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Originally Posted by Ygrec23
Okay. I'm in therapy. I've achieved some of what I think are pretty major insights. Now I'm led to understand that after insights comes "working through." Kind of chasing down all the ramified, neuron-like connections between the area affected by an insight and all the other parts of my thinking and feeling.
Well and good. But I very much want to conduct this "working through" in as energetic and concentrated a fashion as I used to get the insights. No nonsense. Complete seriousness. How does one do "working through" in that manner?
For example. I've realized that dear old Mom was a complete turkey at raising babies. With truly horrible effects. From the beginning until now, this instant, I'm terrified when dealing with people. Not you, you're safely far away. I can't see your faces or hear your voices. And that's very comforting indeed. But I'd like to be able not to see the people I meet IRL as terribly dangerous. And I understand "working through" is the way to get there.
Any tips?  |
there's certainly no magic bullet or mythical formula. what its going to take is practice. you have the insight, i'm assuming you have an idea of why you feel that way. so, now its time to make a conscious and concerted effort to do something different.
talk back to those thoughts that run through your head. the ones you KNOW are irrational. fight that instinct to run and hide. take a chance and see what happens. if you do what you always do, you'll get what you've always gotten.
