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When dropping stories teaching conflicts with trauma integration needs

Our contemplative circle leader keeps saying we should drop our stories but my story about surviving abuse is not something I want to drop and I feel like my healing is being pathologized.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The instruction to transcend narrative identity is interfering with the necessary process of making meaning from survival experiences.

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