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Why individual healing cannot address collective wounds

My therapist keeps talking about healing trauma but she does not understand that the trauma is not just in my past it is in every interaction I have with this society.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

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Someone realizes that therapeutic frameworks fail to address ongoing systemic violence.

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