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Playing with the Shadow: How Kink and Role Play Can Be Reparative

Playing with the Shadow: How Kink and Role Play Can Be Reparative

Playing with the Shadow: How Kink and Role Play Can Be Reparative

By Maya Attia, LMFT People usually ask me one question more than any other. They usually wait until the end of a session, when they have decided they trust me. It comes out quiet. *Is it strange that the thing that hurts is also the thing that heals me?* Or, more commonly, is this normal? Our culture has spent a long time holding kink at arm’s length. Something to explain. Something to defend. Something to recover from. It’s accompanied with the idea that there must be someth

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