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Why trauma therapy does not always address eating symptoms

I have been in therapy for three years talking about my childhood but I still cannot eat a bagel without having a panic attack.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Insight into origins does not automatically restore the nervous system's capacity for safe relationship with nourishment.

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