Why can someone recognize a harmful pattern and still feel pulled toward it? Trauma Feels Like Chemistry examines how earlier experience, attachment, bodily response, spiritual meaning, hope, and relational intensity can become difficult to separate. Will Bourne offers readers a compassionate framework for distinguishing familiarity from safety, chemistry from compatibility, and attraction from assignment.
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Sex, Spirit & the Nervous System · Volume 3 of 5 · Catalog 43182
Trauma Feels Like Chemistry
Why Familiar Pain Can Feel Like Connection
Why can someone recognize a harmful pattern and still feel pulled toward it?
Bourne Again Living Library · Catalog 43182
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Why can someone recognize a harmful pattern and still feel pulled toward it? Trauma Feels Like Chemistry examines how earlier experience, attachment, bodily response, spiritual meaning, hope, and relational intensity can become difficult to separate. Will Bourne offers readers a compassionate framework for distinguishing familiarity from safety, chemistry from compatibility, and attraction from assignment. The goal is not suspicion of desire, but greater freedom in what happens next.
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- What do you mean by the title Trauma Feels Like Chemistry?
- Are you saying that intense attraction is evidence of trauma?
- How do you distinguish chemistry from compatibility?
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