Broken Childhood - The path to Wholeness

Something underneath is driving the life you can't quite reach.

Most of us spent our childhoods adapting to rooms we did not choose. The strategies we built — vigilance, usefulness, withdrawal, performance — kept us alive. Decades later, those same adaptations may be running the life that has stopped feeling like ours.

You have probably tried to address it. You have read the books, attended the courses, perhaps even completed therapy. And still, the anxiety, the exhausted relationships, the flatness that success has not touched, the question that won't quite leave: is there a person underneath all this?

Broken Childhood traces the long aftermath of childhood trauma and the possibility of genuine repair. Drawing on more than thirty years of clinical practice and his own story, consultant psychotherapist Jimi Katsis maps a clear five-stage path:

• Recognition — seeing the trauma for what it is, including the kinds that did not look like trauma at the time
• Understanding — tracing how childhood experience shaped the beliefs, behaviours, and patterns of your adult life
• Acceptance — meeting reality without minimising, justifying, or trying to outthink it
• Healing — actively engaging with the work of repair, not waiting for it to happen to you
• Resilience — reclaiming the narrative, rebuilding a life that is no longer defined by what happened