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        🏥&nbsp; What it means to have experienced difficult or traumatic birth circumstances
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        <strong>Were the earliest moments of life marked by medical procedures, separation, or physical challenges?</strong>
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        Does this sound familiar?
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        💎 Medical procedures and hospital stays defined your childhood, making your body feel like territory others could invade without permission.<br><br>
        💎 As a child, pain, vulnerability, and helplessness became normalized experiences, teaching you early that your body could betray you.<br><br>
        💎 Your body holds memories of early medical procedures or physical challenges—responding with tension, shutdown or pain when you're touched, in medical settings, or during physical intimacy.
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        You may have developed a fractured relationship with your physical self, where your body feels like something that happens to you rather than something you inhabit with confidence. Early health challenges may have taught you to see your body as inherently fragile or flawed, requiring constant monitoring and medical intervention to function properly.
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        You may carry cellular memories of early trauma that surface during intimate moments, medical procedures, or times of physical vulnerability. The experience of being "different" from birth may have created a deep sense of not quite belonging in the world, oscillating between feeling defective and fiercely protective of what makes you unique.
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        💔&nbsp; The Core Wound
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        "You learned that your body could betray you, that you were inherently different or flawed, and that survival meant constant vigilance about your physical safety and worthiness to exist in the world."
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Tools & Learning

🏥13 Ways Difficult Or Traumatic Birth Trauma Affects Your Relationships

Acting Out for Love

Always Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop

Body That Doesn't Belong To You

Body That Remembers What You Forgot

Hair Trigger Alert

Hypnotized to Believe You're Damaged Goods

Same Dance, Different Partners

The Advocate

The Lightning Rod

The Love Earner

The Outsider

The Radar Always On

The Volcano