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How to Work With a Trauma Survivor
We cannot be at our best when we have those threats, those emotional threats pressing us. It's so much to hold both the complexity of your own shame, fear, story that you're diving into and that if you fuck up or mess up in any way, it'll all be for nothing. So first is your safety, right? Both people need to feel safe. And some of us have been for our whole life without feeling safe at all. We don't really understand that we're not feeling unsafe. But these understandings help the couple to be closer and not farther or not in fear with the other when he or she loses it or dissociates or freezes. That gives so