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Trauma is nothing more than being stuck in what you believe.

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Byron Katie
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
Author
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
Katie
Trauma
Uplifting
Stuck
Nothing
Believe

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