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In Between Identities, Racial Trauma & Relationships with guest Therapist Raina LaGrand

Complex Trauma Recovery

CHAPTER

The Importance of Intimacy in Mental Health

A lot of times like we're existing in our little bubbles, whether that's by ourselves or maybe we just have a few people in our life. If you aren't also being in connection with other people having some level of intimacy with other people, then your body, your nervous system is just going to struggle. Like we really need other bodies to co-regulate and to be, for, you know, our nervous system to be in a state of regulation. And so I think the challenging thing is sometimes like people because of the way things are decontextualized, people don't again, right? They feel like what they're struggling with is this is a chemical thing that's

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