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Jeffrey Strahl's avatar

Got to listen to Meredith Miller. WOW!! That was a great conversation (more a conversation than an interview, totally OK with me). Some key points i picked up

1. Good therapists teach clients to build self-trust. I sure needed it after my divorce. In fact, i still have trauma left from that, not so much the divorce and betrayal, but from my losing self-trust, over picking someone like her, and over not doing something about my being physically abused, trying to hold on to what i had, fearing being alone.

2. Good discussion of "A General Theory of Love," 2000 indeed, about this time of year back then i went to hear the authors do a reading at a bookstore. Poignant occasion, poignant reading. Even if the idea that we as mammals need love in a biological sense wasn't what i wanted to hear.

3. Excellent discussion of Stockholm Syndrome, aka trauma bonding, and gaslighiting, aka reality shifting. Both of these have been done to us in ample quantities, and it continues, including by people within the "health freedom" community, especially the leaders who push "engineered virus," "contagion," "pandemic." Most people seem eager to drink it up, the effects of trauma.

4. Great discussion of what to do from here, how people can only break the bonds which tie them to trauma sources if they do it themselves, what we can do to create the social environment for this to happen.

Will check out her web page. Thanks a lot for having her on.

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Janice Phillips's avatar

My worst trauma's have always been self-inflicted, it seems.

That's why my biggest job has been me.

I'm working very hard these last few years...and seeing some growth, some healing and I've even learned how to forgive. Me. It's been two steps forward and one step back, but progress, noticeable progress has been made! I'm determined to meet my second Saturn Return with my feet on the right(eous) path.

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