Overview

The Children's Bill of Rights outlines ten essential rights that every child needs for healthy development — from the right to feel safe and have basic needs met, to the right to be a child and not a pseudo-adult. This course uses those ten rights as a framework for understanding what healthy childhood actually looks like, and more importantly, how your own upbringing may have fallen short. Through a guided video and workbook, you'll explore each right in detail, reflect on specific examples from your childhood, and trace how those gaps still show up in your adult life.

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Patrick uses this workbook at the beginning of his childhood trauma groups to help clients gain deep insight and put their own stories together — often for the first time. The guided writing exercises ask you to identify childhood examples for each right alongside the adulthood triggers they connect to, creating a clear map between what was missing in your development and what you struggle with today. This work supports healthy grief, reduces confusion about what's normal, and builds the kind of self-understanding that general talk therapy often avoids.

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