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Originally Posted by Waterbear
"I struggled to contain my emotion when I experienced hurt or betrayal. I didn't understand that my brain interpreted rejection as a threat to life and that it would respond with volatility and fear as if I were being eaten by a lion. I saw my frantic, amber zone outbursts of fight and flight as indicative only of my badness and madness, not as desperate attempts to feel safe in an eternally abandonning world."
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Carolyn Spring is amazing isn’t she?! I read her work and feel like she has gone inside my head and put my feelings and thoughts on to paper.