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When couples with trauma histories trigger each other simultaneously

My partner and I both have trauma histories and when one of us gets triggered it usually sets off the other person and we end up in these destructive cycles where we're both activated at the same time. We want to break this pattern but we don't know how to hold space for each other when we're both drowning.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people are caught in reactive cycles where their individual healing needs clash with their capacity to support each other.

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