Why Childhood Still Shapes Adult Relationships

Many adults do not struggle in relationships because they are broken. Often, they are responding from emotional templates that were formed much earlier in life.

Old survival strategies can become adult patterns

In childhood, we learn how to gain approval, avoid rejection, manage conflict and stay emotionally safe. These strategies may have helped us survive then, but they can become limiting in adulthood.

Healing often begins when we stop blaming ourselves and start understanding the story behind our reactions.

A Transactional Analysis perspective

Transactional Analysis helps us notice which ego state we are operating from: Parent, Adult or Child. When old wounds are triggered, we may respond from the Adapted Child rather than the grounded Adult.

The work of therapy is not to erase the past, but to create new choices in the present.