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There Is Always Trauma in the Room

By Sharon Salzberg — 2009

I’ve done a little bit of work with soldiers returning from Iraq and have worked with domestic violence shelter workers on issues of vicarious trauma. I’ve also found in teaching the diverse groups who come for meditation guidance that, as someone once said to me, “There is always trauma in the room.”

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Post-Traumatic Stress (PTSD)