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All About Trauma with MaryCatherine McDonald

How To Human with Sam Lamott

CHAPTER

The Trauma Response Is Never Wrong

The subtitle of the book is the trauma response is never wrong. Sometimes what happens, especially when you've got developmental trauma or stuff has gotten written into your nervous system, what started out as adaptive becomes over time maladaptive. The science shows that where you are makes sense. It's a product of the part of your past you had no control or say over. And working through that rather than using it as an excuse to run is critically important for your healing.

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