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As a complex trauma therapist who has dedicated the last 22 years of my career to studying childhood experiences, attachment issues, and relationship dynamics, I can say with 100% certainty that ✨ Underfunctioning is a relationship attachment strategy that has deep, deep roots that go far beyond you and their relationship with you. ✨ This way of relating was created decades before you came along. Yes, your Overfunctioning triggers their stuff (and vice versa). And, yes, your Overfunction...
Growth Isn’t it weird how you can experience situations throughout your life that are so heartbreaking or stressful that you can’t ever imagine being okay again? Then a few weeks, months, or even years later, you notice that the days go by without thinking about those times. You can laugh, you can smile, you can go about your day and realize that you’re so much stronger and happier than you thought you could be ever again. Those bad times might always be in your mind, in your memory, or in yo...