Facing Thanksgiving and Christmas After Childhood Trauma

Shirley J. Davis
4 min readNov 27, 2019
Photo by Timothy Eberly on Unsplash

Every year people in the United States gather with their families to eat turkey or ham and enjoy each other’s company. However, for those who experienced childhood trauma growing up in a dysfunctional home, Thanksgiving and Christmas are torture as they relive the holidays of the past.

This article will focus on why the holidays are so rough for trauma survivors and…

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Shirley J. Davis

I am an author/speaker/grant writer in the U.S. My passion is authoring information about mental health disorders, especially dissociative identity disorder..