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99. Living With a Lifetime of Unresolved Stress | Christopher Lee Maher

Medicine Redefined

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The Cost of Self-Soothing

When you've been a lone wolf your whole life, there's no way to reach out for help. I was the one who learned to self-soothe myself. And when self-soothing is your strategy, it makes it difficult for you to invite people in because of your childhood trauma. So safer space is for me to process this on my own. But guess what? There's a cost. And the cost is your own sense of self. You're giving too much away. The universe is always conspiring to my benefit. What I needed was I was in a very intense car accident.

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