The playing field wasn’t level to begin with: On childhood trauma and the fruitless comparison game. [anniewrightpsychotherapy.com]

I’ve wanted to write about this idea for a long time.

You see, in my work as a therapist and in my personal life, I watch something happen really, really often:

People who come from traumatic childhood backgrounds comparing themselves to peers who didn’t and beating themselves up for not being further ahead in life or at the same level as their peers.

This, obviously, is super painful for those who are comparing themselves to others and finding themselves lacking.

But it also doesn’t and cannot make sense for physiological and psychological reasons.

In today’s post, I want to tell you why this doesn’t make sense and share with you what kind of comparison (if any) is going to make more sense instead if you yourself come from a traumatic childhood background.

[To read the rest of this article by Annie Wright, click here.]

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