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When fear of repeating cycles prevents you from living

I am afraid to have children because I do not trust that I will not become my mother, even though I have spent twenty years in therapy trying to heal from her.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The terror of perpetuating childhood wounds can become so powerful that it forecloses possibilities for creating new, healthier patterns.

Ideas that help explain it
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