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When partners' healing journeys conflict with each other

My romantic partner and I are both trying to heal from trauma but our healing processes trigger each other in ways that make us both feel unsafe. We love each other and we both want to grow but we can't figure out how to give each other what we need without losing ourselves.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

You're discovering that individual healing and relational healing don't always align, and that loving someone doesn't automatically make you good medicine for each other.

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