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Is your past getting in the way of your present?
Do you…
experience anxiety/depression at times when everything on the outside seems fine?
struggle with intimate relationships?
feel that there’s something wrong or bad about you?
find yourself repeating the same self-destructive behaviors?
come from a family where there was substance abuse and/or mental illness?
feel triggered by noise?
have trouble enjoying life?
find your mind disconnecting from what is happening in the moment?
You may be experiencing symptoms of acute stress or trauma. Children who grow up in stressful environments sometimes develop survival mechanisms that no longer serve them as adults. You can learn more about how stress and trauma lodge in the body by reading this interview with Dutch psychiatrist, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk.