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When being the strong one becomes a prison

Everyone tells me how strong I am for surviving my childhood but I am tired of being strong and I want to fall apart but I do not know how.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Survival strategies that once protected you can become barriers to your own healing.

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“Where Are You with Healing from a difficult childhood?”

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