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How Weight Lifting Helped One Writer Work Through Her PTSD
By Maggie Mertens — 2021
Personal trainer and former competitive weight lifter Laura Khoudari discusses her research and her experience with strength training as an embodied movement practice that has helped her heal from her own trauma and help other trauma survivors.
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