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Everything you’re about to read is based on my own experience. It may be a personal take on something, a way to cope, or a helpful anecdote. Read on and let me know if there’s anything you’d like me to write about.

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What lies beneath
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What lies beneath

Recently I wrote about my healing journey and the steps I’ve taken to overcome all of my trauma. While I know there are certain things that will never leave me, the more I process, the easier it gets. But what happens to those things that stay buried? And I’m not even talking about the vault memories that I have no access to. I mean those deep-rooted traumas that wouldn’t come up in a normal every day situation. When those get triggered, it’s a whole different ballgame.

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Healing journey
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Healing journey

“Healing is not linear…”

I’ve repeated this to myself so often over the last 5 years that it’s starting to lose it’s meaning a little bit. While I’ve always known that healing is, in fact, not linear, I never truly let myself live in that headspace. I would tell myself that every bad day was a setback and fall into an immediate downward spiral. Never good!

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