Even the best families slip up or still have their own trauma they’re dealing with and healing from themselves.  Family is the heart of most of our childhood trauma. Your parents passed down coping mechanisms and traumas that were passed down from their parents. Many of us pass down those things to the next generation and never realize it. It’s as children that we’re exposed to abuse, abandonment, parentification, manipulation and other traumas for the first time.

Many of us will make an attempt at showing compassion. But you know the one person many people rarely, if ever, do that for? Themselves.

The mind, emotions, and the body are more connected than most of us realize. They can blend together and affect our body through the...