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“In that moment, your body is brought back to the period in your life when silence did mean something was seriously wrong. It’s like your body is time-traveling back to that experience, remembering your fear and panic and what you needed to do to feel okay again (e.g., soothe the other person, fixate on what you did wrong, or fawn in some other way).”

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“I was an adult and I still was walking around with a constant feeling that I was about to get into trouble. I was an adult and I still assumed other people’s bad moods were automatically my fault, and that I was personally responsible for managing and fixing their emotions.”

‘For those who have kept peace but lost themselves’