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307. Childhood Trauma, Marriage, and Making Friends | Dr. John Delony

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Changing Your Past, Owning Your Past - It's a Shape-Shifting Opportunity

The way I conceptualize it is that a story manifests itself in a personality, in a set of goals and a set of assumptions about the world. And if you have had terrible things happen to you in the past, then your body computes the present danger of the environment based on how many things have happened to you that are terrible in the past that aren't resolved. Those stories become the stories we tell ourselves, which as we all know in mental health professionals, shapes everything.

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