Tom Glaser
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And I talked about that in my own experience.
I just thought this is what people had.
I had no idea.
And so, yes, that's where education can really help.
And again, that validation, people feel, even though they may, because there is denial.
And by the way, that is, it's a survival experience.
Mechanism, right?
We have this wire deep within us so we can continue.
So, yes, we stuff it down like Barry was saying earlier, like like that volcano.
We stuff it down so we can survive.
That is not bad.
That's not wrong.
That is it's.
It's a good thing that we can survive, right?
The trouble is we overuse these techniques that work.
So if we're stuffing, stuffing, stuffing trauma, there's other things we end up stuffing too.
Like I kept myself from being as close to people as I could be.
possibly get to protect myself.
I'm not going to let you hurt me, so I'm going to be distant, right?
So then my relationships were not as full and complete as they could be.