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Trauma: Understanding The Basics And How It Impacts Daily Life

I talk a lot about trauma and I’m not sure people understand why. Many of us think trauma doesn’t impact us because we believe trauma to be huge things like plane crashes, kidnapping, living through natural disasters. We proceed like this even though we have been impacted by trauma. In this post, first I’m going...
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I Gained Freedom By Leaning Into My Body’s Bracing

This is a personal account blog post. I hope it helps you. Bracing or tensing is something trauma survivors do without even noticing it. In fact, I lived braced for most of my life and didn’t know until the last 5 years when I worked with a practitioner who taught me how to feel my...
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How Your Unaddressed Trauma Hinders Your Communication

There’s a (big) space where trauma and communication intersect. It’s interesting because before now I never really thought about it, although it’s so obvious to me now. I’ve always considered communication [period]. And then I’ve considered trauma [period]. In recent years, since doing a lot of healing work, I’ve had some interesting experiences around this....
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