

Reproducing patterns of beliefs, behaviors, and emotions usually occurs unconsciously.........

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