{"id":1333,"date":"2025-11-25T09:37:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T09:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mindfulsolutionswa.com\/faqs\/?p=1333"},"modified":"2025-11-25T09:37:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T09:37:42","slug":"what-are-the-8-childhood-traumas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindfulsolutionswa.com\/faqs\/what-are-the-8-childhood-traumas\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the 8 childhood traumas?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The \u201c8 childhood traumas\u201d usually refer to the expanded list of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) used in trauma research after the original 1998 CDC-Kaiser study. While the original study identified 10 ACEs, many therapists, coaches, and mental health sites now highlight these 8 most commonly discussed categories:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Physical abuse \u2013 Being hit, kicked, or physically harmed by a parent\/caregiver.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sexual abuse \u2013 Any sexual contact or exploitation by an adult or older person.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Emotional abuse \u2013 Constant criticism, humiliation, threats, or rejection.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Physical neglect \u2013 Failure to provide food, shelter, clothing, or medical care.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Emotional neglect \u2013 Lack of love, support, or emotional responsiveness (often called \u201cchildhood emotional neglect\u201d by Dr. Jonice Webb).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Household domestic violence \u2013 Witnessing a parent being abused or threatened.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Household substance abuse \u2013 Living with a parent or caregiver who abused alcohol or drugs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Parental separation\/divorce or incarceration \u2013 Losing a parent to divorce, abandonment, or prison.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>These 8 traumas (sometimes grouped differently from the original 10) are strongly linked to long-term health issues like depression, anxiety, heart disease, addiction, and even autoimmune disorders. The higher your ACE score (0\u20138), the greater the risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Healing is absolutely possible. Therapies like EMDR, somatic experiencing, IFS (Internal Family Systems), and trauma-informed coaching help thousands of adults break the cycle every year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you recognize several of these in your<a href=\"https:\/\/roots-recovery.com\/what-are-the-13-types-of-childhood-trauma-and-why-you-should-know-it\/\"> childhood<\/a>, you\u2019re not alone and you\u2019re not broken. Understanding your ACEs is the first step toward recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201c8 childhood traumas\u201d usually refer to the expanded list of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) used in trauma research after the original 1998 CDC-Kaiser study. While the original study identified 10 ACEs, many therapists, coaches, and mental health sites now highlight these 8 most commonly discussed categories: These 8 traumas (sometimes grouped differently from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindfulsolutionswa.com\/faqs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindfulsolutionswa.com\/faqs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindfulsolutionswa.com\/faqs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindfulsolutionswa.com\/faqs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindfulsolutionswa.com\/faqs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mindfulsolutionswa.com\/faqs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1334,"href":"https:\/\/mindfulsolutionswa.com\/faqs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions\/1334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindfulsolutionswa.com\/faqs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindfulsolutionswa.com\/faqs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindfulsolutionswa.com\/faqs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}