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305: What if you were expected to do no harm?
Jan 23, 2024
An anonymous guest shares their experience of growing up in a family full of secrets and their own buried trauma. After finding passion in medicine, they face a dilemma that brings everything to the surface. Topics include family secrets, resilience, feeling unsafe, fulfillment in the medical field, and unveiling dark secrets.
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- Keeping secrets can have long-lasting negative effects on mental and physical well-being.
- Discovering hidden family members can have a profound impact on one's sense of identity and belonging.
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The Burden of Keeping Secrets
This podcast episode delves into the long-lasting impact of traumatic experiences and the weight of carrying secrets. The narrator highlights how keeping secrets can harm both the mind and body over time. They reflect on their own experience of hiding traumatic events, and the effects it has had on their life. The episode explores the struggle to reconcile the picture-perfect life presented to the world with the underlying dark secrets that linger beneath the surface.
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