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When past trauma affects new relationships after therapy

I did EMDR for my divorce trauma and it helped but now I'm dating someone new and I keep waiting for him to hurt me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Healing the specific wound doesn't immediately reprogram the protective patterns that developed around it.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with EMDR and trauma processing?”

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