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Navigating Emotional Shutdown with Erika Straub

CPTSD Medicine Podcast

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The Importance of Intimacy in Relationship Healing

"I didn't realize how invulnerable I had made myself in my own protection from my own lived history," she says. "It was revolutionary for me to actually realize what the thing was that I was seeking for and the thing that I missed" intimacy is where we 'heal' when we lay down our defenses, Lina adds. We've learned all these ways to almost like reach for drugs instead of medicine, but if we can create that bridge back to intimacy, that's the medicine."

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