They say “no one escapes childhood unscathed”, meaning no one survives growing up without some hurt and disappointment.  There is no parent who could meet every single need of their child.  If they were that great, we could never muster the independence to leave them!   But some hurts and breaks from childhood generate intense emotions, and unless we process these emotions at the time the trauma occurs, they become stuck in our mind and body. Instead of healing from the wounding event, the trauma stays in our body as energy in our unconscious, affecting our life until we uncover it and process it out. The healthy flow and processing of distressing emotions, such as anger, sadness, shame, and fear, is essential to healing from childhood trauma as an adult.  And this is what therapy helps with.