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Why radical acceptance fails with developmental trauma

I can do radical acceptance about small things but I am thirty-five and still cannot accept that my childhood was traumatic without wanting to die.

Patan
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Some life experiences are so fundamentally violating that accepting their reality feels like spiritual suicide rather than healing.

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