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What Positives Can Trauma Bring?

A positive look at growth beyond pain

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Joe Gibson
Dec 17, 2024
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A positive look at growth beyond pain

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I’ve been doing a lot of reflection on trauma recently.

Not all of it has been a good reflection, more of a “God I can’t believe I have to deal with this symptom, I wish I could just be “normal”.

Whatever “normal” is.

Which I guess is part of the “problem” with trauma: it separates …

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