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Dec 2023
22m 59s

How We Make Sense of Trauma

KINA PENELOPE
About this episode

In this episode I discuss how we make sense of trauma when it is happening, and how these meanings impact us long term. I discuss what it means to reprocess trauma by focusing on meanings and learnings instead of specific incidents and autobiographical memories. 


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