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Lizzie Finn
Lizzie Finn

Jan 5

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The Screenwriter’s Guide to Trauma and Childhood Wounds

In movies, the villain is a big, bad meanie with a badass name. In real life, your biggest foe is often a frightened, wounded, inner child who learned to protect herself by any means possible.

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“Our brains are wired for connection…

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Lizzie Finn

Lizzie Finn

I write, create, instruct. My curiosity is expansive — health, happiness, relationships, spirituality, TV/film, psychedelics, feminism, neuroscience, life.

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