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Making Lemonade From Your Lemons

Trauma doesn’t have to hold you back

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Joe Gibson
Dec 02, 2021
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I’ve always been an introspective person; aware of my surroundings and my own mortality. My mother use to regularly have friends over for gatherings when I was younger and whilst my brother could be found upstairs playing games, I use to sit with them. My mum would explain to her friends how there was no worry over me being…

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