I had a difficult childhood, and I find it hard to get over that. Can Buddhism help?

There are lots of people who have bad experiences in childhood, and that left strong and negative impression on their lives. Because of that, those people have to spend all of their lives in a very miserable, sad, negative way. There are many people who have this kind of life.

The practice and understanding of impermanence allows us to understand that we do not have to continue to allow these bad things to happen. 

We can start a new life, we can have a new light in our life. 

We do not need to be influenced and go on with the same storyline. We can start a new story.

When we meditate properly on impermanence, we see that every moment there is an opportunity to start again. It is always possible to begin in a new, positive way.

HH, 17^th Karmapa
Ogyen Trinley Dorje

From Kamashila
Short-Ngon-dro teaching
Germany, 2014