Trauma
Can You Heal a Traumatic Past?

Can You Heal a Traumatic Past?

The Past Never Lasts: Changing the Past from the Future “The past never lasts”. Such was the slogan posted on a colleagues’ bulletin board, when I worked in a treatment center for traumatized adolescents. My colleague used it to remind her young clients that things...

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Why You Shouldn’t Avoid Your Painful Past…

Why You Shouldn’t Avoid Your Painful Past…

The title of my blog post this week contains one of the essential insights of my work as a psychologist. Too many people spend their lives leaving places they have never actually arrived at. A person who had a traumatic childhood might say they would rather just...

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