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Ellen Bass: Running from yourself

“Survivors are often good at both resolving and generating crisis. While this capacity to handle crisis can make you a good emergency room worker or ambulance driver, it can also be a way for you to keep yourself from feeling. If you are addicted to intensity and drama…you may be running from yourself.”

—Ellen Bass, The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse.


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