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How trauma responses interfere with traditional healing practices

I finally got invited to ceremony after years of healing trauma, but when I got there I had a panic attack from being in a dark enclosed space and now I feel like I failed some spiritual test.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Psychological wounds can create barriers to accessing the very spiritual practices designed to heal them.

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