Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child is a compelling story of identity and childhood trauma. A closer investigation in the protagonist Bride’s journey to find herself enlightens upon her sorrows and survival. Throughout the novel, Bride’s traumatic experiences mold self-identification and interpersonal behaviors. Rooted in Morrison’s narrative structure and a wealth of symbolism, this article traces how the novel deals with race, beauty, social acceptance as pathology and how childhood trauma influences identity formation. When placed in the context of Morrison’s entire body of works, God Help the Child makes the reader realize that human experience is just so complex. Through the psychoanalytic theory, this study exposes that the trauma suffered by children is linked to identity formation and can be attended through with awareness in individual differences. Keywords: Identity, childhood, trauma, resilience, human experience.