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Thank you! Trauma is difficult to talk about and you have brought in so much light in so few words. Showing us the meanings, sharing the feelings, walking us to the door where healing and forgiveness wait. It is a journey we individually have to take. Whole. Never broken. A body in a soul. Coming home. To Love. Bless you for being brave to lead and wise enough to let go. You make it better. 🙏❤️

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So thorough and enlightening. You are a find, indeed. I wonder, with your excellent examples here, if there is any way to go through life without trauma. Focusing only on all caps love: Every love story could become a grief story, don't you think? Grief for a loved one who has died is surely trauma and resilience has to be the answer though finding that is a hard journey, indeed.

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Profound Veronika, thank you! Personally, I include TV & movies within the 'vicarious trauma' category - it is truly incredible how desensitized humans have become via watching a seemingly continuing barrage of violence

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The journey is a long one -- but I note in myself there is a sense of "Who wants to know a story's end, or where a road will go?" (last line of Sheenagh Pugh's poem "What if This Road"). Strangely, resolving trauma feels more and more like a 'worthy endeavour' than a 'mere necessity'. Another insightful and intriguing posting in the world of Symbiopaedia 💜

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Feb 21Liked by Veronika Bond

Veronika, what a huge topic to take on. Thank you for the illumination. We are all wounded and I'm guessing our only job in life is to heal from those traumatic moments.

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I'm glad trauma is being recognized and dealt with, and hopefully a healthier and more caring society will be the result. It doesn't look like it now, but things can change.

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