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Episode 038 - Living Above a Bar: A Dutch Medicine Woman’s Journey to Visibility and Sobriety
When the work of being seen becomes more important than the comfort of staying hidden
Inge van de Graaf lives above a bar. Not near one—above one. The ground floor of her home is De Amer, a cultural cafe and music venue with velvet curtains, a fully stocked bar, and decades of history. For a woman navigating sobriety, this might sound like an impossible setup. But for Inge, a trauma therapist and medicine woman from the Netherlands, it became the perfect teacher.
Inge spent most of her life terrified of being seen. She named her practice after a tree because it felt safer than using her own…
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