when my therapist said it like that she meant that it was gonig to take a long time of slowing working our way through the surface of what I already remember and on down deeper into uncovering the repressed memories that I could not remember. It took many years and it took alot of co-operation on my part of being willing to do anything that my therapist suggested in ways that would help those repressed memories to come to the surface where I could work them out without dissociating.