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Mar 2022
25m 20s

Trauma

Metro
About this episode
Fight, flight, freeze, fawn...

Dr Sarah Woodhouse is a Trauma Expert and Author of the book, You're Not Broken, looking into how people can work through their trauma. She chats to Ellen and Yvette about how to understand trauma, how it affects people's lives and how people can break free from it. 

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