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Why your body holds trauma even after years of therapy

I have been in therapy for eight years talking about my childhood but I still flinch when my husband raises his voice even though he has never hurt me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Intellectual understanding of childhood wounds does not automatically heal the somatic imprints stored in the nervous system.

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