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Why family dynamics shift during trauma recovery

After six months of EMDR I can finally talk about my childhood without crying but now my family says I'm cold and different.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Your healing threatens the familiar system of roles and reactions that your family has organized around.

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