Codependence is a form of Delayed Stress Syndrome.
Instead of blood and death (although some do experience blood and death literally), what happened to us as children was spiritual death and emotional maiming, mental torture and physical violation. We were forced to grow up denying the reality of what was happening in our homes. We were forced to deny our feelings about what we were experiencing and seeing and sensing. We were forced to deny our selves. . . . .
The war we were born into, the battlefield each of us grew up in, was not in some foreign country against some identified “enemy” – it was in the “homes” which were supposed to be our safe haven with our parents whom we Loved and trusted to take care of us. It was not for a year or two or three – it was for sixteen or seventeen or eighteen years.
We experienced what is called “sanctuary trauma” – our safest place to be was not safe – and we experienced it on a daily basis for years and years. Some of the greatest damage was done to us in subtle ways on a daily basis because our sanctuary was a battlefield.
Quote from Codependence: by Robert Burney The Dance of Wounded Souls
Samantha offers inner child therapy to those who experienced trauma as children.
Inner child work is a way of healing the wounded child and promoting all the configurations of self to grow as one. It is a powerful and can be a very spiritual experience, cutting ties to the past but taking your learning to another level.