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Building Trust & New Partner Nerves

Dates & Mates with Damona Hoffman

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Is This My Past Showing Up?

A lot of folks that I work with have significant trauma backgrounds. And so a lot of times it's hard to discern, okay, is this my past showing up or am I reading this situation correctly? So what I help folks do is to work on grounding themselves and looking at the facts. If you know you've got a traumatic past, I'm not suggesting that you go in on the first date and like spill your guts out. You might not feel comfortable doing that. But you also might want to let someone know like, hey, this is an area of sensitivity for me.

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