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Not Being Able to Talk About a Trauma

Victoria Ponte
4 min readJan 9, 2020

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If the basis of talk therapy is having the simple ability to talk, what happens when there is significant trauma before we have learned to speak? This happened to my son. It’s hard to know the exact impact, but I see an attunement to others in him I believe may be…

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Victoria Ponte

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