The childhood trauma we try to leave in the past

The Overwhelmed Brain

Paul Colaianni: Emotional Abuse and Relationship Expert

Education, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.5 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

If returning to your childhood hometown stirs up memories you'd rather leave behind, does that mean you're not ready to face them? I'll dive into this area with a heartfelt question from someone seeking closure from past trauma, wondering if revisiting their roots could be the key to healing and rediscovering their lost self.

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0:00.0	These are my personal opinions.
0:01.7	Always seek a professional when you're making choices about your mental health and well-being.
0:11.0	Thanks for joining me for another episode.
0:14.0	Welcome to the show.
0:15.2	I almost said love and abuse.
0:16.9	My other podcast is called Love and Abuse.
0:19.6	But you are at the overwhelmed brain in case you
0:22.3	need to get a reminder.
0:25.2	Let's see if I can answer this question that came in to me.
0:28.6	This is somebody who said, I've been listening to your podcast off and on over the years,
0:33.7	and I've made plans for over a year now to return to my childhood hometown.
0:39.2	My childhood trauma started when I was about five, and I was sexually abused by an older sibling
0:45.9	who was 12 at the time. I buried the majority of what happened to me deep inside, leaving it
0:53.2	to fester as I stuffed down even more abuse from others as I grew up.
0:59.0	Those memories have slowly been turning up in the past 40 years or 40 plus years now.
1:05.0	I'm in my 70s.
1:07.3	Are my memories of what happened to me at five keeping me from returning to my hometown?
1:13.7	So my question is, along with that other question, when I find the strength to go back to my childhood hometown,
1:20.6	will those memories be less of an issue in order for me to move on even as old as I am?
1:27.2	Also, will I find the me I left behind back then
1:31.7	in the 80s when I moved out of the second home my parents raised their three children in?
1:38.8	I'm the youngest. I lost myself somewhere growing up with this secret I had.
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