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Trauma Recovery

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Trauma doesn’t only live in a memory. It can live in a child’s nervous system, turning everyday life into a constant scan for danger. I’m Kim Lee, a child and adolescent psychotherapist, and I close this series by focusing on recovery, how the mind heals, and why hope is a real clinical outcome rather than a platitude.

We start with the core idea that the brain is designed to “digest” emotional experience over time, softening intensity and filing an event into the past. Post-traumatic stress disorder can interrupt that process, leaving fear stuck in the alarm system even when…

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