by Cassie Connor cassieconnor.com One of the most common barriers to recovering from past traumas, in my experience working with people, is a denial of the impact our experiences have had on us. It is now well-known in the trauma world, that trauma is not what happens to us, but what happens within us as a result of what happens to us (see: Gabor Maté if this is something you’d like to explore in more depth). We may feel that what happened to us “wasn’t that bad”, other peopl

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