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When childhood fear lives in your adult body

Every time my husband raises his voice even slightly I am eight years old again hiding in the closet, and I hate that my father still controls my nervous system twenty-five years later.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Trauma embeds itself so deeply in the nervous system that the past becomes perpetually present.

Ideas that help explain it
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