This Week's FSA Recovery Affirmation

Are unconscious Trauma Bonding dynamics negatively impacting your recovery and relationships today?

This week we’ll be focusing on how past (and/or current) Trauma Bonding dynamics can impact our ability to recover from Family Scapegoating Abuse (FSA).

Trauma bonding in the context of family abuse refers to the strong, often unhealthy emotional connections that form between victims and their abusers.

Trauma bonds typically develop as a result of a cycle of intense emotional highs and lows, where periods of abuse are interspersed with moments of affection, kindness, or reconciliation.

The abuser’s manipulative behaviors, combined with the child victim or adult child’s need for approval (and/or their fear of abandonment), can create a confusing attachment that makes it difficult for the victim to break free.