Thanks, Poet, for your support and encouragement.

Thanks everyone for that too!!

Sannah, thanks for clarifying!

I'm trying to figure out the purpose of raising things in group and what value it has other than being a conversation starter, I guess. Perhaps the willingness, alone, to be vulnerable with a group of people, is a marker of growth - that I may not be ready for yet. Or, trying to figure out and ask for what I need from the group in order to feel safe enough to be vulnerable. Or, finding the courage to not be so secretive about my trauma, regardless of the feedback I get. And how that knowledge could be applied to my real life. I don't know.

Perhaps I'm spending too much time trying to analyze it....