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309: Trauma 💐 Plus OCD, grief and suncream with Dr MaryCatherine McDonald

Mental - The Podcast to Destigmatise Mental Health

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The Power of Storytelling

"I reached for trauma because I think unknowingly or at least unconsciously I had experienced that so many times in my whole life," she said. "You don't even necessarily know that you're telling yourself a story but when something traumatic happens it shatters the story that you didn't even realize was there" She says storytelling is important both for understanding our past and also for healing our way into the future. 'Being able to tell these stories is the only power that we have being able to assign meaning to the things that happen to us'

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