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Trauma Therapy - How to Write a Poem About Traumatic Trauma

Teacher in therapis jilly bolton believes therapeutic writing can help people discover and address deeply buried troma. Jilly tells the story of one student, a doctor, well call mark. He took a seminar she was leading for physicians. And this one young man shared with us a poem he'd written about how his brother had been run over ankild. I asked jilly if she'd read a bit of it to usthe grown ups stand around watching. The grown ups know what to do. Is that simon lying on the pavement? He's got blondy hair like simon's. A boy's been run over. Another kid says, is that simon lying...

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