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Dating with sexual trauma

Dating with sexual trauma

We can’t change our past but we can change our future

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Jessica Rose Williams
Feb 20, 2024
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‘When a person experiences trauma, it’s like someone snuck into the garden and ripped out all the plants she had been cultivating with such care and attention. There is rage. There is grief for the garden it was. And there is fear it will never grow back. But it will grow back. That’s what gardens do.’

- Emily Nagasaki, Come As You Are.

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