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Mar 2023
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Can anything be trauma? Exploring "Not e...

Mindfully Healing
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In this bonus episode, Micheline Maalouf and Nadia Addesi explore the ways in which the phrase "not everything is trauma" can be harmful to those who have experienced trauma.

We have been seeing a lot of this going around social media and decided to explore it ourselves and have a conversation to help answer this question:

Discussing this from a systemic and multicultural perspective.

Exploring how saying "not everything is a trauma response" be harmful?

Discussing comparative suffering and how it harmful, especially to the BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities


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