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When healing frameworks conflict with survival strategies

My therapist keeps suggesting I process my trauma but talking about it feels like picking at wounds that need to stay closed for me to function.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Western therapeutic models may not account for how some people need to compartmentalize pain to maintain daily functioning.

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