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Healing the psyche, one stitch at a time

HOW DO we speak trauma? We know from medicine that people embody trauma, beyond words.

It shows up in our hearts and our blood pressure, our dreams and our nightmares; we pass it onto our children, and we work it through in arts, spirituality, counselling.

My work has focused on a burning question in South Africa: How did women survive, care for others, and live through the many traumas of apartheid?

I was interested in looking for ways to dismantle

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