Hi, my name is Julie and I have been supporting people recovering from childhood emotional wounds for 20+ years and during that time I have been healing my own wounds too.

My parents couldn’t give to me, what they hadn’t experienced themselves. Sadly, my parents were born in the East End of London during the Second World war, their early years were filled with terror and fear. I think they may have been able to recover from the trauma, if they had not continued to be in a state of deprivation with rationing, very few basic resources, needing to move to new locations and establish new communities, most of whom were probably suffering from undiagnosed PTSD.

By the time I was born, basic facilities were back, homes, schools, hospitals, shops etc. But what about the people, what about all the lost years of learning how to be relational and respectful and the many years of not feeling internally safe? As a child I had no concept of war, no concept that my parents had missed out on a natural childhood, no idea they had been traumatised, along with many of the other adults in my community. I had no clue their lack of affection, their criticism, frequent rejection, emotional abandonment and cruel sense of humour were due to their childhood trauma. They did not get anything like a secure childhood and without knowing, they passed on their disorganisation and emotional instability to me. Their trauma re-experiencing and emotional flashbacks became my childhood trauma. We were all unaware and choiceless.

This lack of knowledge and understanding kept me in a cycle of limitation that I wasn’t aware of. Once I started my therapeutic learning journey, I started to understand things differently and I was able to free myself from these unhelpful limitations and start healing and repairing instead.

Human Givens Post Graduate Diploma in association with Nottingham Trent University, which is an integrative therapeutic model which starts from the premise of what it is to be human. Focusing on our human needs and the resources given, developed and acquired to meet those needs.

Excessive stress and Trauma and our response to these can create barriers to meeting needs in a healthy way. Resonance is a deeper level of accompaniment, allowing our nervous systems to truly know you have been seen, heard and you matter. Resonant processes allow us to revisit together what your mind often repetitively revists alone, allowing your body to know the trauma has passed, reopening the possibility of healthy change.

Using the therapeutic models of CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) and TA (Transactional Analysis), this training allowed the counsellors to collaborate with individuals to focus on the body’s needs and how our childhood conditioning and current environment influence our nutritional and energy consumption choices.