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A Little t Trauma Check-In
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"My childhood was fine. I had loving parents. Nothing really bad happened to me. So why do I still feel like something's off?"
If that's ever crossed your mind, you're not alone, and you're not wrong. Most of what shapes us as adults isn't one big, dramatic event. It's the small things that happened over and over: what got you praised, which feelings were safe to show, who you had to become to stay easy to love.
Psychologists call these Little T Traumas. They don't leave a mark anyone can point to, but they can shape how you move through adulthood just as much as anything bigger.
This isn't a diagnosis. It's twelve questions to help you notice what might still be running the show underneath.
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None of this needs a big, dramatic backstory to be real. Even the smallest, most repeated moments can shape a nervous system, especially if they happened while yours was still being built. That doesn't mean anything is broken. It means your inner child never got the chance to feel finished with it, and that's exactly where this work begins.
This is a reflection tool, not a clinical diagnosis. If you're in crisis or need support right now, please reach out to a licensed professional or a crisis line in your area.