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Discovery of Patriarchy Stress Disorder It was one of those aggravating arguments. My husband was not hearing me. He wasn't seeing me. He wasn't even looking at me. He was looking at the books lined up on my home office shelves. I was going on and on, exasperated. He was quiet. Which aggravated me even more. Then he turned around and said: "I find it fascinating. Here you have all these books on mindfulness, yoga, meditation, all this self-help... And you just can't help yourself.” It stopped me dead in my tracks. He was right. I couldn't help myself. Two graduate degrees in Psychology, decades on the personal development quest, years in therapy -- and I couldn't help myself. As I was catching my breath, I wondered: "Why? What's wrong with me? Why am I able to help my clients dramatically transform their lives, but I can’t help myself?” After taking a closer closer look at what I was doing for my clients that I wasn’t doing for myself, the answer popped up.   Trauma Because I understood that trauma was at the