You don’t repeat old pain because you’re broken, you repeat it because your nervous system is trying to resolve a wound it wasn’t safe enough to understand the first time.
Why You Reenact the Old Pain of Incest Trauma in New Love
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The Survival
Understanding the Responses to Incest Trauma: Fight, Flight, Flee, Fawn
Your trauma responses are not flaws, they are the brilliant survival codes your body created to protect you long before you had words for what was happening.
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