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The Roles People Get Stuck In After Trauma
This episode examines complex trauma beyond the usual focus on catastrophic events, tracing how chronic emotional misattunement, unmet developmental needs, and early relational adaptations shape the nervous system and adult identity. It connects addiction, overfunctioning, people-pleasing, burnout, and persistent dissatisfaction to survival strategies that once protected connection and safety. Trauma is framed not as pathology or weakness, but as intelligent adaptation under constraint—and as the hidden driver behind behaviors that are often praised rather than questioned.
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