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Well, I don't know about you, but that was my first pandemic. It's hard now to imagine life without it having happened. I have learned so much about myself and the world. My personal and professional life have been permanently altered. I think maybe that's a little bit like any other kind of trauma we have survived. Terrifying experiences leave a mark. I can appreciate how much we would all like to believe this just isn't so, how seductive it is to think we should just let it go and move on. These strategies are great when they work, when painful experiences have been processed and integrated. Unfortunately, that's just not the way things usually play out. As a therapist, I see people who are working so hard to rise above the injuries they have sustained, that they end up blaming themselves for things that have happened to them. So we do the hard work together, to look at those seminal experiences, to try to understand how and why they could have happened, all while building skills to take care of ourselves and live fully in the here and now, in the post pandemic world.
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March 2024
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Tracy Bryce Farmer LCSW PC Hybrid Therapy
1020 SW Taylor, Suite 435, Portland, OR 97205 503-451-3267 [email protected]
1020 SW Taylor, Suite 435, Portland, OR 97205 503-451-3267 [email protected]