How Healing Childhood Trauma Helps You Parent Differently
- Rose Hammon, LCSW
- Apr 25
- 2 min read
Updated: May 7
Do you ever worry that you’re going to repeat generational cycles with your children? You’re not alone and you might be right to worry? Longevity studies done in the UK show that at least 35-45% of parenting behaviors are passed from one generation to the next.
When you grow up in an environment where your emotional needs weren’t met — whether through chaos, neglect, or criticism — it can be hard to know what healthy parenting even looks like.
But here’s the good news: healing childhood trauma doesn’t just change your life. It changes the lives of your children, too.
When you begin to understand how your past shaped your nervous system, your triggers, and your coping mechanisms, you stop parenting from survival mode. You start parenting from presence. Instead of reacting from a place of fear or frustration, you learn to respond with intention. You give your child what you didn’t receive — safety, emotional attunement, and unconditional support.
You also start to notice patterns — the critical voice, the urge to control, the emotional shutdown — and realize: this isn’t mine. This is inherited. And I get to choose something different.
Healing doesn’t mean being a perfect parent. It means being a conscious one. It means apologizing when you mess up. It means modeling repair. It means creating a home where your child doesn’t have to unlearn their childhood just to survive.
And that? That’s how generational cycles break.
If you're ready to start doing things differently, I’d love to walk alongside you.
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Rose Hammon, LCSW
New Heights Therapy
Las Vegas, NV
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