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When healing requires revisiting abandoned identity

My therapist keeps asking about my childhood trauma but I've built a good life and don't want to excavate what I've buried.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Therapeutic models that prioritize origin stories can conflict with self-constructed narratives built through deliberate forgetting.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Adopted identity — chosen and given?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.