Gifts from a Challenging Childhood

Do you feel like the pain of your past still shows up in your present life?
Do you sometimes overreact, feel overwhelmed, or wonder why you keep repeating old patterns?

If so, Gifts from a Challenging Childhood offers a clear, compassionate roadmap to healing the wounds that began in childhood.

When stressors of everyday life trigger big emotional reactions, it’s often a sign that something historical is being touched. As the saying goes, if it feels hysterical, it’s probably historical.

This book helps you uncover those deeper roots so you can finally understand, work with, and begin to heal them.

Drawing from Pia Mellody’s groundbreaking Model of Developmental Immaturity, author Jan Bergstrom guides you through the core issues that form in childhood and shows you how to transform them through daily, practical tools. You’ll learn how to build a Functional Adult Self capable of re-parenting your wounded parts with compassion, boundaries, and true wisdom.

This book will help you:

• Cultivate healthy self-esteem 
• Create healthy boundaries in relationships
• Strengthen your sense of self 
• Develop valuable self-care practices
• Foster interdependence and authenticity in your relationships

You’ll also:

• Gain clarity about your family-of-origin history
• Learn to re-parent your inner child and heal past trauma
• Discover how to speak your truth and have your own back
• Access downloadable exercises, charts, and tools to support your healing journey

Gifts from a Challenging Childhood has helped thousands of readers turn old wounds into wisdom and live with greater calm, confidence, and self-acceptance. With warmth and clarity, it invites you to do the same—to move from pain toward peace, one step at a time. Your healing matters. Start your journey today.