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Siegel’s Metaphor of the River to Describe the Trauma-Healing Journey

May 21, 2026 by glennergy

Dan Siegel used the metaphor of a river to describe what healing from trauma actually looks like — a slow, nonlinear process of learning to stay in the current, finding the channel where the water moves freely. Most of us have a bank we default to under pressure, a way the nervous system learned to … Read more

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