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Dr. Angela Solic Names The Abuse Without Bruises

Emily R. Parker·

The Still I Heal Project gives language to childhood emotional abuse and complex trauma. A child can learn fear in a quiet room. There may be no shouting, no visible injury, and no dramatic scene anyone else remembers. Yet something inside the child begins to organize their existence around survival. They study moods. They shrink