Childhood Neglect and Trauma Resources

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• 30 Signs Your Childhood Still Affects You Today
• How to Heal Childhood Wounds That Still Affect You?
• How to Release Shame Stored From Childhood Experiences?
• How Childhood Trauma Leads to Addiction: Top 9 Causes
• 5 Childhood Wounds (and How to Heal Them)
• Healing From Childhood Emotional Neglect In 6 Steps
• Childhood Emotional Neglect Test: Was I Neglected As A Child?

Podcasts About Childhood Neglect and Trauma

• Adult Child — Andrea Ashley
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  One of the most directly relevant podcasts for adults raised in dysfunctional families. It covers complex and relational trauma, toxic shame, codependency, family patterns, and recovery.
• Adult Child of Dysfunction — Tammy Vincent
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  Specifically addresses growing up with neglect, abuse, alcoholism, chaos, and dysfunctional family systems and how those experiences affect adulthood.
• The Complex Trauma Podcast — Sarah Herstich
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  Hosted by a trauma therapist and focused on complex PTSD, childhood emotional neglect, shame, people-pleasing, hypervigilance, and other long-term effects of developmental trauma.
• Childhood Emotional Neglect With Dr. Danica Harris
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  An episode specifically about why emotional neglect can be difficult to recognize and how unmet childhood emotional needs can affect adult relationships and self-worth.
• Latchkey Urchins & Friends
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  A podcast explicitly focused on childhood emotional neglect, attachment, adverse childhood experiences, trauma, relationships, and healing.
• Childhood Emotional Neglect With Dr. Jonice Webb — Bear Psychology Podcast
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  Dr. Jonice Webb discusses how emotional neglect develops, how it can show up in adulthood, and steps involved in recovery.

TED Talks About Childhood Neglect and Trauma

• How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime — Nadine Burke Harris
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  One of the strongest talks on childhood trauma. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains how repeated abuse, neglect, caregiver mental-health problems, and other adverse childhood experiences can affect development and long-term health.
• Eradicating Emotional Neglect So Children and Teens Can Thrive — Emily Hyunsoo Noh
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  One of the more directly relevant TEDx talks specifically about emotional neglect, including how neglect can become normalized and overlooked.
• How Did Your Parents Mess You Up? — Fiona Douglas
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  Examines parental deficits, child abuse, domestic violence, and how harmful childhood environments can have lifelong consequences.
• Overcoming Childhood Trauma and Abuse — Tanya Waymire
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  A survivor’s account of childhood sexual abuse and the process of confronting and speaking about what happened.
• Childhood Trauma: Managing PTSD Through Therapy — Julia Torres Barden
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  A personal account of childhood trauma and later PTSD, with an emphasis on eventually recognizing the effects and seeking treatment.
• Know Your ACEs
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  Explores adverse childhood experiences and how repeated childhood adversity can influence adult relationships and functioning.
• The Healing Power of Connection: Children and Trauma — Caroline Jones
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  Focuses on children affected by abuse and neglect and the importance of reliable adults, support, and healthy connection after trauma.