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Under a Martian orange sky
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Touchbase
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Still under lockdown. Touching base with the podcast, stirring the pot.
- John John broke the power button on my computer so it’s at the tech support
- In a week it will be six months of the coronavirus shutdown
- Shout out to Brian and Katie
- Mom’s birthday today. Oysters and cake
- 4th week of school
- Backgammon
- The comic garage 10 comics a month 21.99
- Spanish posters, letters, numbers, colors, feelings
- Maps of the world
- English motivational kindness posters about being a buddy not a bully
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Compounded Trauma
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Compounded trauma is when things make us upset, because they remind us of traumatic situations that we’ve experienced before, causing us to relive them.
When I feel this way, naming the feelings I am having, and explicitly connecting them, can be a way to overcome them.
Thank you for tuning in to the What’s The Matter With Me? Podcast. This episode is about compounded trauma, reliving trauma, traumatic experiences that we’ve had, and just living and multiplying, compounding them, living them over and over again.
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