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The first stage. Recognition
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You can’t heal what you’re still calling “normal.” Recognition is the moment the fog lifts after an abusive relationship and you finally see the pattern for what it is, not what you hoped it would become. I’m Kim Lee, a child and adolescent psychotherapist, and I’m starting this final stretch of the series on recovery by slowing down and naming that first stage clearly, because it is often the hardest to tolerate and the most important to get right.
We talk about how abuse distorts relational reality from the inside, how manipulation can feel like contamination, and why…
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