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Originally Posted by 3rdTimesTheCharm
Instead, she didn't feel the pain that was caused by that relationship, she now feels the healing that has happened, after all these years.
Do you understand how she was able to reach this healing?
I have had my own internal shift in the past month or so, where the pain of my past has lost its grip on meHow did this happen?, and I can tell my story to others (mostly my T, but also select wonderful people in my life) without being broken by it. I can manage the emotions that my story evokes in me without being lost in the chaos that used to accompany the story. And without being detached from my emotions or my story. How is it to not be detached from emotions? There must be levels of detachment.
15 years ago, I left therapy and thought I was done with my past. How do we know if we're done with the past or we've buried or suppressed it? II
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It's my ongoing question - how to know for sure if you're healed or if stuff has been buried only to appear later in an explosive way? I had thought in years past that I had resolved some issues but they came roaring back unexpectedly.
And 2nd question, how to get beyond old stuff?
But, it's great for you that you recognize such progress. Congrats!