My Therapist Says

My Therapist Says There Are ‘Little T’ Traumas and ‘Big T’ Traumas

Excavating those ‘little t’ traumas has helped me chip away at the bigger ones

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When I first started going to therapy at 19, I had a pretty good idea of the traumas I wanted to excavate: divorce, parental addiction, eviction — the “big T” traumas…