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When losing a public figure triggers private trauma

The celebrity chef who died was the only person who made cooking feel safe after my mother's abuse and now I cannot go into my kitchen

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Public deaths can shatter the fragile scaffolding we built around our own unhealed wounds.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Collective grief — mourning public figures and tragedies?”

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