I am a Kingston based therapist who focuses on how adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) affect thought patterns and behaviours in adulthood. ACEs include any form of physical, sexual or emotional abuse. It also includes having a parent who had a diagnosed or undiagnosed mental health illness, if your parents were divorced, if they struggled with substance abuse or were incarcerated,

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What happened during your childhood is not your fault. If you felt invisible, like a pseudo-parent to you caregivers and/or siblings or felt as though, for whatever reason, you were always on-guard during your childhood, that shouldn't have happened to you. You didn't deserve it. 

 

The effects of ACEs are often felt long into adulthood and can have harmful impacts on your physical and mental health as well as impacting your relationships with others. 

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As an adult, you get to take control of who you are and who you want to be. Learning what your thought patterns are and why they were created is incredibly powerful in shifting your perspective on yourself, others, and the society you live in. 

 

Your childhood was largely out of your control, your adulthood is yours to create.