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Happiness vs. Pleasure: Healing the Brain After Complex Trauma

Pleasure, trauma, addiction, healing; this video explores how complex trauma rewires your brain to seek pleasure in unhealthy ways. Tim discusses the difference between fleeting dopamine highs and lasting happiness, and why healing means learning to meet your needs in grounded, healthy, relational ways.

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  • Breaking the Silence about Childhood Trauma
  • How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime
  • Physical Symptoms of Complex Trauma
  • Childhood trauma
  • When times are hard
  • ACE (Adverse Childhool Experience)
  • The Fear State
  • Find Your True Self
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    • Extreme Ownership
    • Find Your True Self
    • Breaking the Silence about Childhood Trauma
    • How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime
    • Ways Complex Trauma Impacts Your Brain & Body
    • Adult Children of Wounded Parents: Reclaiming Your Worth & Identity
  • How Does Trauma Affect the Brain?
  • Limbic System

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