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The Submit Response - Why Some of Us Learned to Survive by Disappearing
Part 5 of The Fragmented Self: The gentle awakening from invisibility
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The Freeze Response - Why Your Body's "Failure" Was Actually Wisdom
Part 4 of Fragmented Self: How the freeze response paralyzes through terror. Learn to transform hypervigilant stillness into conscious presence.
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The Flight Response: Why We Run from What We Need Most
Part 3 of the series on Trauma Defenses: How the flight response escapes through avoidance. Learn to transform compulsive running into conscious choice.
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The Fight Response - Guardian of Boundaries, Builder of Walls
Fragmented Self Part 2: Learning to honor our anger instead of letting it dominate us
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The Fragmented Self: How Trauma Creates Parts and Why Integration Heals
Part 1 of 6: We all have parts, but in trauma survivors those parts are tightly compartmentalized.
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What's the Difference Between BPD, PTSD, Bipolar and Autism?
The problem with diagnosis is it only captures a small piece of the picture
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Sexual Abuse: Why You Can’t “Just Get Over It”
Understanding why trauma lingers and how true healing speaks to every part of you
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Breaking the Chains of Trauma
Strategies for Healing and Growth
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From Suffering to Seeking: Origin Story of the Wounded Healer
How does a person become a therapist after they have experienced trauma? Mary is just such a person and this is her origin story.
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