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When healing professionals cannot heal themselves

I am a trauma therapist and I am good at holding space for others but I cannot seem to heal my own trauma and it is making me feel like a fraud.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Professional competence in guiding others does not automatically translate to self-healing capacity which requires different skills.

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