How an Abusive Childhood Can Ruin Your Adult Health

re: How an Abusive Childhood Can Ruin Your Adult Health

Juanita_203 — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:33:20 GMT

I grew up in a family with extreme abuse of all types. Physical, sexual, mental, neglect, psychological. My siblings and I were just fodder for my parents to use and abuse. My whole childhood was consumed by the abuse and at 44 I am still on my healing journey - with Jesus as my healer and also a very good therapist.

As a kid I had extreme asthma - explained quite well by this article on inflammation. I thought it was the extreme fear and terror and it prob was when you add in all the stress hormones and how they were present 100% of the time, even when I was asleep.

My health as an adult is average - no major heart or arthritis etc. Asthma controlled. This study is a worry but I have to let it go and live a healthy life. You can have a real life after abuse and you can be free. I am still working on it with my faith too. I encourage others like me to just keep going. Do not settle for a lesser life. Seek healing and wholeness and keep going. You can be free of it!

re: How an Abusive Childhood Can Ruin Your Adult Health

organicmama21 — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:52:40 GMT

I had taken Dr Mercola's advice a year ago about NST for our son...and it worked amazingly. When I realized I would need to find our own therapy for our 10-yr old abused foster daughter...I went back to Dr Mercoa's site for advice. I had read about EFT for a year...decided it was time to follow through!

I found a therapist thru his link for this child and her sister. I am thanking God for the change in this young girl! It has been so dramatic that the counselors, social workers and director of our agency have been very encouraged and just plain 'amazed'!

We have continued to use EFT and some massage techniques through our whole family. It is a real gift!

re: How an Abusive Childhood Can Ruin Your Adult Health

Air — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:53:51 GMT

The remedy and the key to health is forgiveness.

re: How an Abusive Childhood Can Ruin Your Adult Health

Mike2 — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:25:43 GMT

I am a spiritual healer who sees and consciously works with energy, a large part of my practice is with abused women - they show up at my door because nothing else has worked for them. I see some of the abuse they have suffered - that energy and the truamatic memories still exist. EFT and most other therapies from my experience do not work very well. What is necessary is the gradual releasing of those memories along with the healing of the energy bodies. Other issues include poor nutrition, both past and present; which I do not work with. I refer those clients to experts in that area I also work with other conditions some out of the past which are other types of healing work. In summary I remove that which holds them back - and that is a gradual process. I also recommend prayer and meditation. For those left brain people, meditation does alter brain structure (which I also see) again, for that to happen good nutrition is necessary both in the gut and the brain.

re: How an Abusive Childhood Can Ruin Your Adult Health

shiva — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:20:15 GMT

I find it interesting that most folks who are involved in the healing arts, seem to turn to spirituality as a 'last' resort,.... rather than where it most often perhaps should be, ...which is as a first resort.

My experience has been that there is truly a science to the power of true prayer, .. and when that power of prayer is properly accessed,... that is when real healing takes place. ............... I have been involved in all sorts of healing arts over the years, and yet the one thing that has always proven to be the most critical and vital healing tool of all,.. is the act of sincere and heart felt prayer. ....

From what I have observed, prayer is that which 'allows' a true healing process to begin to take place,... and all of what does take place is guided by the source of all that IS,.... which is Spirit. ....... True prayer is a direct communication with and opening of ones heart to Spirit or 'The Source',.. and that simple act of turning to The Source of ones being,.. via 'feeling' from ones core,...what it is that one needs,... is the most powerful act of creation that exists.

re: How an Abusive Childhood Can Ruin Your Adult Health

Jimmy — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 02:37:10 GMT

It's all about turning that light switch on baby! Do it and your free! People need to be educated on how to do that. But the conventional system won't allow it and don't allow it. It's about controling tha masses for them.

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mmc88121 — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:13:52 GMT

Yes, Josh, everybody wants to be loved. However, this is saying there might be things that happened in your childhood that keep you from accepting that love. And it ultimately causes illness in your body. It can be physical, sexual, or emotional abuse. Or it can go back even before the person was born, possibly and the child has no control over it. That is where EFT comes in.

mmc88121

re: How an Abusive Childhood Can Ruin Your Adult Health

Josh Rubin — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:08:40 GMT

Are children are a product of their environment. Negative emotions are like vibrations that ripple through a pond. Yes working on the child is important, but if you look at how they have learned their behaviors, it stems back to the partents. Whether it is food, video games, etc, the partents are the ones who have control over that. We could talk forever about this, but I use the approach that all the Hindu's used back in the day.

If a child is sick, abusive, eats bad, etc, if you treat the parent, the child will even out. the same goes for positive vibrations. If the parents are postitive, it will vibrate to the child.

In this world today, most parents work more and spend less time with their family. Attention is the key and I find most kids act out because all they want is LOVE!