The Beauty of Self-Discovery

Finding Yourself Despite Childhood Trauma

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There is a lot of talk today about finding yourself and being true to yourself.

But what if you have experienced childhood trauma and have spent your entire life hating who you are? What then? How on earth do you change the attitude that you hold stating you are worthless and shouldn’t have been born?

This article is going to tackle the beauty of self-discovery and how to end those potent negative messages that can flood the mind of a survivor of childhood trauma.

What is Self-Discovery?

We’ve all heard of the myriad number of books on finding yourself and making your own way in the world. Their central premise is that you can discover in yourself the power to move forward and have a fruitful life.

These books and other media types market a wonderful pretense, that one can go within to discover who we are and where we wish to go with our lives. The process of self-discovery is where you are guided by asking yourself deep questions and self-examination your thoughts, actions, and words to reach conclusions about who you truly are as a person.

Being a survivor of childhood trauma, especially if you have developed dissociative identity disorder (DID) or other…