The Healing Childhood Trauma Podcast
This podcast is for anyone still carrying the weight of past wounds and trauma experienced in childhood and adolescence. It explores how childhood trauma shapes beliefs, relationships, sense of self, and nervous system responses. Hosted by Alec Williams, a psychotherapist and trauma specialist based in London, each episode focuses on a specific challenge created by childhood trauma, explaining what it is, why it develops, and how to begin healing.
Episodes
Grieving the Childhood You Never Had | Loss, Healing & Hope (Ep 38)
📩 Ready to keep going? Join my free weekly e-newsletter where you’ll get further insights, reflections, and guidance delivered straight to your inbox each week. Just enter your email here. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ In this episode of the Healing Childhood Trauma Podcast, we explore why grief is such an important part of the healing process.You'll learn how childhood trauma in adulthood can show up as
Why Childhood Neglect Can Be as Harmful as Physical Abuse (Ep 37)
📩 Ready to keep going? Join my free weekly e-newsletter where you’ll get further insights, reflections, and guidance delivered straight to your inbox each week. Just enter your email here. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ In this episode of the Healing Childhood Trauma Podcast, we explore one of the most overlooked forms of childhood trauma: neglect.We'll unpack the research that has transformed our understa
It Was Never Your Fault: Understanding Self-Blame After Childhood Trauma (Ep 36)
📩 Ready to keep going? Join my free weekly e-newsletter where you’ll get further insights, reflections, and guidance delivered straight to your inbox each week. Just enter your email here. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ In this episode of the Healing Childhood Trauma Podcast, we explore how developmental trauma and childhood wounds shape the way we see ourselves, and why self-blame can persist long into ad
How Childhood Trauma Shapes Your Attachment Style (Ep 35)
📩 Ready to keep going? Join my free weekly e-newsletter where you’ll get further insights, reflections, and guidance delivered straight to your inbox each week. Just enter your email here. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ In this episode of The Healing Childhood Trauma Podcast, psychotherapist and childhood trauma specialist Alec Williams explores how our earliest relationships shape the way we connect with
2 Ways Childhood Trauma Creates Your Inner Critic - And How to Heal (Ep 34)
📩 Ready to keep going? Join my free weekly e-newsletter where you’ll get further insights, reflections, and guidance delivered straight to your inbox each week. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ In this episode of The Healing Childhood Trauma Podcast, trauma therapist Alec Williams explores how childhood trauma, emotional neglect and early criticism shape the inner critic that follows many people into adultho
Understanding Avoidant Attachment and Childhood Trauma: Is It You or Your Relationship? (Ep 33)
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The "I'm Not Enough" Wound: How Childhood Trauma Affects Self-Worth & Healing (Ep 32)
📩 Ready to keep going? Join my free weekly e-newsletter where you’ll get further insights, reflections, and guidance delivered straight to your inbox each week. Just enter your email here. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Why do so many people struggle with the painful feeling of "I'm not enough"?In this episode of the Healing Childhood Trauma Podcast, we explore how childhood trauma, neglect, rejection, and
Why Achievements Might Not Bring Healing: Childhood Trauma and Success (Ep 31)
📩 Ready to keep going? Join my free weekly e-newsletter where you’ll get further insights, reflections, and guidance delivered straight to your inbox each week. Just enter your email here. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ In this episode of The Healing Childhood Trauma Podcast, we dive deep into why achievements alone may not heal deep childhood wounds. Exploring childhood trauma, attachment wounds, and the
Rebuild Your Identity After Childhood Trauma | Three Steps to Healing (Ep 30)
📩 Ready to keep going? Join my free weekly e-newsletter where you’ll get further insights, reflections, and guidance delivered straight to your inbox each week. Just enter your email here. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ In this episode, we explore one of the most common questions I hear from clients:How do you rebuild your sense of self after childhood trauma?Childhood wounds can leave you either feeling d
How Attachment Wounds Shape Adult Relationships | with Holly Roberts (Ep 29)
📩 Ready to keep going? Join my free weekly e-newsletter where you’ll get further insights, reflections, and guidance delivered straight to your inbox each week. Just enter your email here. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Holly's website: www.talkingrelationships.co.ukHow do attachment wounds from childhood quietly sabotage your adult relationships? In this episode, relationship psychotherapist Holly Roberts
What Does Healing from Childhood Trauma Actually Look Like? Trauma Recovery Insights (Ep 28)
📩 Ready to keep going? Join my free weekly e-newsletter where you’ll get further insights, reflections, and guidance delivered straight to your inbox each week. Just enter your email here. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ What does healing from childhood trauma actually look like in real life?In this episode of The Healing Childhood Trauma Podcast, we explore the often messy, non-linear and deeply human real
Strong Reactions, Old Wounds: Managing Trauma Triggers from Childhood (Ep 27)
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Why Trust Can Feel So Hard: Attachment, Nervous System & Healing (Ep 26)
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Rewiring the Abandonment Wound: Attachment, Patterns & Healing (Ep 25)
📩 Ready to keep going? Join my free weekly e-newsletter where you’ll get further insights, reflections, and guidance delivered straight to your inbox each week. Just enter your email here. ⬇️In this episode of The Healing Childhood Trauma Podcast, we explore one of the deepest and most painful early wounds: abandonment.Whether it’s physical absence or emotional unavailability from caregivers, aban
Why Childhood Trauma Creates Shame - And How You Can Heal (Ep 24)
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Breaking Free From the Story Childhood Trauma Created (Ep 23)
📩 Ready to keep going? Join my free weekly e-newsletter where you’ll get further insights, reflections, and guidance delivered straight to your inbox each week. Just enter your email here. ⬇️In this episode of The Healing Childhood Trauma Podcast, we explore how early experiences form deep core beliefs and narratives around self-worth, identity, and relationships - often without us even realising
4 Myths That Might Stop You From Healing Childhood Trauma (Ep 22)
📩 Ready to keep going? Join my free weekly e-newsletter where you’ll get further insights, reflections, and guidance delivered straight to your inbox each week. Just enter your email here. ⬇️In this episode of the Healing Childhood Trauma Podcast, we explore 4 common misunderstandings and myths about childhood trauma that can quietly block healing.By the end of this episode you'll have a deeper un
3 Ways Childhood Trauma Affects How You See Yourself (Ep 21)
📩 Ready to keep going? Join my free weekly e-newsletter where you’ll get further insights, reflections, and guidance delivered straight to your inbox each week. Just enter your email here. ⬇️In this episode of The Healing Childhood Trauma Podcast, we explore how childhood trauma shapes your self-image, self-worth, and identity.If you’ve ever felt not good enough, too much, or unsure of who you rea
Can Childhood Trauma Really Change The Brain? Exploring Neuroscience and Healing (Ep 20)
📩 Ready to keep going? Join my free weekly e-newsletter where you’ll get further insights, reflections, and guidance delivered straight to your inbox each week. Just enter your email here. ⬇️In this episode of The Healing Childhood Trauma Podcast, we explore the neuroscience of childhood trauma, and explain how early life experiences can impact key areas of the brain, including the amygdala, hippo
Inner Child Work Explained: How to Heal Childhood Wounds (Ep 19)
📩 Ready to keep going? Join my free weekly e-newsletter where you’ll get further insights, reflections, and guidance delivered straight to your inbox each week. Just enter your email here. ⬇️In this episode of The Healing Childhood Trauma Podcast, we delve deep into inner child work and how it facilitates healing childhood trauma and wounds.Discover what inner child healing truly means from trauma
Childhood Neglect: Signs, Impact & How to Heal (Ep 18)
📩 Ready to keep going? Join my free weekly e-newsletter where you’ll get further insights, reflections, and guidance delivered straight to your inbox each week. Just enter your email here. ⬇️In this episode, of the Healing Childhood Trauma Podcast we explore childhood neglect - one of the most overlooked yet impactful forms of developmental trauma - and how unmet relational needs can shape emotion
How to Start Healing Childhood Trauma as an Adult: A Holistic Approach (Ep 17)
📩 Ready to keep going? Join my free weekly e-newsletter where you’ll get further insights, reflections, and guidance delivered straight to your inbox each week. Just enter your email here. ⬇️In this episode, of The Healing Childhood Trauma Podcast, we explore why trauma doesn’t live in just one place - and why healing often requires a more holistic, integrative approach.By the end of this episode,
5 Signs Childhood Trauma May Still Be Affecting Your Life (Ep 16)
📩 Ready to keep going? Join my free weekly e-newsletter where you’ll get further insights, reflections, and guidance delivered straight to your inbox each week. Just enter your email here. ⬇️In this episode of The Healing Childhood Trauma Podcast, we explore five subtle but powerful signs that unresolved childhood trauma may still be affecting your emotional wellbeing, relationships, and sense of
What Your Nervous System Wishes You Knew About Trauma Healing (Ep 15)
📩 Ready to keep going? Join my free weekly e-newsletter where you’ll get further insights, reflections, and guidance delivered straight to your inbox each week. Just enter your email here. ⬇️In this episode, we explore why slow and steady pacing in psychotherapy often leads to deeper, safer, and more lasting healing, and how moving too quickly can sometimes make things harder rather than easier.By
How Childhood Trauma Affects Adult Relationships: Attachment, Patterns & Healing (Ep 14)
📩 Ready to keep going? Join my free weekly e-newsletter where you’ll get further insights, reflections, and guidance delivered straight to your inbox each week. Just enter your email here. ⬇️In this episode, we explore how childhood trauma affects adult relationships, and why the patterns you struggle with in intimacy, friendship, and connection often didn’t start in the present.From attachment st
Breaking the Cycle: Healing the Patterns Childhood Trauma Created (Ep 13)
📩 Ready to keep going? Join my free weekly e-newsletter where you’ll get further insights, reflections, and guidance delivered straight to your inbox each week. Just enter your email here. ⬇️In this episode, we explore how childhood trauma creates deeply ingrained cycles of thoughts, emotions, and behaviours that can follow us into adulthood.By the end of this episode you'll be able to:Understand
The Beliefs You Didn’t Choose: How Early Experiences Shape Core Beliefs (Ep 12)
📩 Ready to keep going? Join my free weekly e-newsletter where you’ll get further insights, reflections, and guidance delivered straight to your inbox each week. Just enter your email here. ⬇️In this episode, we explore how the core beliefs we carry about ourselves in adulthood can often be formed in response to childhood trauma - not because they were true, but because they helped us survive.By th
The Hidden Cost of “I’m Fine” - Understanding Emotional Numbness After Childhood Trauma (Ep 11)
📩 Ready to keep going? Join my free weekly e-newsletter where you’ll get further insights, reflections, and guidance delivered straight to your inbox each week. Just enter your email here. ⬇️In this episode, we explore emotional numbness - the quiet, often unseen trauma response that can shape how we think, feel, and show up in the world.We break down how numbness forms, why it once protected you,
Ever Freeze and Not Know Why? The Hidden Trauma Response Nobody Talks About (Ep 10)
In this episode, we dive deep into one of the most misunderstood trauma responses: freeze. If you’ve ever gone blank in conflict, shut down in conversations, or felt disconnected from your own life, this episode will help you understand why.By the end of this episode, you’ll be able to:Clearly understand what the freeze response is and why your body uses itRecognise how freeze shows up in your day
5 Steps to Discover How Trauma Shapes You (Ep 09)
In this episode, we walk through the five key steps that help you finally understand how trauma has shaped you.By the end of this episode, you’ll be able to:Identify which type of trauma you’ve experiencedUnderstand the core wound that experience left in your sense of selfRecognise how trauma shows up in your body, emotions, and beliefsSpot the protective patterns that were once survival strategie
When Anger Is Really Trauma: 4 Steps for Healing (Ep 08)
In this episode, we explore anger as a trauma-based fight response, helping you understand why it can feel so intense and how to begin working with it rather than against it.By the end of this episode, you’ll be able to:Understand the difference between everyday anger and a trauma-based fight responseRecognise how your body and nervous system communicate through angerIdentify the underlying wounds
From Survival to Regulation: Nervous System 101 (Ep 07)
In this episode, we dive into the fascinating world of the human nervous system and why our bodies sometimes overreact, get stuck in survival mode, and how trauma can shape our nervous system responses.By the end of this episode you'll be able to:Understand the basic structure and function of the human nervous system.Recognise how trauma can impact nervous system responses.Understand your personal
How Trauma Shapes Us - and What You Can Reclaim (Ep 06)
In this episode we explore how early relational trauma shapes our sense of self - and what we can reclaim as we begin to heal.We dive into how protective adaptations like people-pleasing, perfectionism, withdrawal, or over-achieving often feel like “who we are,” and how to start reconnecting with the authentic self beneath the layers of survival.Alec also shares practical insights from therapy, in
From Contraction to Expansion – Signs You’re Healing (Ep 05)
In this episode, we explore what it means to move from contraction to expansion after relational trauma.By the end of this episode, you’ll know:How relational trauma can show up as contraction in your body, emotions, and relationships - from slumped posture to emotional withdrawal.What contraction looks like in everyday life and why it’s often a protective response.How small, embodied moments of e
Connection or Protection: What’s Driving Your Relationships? (Ep 04)
In this episode, we explore one of the deepest dilemmas many of us face after relational trauma:How do we form meaningful connection with others - when parts of ourselves are still protecting us from getting hurt?You’ll walk away with:A clearer understanding of why you relate the way you do.Insight into your own protector parts and what they might be trying to keep you safe from.And a practical he
Why Trauma Isn’t Just About Big Events (Ep 03)
In this episode, we’re breaking down a common misconception about trauma - that it only “counts” if it’s something dramatic or extreme. By the end of this episode you'll:Know the difference between Big T and little t traumaUnderstand how the more subtle, everyday experiences - like emotional neglect or inconsistency - can quietly shape the way we see ourselves and relate to others. Understand how
What Is Relational Trauma - And How Does It Show Up In Your Life? (Ep 02)
In this foundational episode, we unpack one of the most important questions at the heart of this series: What is relational trauma?By the end of this episode, you’ll understand:The difference between relational trauma, developmental trauma, and attachment traumaWhere and how relational trauma often develops - from families to adult relationships and workplacesThe common signs and symptoms that may
Welcome Episode (Ep 01)
Episode 1: Welcome to Healing Relational TraumaIn this very first episode of Healing Relational Trauma, host Alec Williams, a psychotherapist and relational trauma specialist based in London, shares the inspiration behind the podcast and what you can expect from the journey ahead.You'll get a sense of why he created this podcast - to explore what it means to heal, connect, and live more fully afte
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