--- title: "7 Childhood Traumas Quotes by 7 authors" description: "Browse 7 Childhood Traumas quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Childhood Traumas sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/651/martin-seligman-5268_adult_if-the-point-of-the-inner-child-movement_345405.png" --- > [If the point of the inner-child movement is to cure adult problems, it doesn't work. Reliving childhood traumas gives you a nice…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-seligman/if-the-point-of-the-inner-child-movement-is-to-cure-adult-problems-it/) [Martin Seligman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-seligman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/651/martin-seligman-5268_adult_if-the-point-of-the-inner-child-movement_345405.png) > [“It made old childhood traumas rise up like bad Chinese food does the next day.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eli-easton/it-made-old-childhood-traumas-rise-up-like-bad-chinese-food-does-the/) [Eli Easton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eli-easton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a06/eli-easton-11480_childhood_it-made-old-childhood-traumas-rise-up-li_1599899.jpg) > [We're taught to find the antecedents to our adult failures in childhood traumas, and so we spend our lives looking bacwards and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heidi-julavits/we-re-taught-to-find-the-antecedents-to-our-adult-failures-in/) [Heidi Julavits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heidi-julavits/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc5/heidi-julavits-8173_adults_we-re-taught-to-find-the-antecedents-to_1693658.jpg) > [Here's something a little more personal: In my teens, I was having a hard time and ended up in a therapy group…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-van-den-berg/here-s-something-a-little-more-personal-in-my-teens-i-was-having-a/) [Laura van den Berg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-van-den-berg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba6/laura-van-den-berg-4314_childhood_here-s-something-a-little-more-personal_2462989.jpg) > [People who have had severe childhood traumas lack the ability to regulate emotions and, as a result, gravitate toward whatever primitive means…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/drew-pinsky/people-who-have-had-severe-childhood-traumas-lack-the-ability-to/) [Drew Pinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/drew-pinsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ba/drew-pinsky-4091_childhood_people-who-have-had-severe-childhood-tra_2673022.png) > [“Over centuries, organised perpetrator groups have observed and studied the way in which extreme childhood traumas, such as accidents, bereavement, war, natural…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alison-miller/over-centuries-organised-perpetrator-groups-have-observed-and-studied/) [Alison Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alison-miller/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a5a/alison-miller-20257_abuse_over-centuries-organised-perpetrator-gro_2831778.jpg) > [I want to poke holes in the erroneous beliefs about what fame provides. It won't raise your self-esteem, it won't create profound…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alanis-morissette/i-want-to-poke-holes-in-the-erroneous-beliefs-about-what-fame/) [Alanis Morissette](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alanis-morissette/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/edd/alanis-morissette-1074_about_i-want-to-poke-holes-in-the-erroneous-be_3063505.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/childhood-traumas/#itemlist", "name": "Childhood Traumas Quotes", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If the point of the inner-child movement is to cure adult problems, it doesn't work. Reliving childhood traumas gives you a nice afterglow, but it lasts only for hours or days. There is no evidence it changes adult problems.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Martin Seligman" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-seligman/if-the-point-of-the-inner-child-movement-is-to-cure-adult-problems-it/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/651/martin-seligman-5268_adult_if-the-point-of-the-inner-child-movement_345405.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/651/martin-seligman-5268_adult_if-the-point-of-the-inner-child-movement_345405.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/651/martin-seligman-5268_adult_if-the-point-of-the-inner-child-movement_345405.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If the point of the inner-child movement is to cure adult problems, it doesn't work. 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