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Originally Posted by Squiggle328
Therapy is finally taking a turn for me. I feel that I am moving away from so much pain and frustration into a period of time where I learn to live my life today and plan for the future. I have no idea what this will be like.
How do you stop talking about the past and all the painful things in your life and move forward? We have talked about the past and pain so much that I don't know what to do with myself if we don't talk about it anymore.
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Good to see you back here, Squiggle!
I remember that place. "I can't believe I'm still paying to talk about my
mother! When do we get to talk about
me?"
It does seem such a waste to go over and over and over things that happened twenty, thirty, forty years ago.
I'm afraid the sad truth is, that if you don't talk about the past enough, it will always hold you back. The world if full of triggers and new pain is much harder to take if it drags in old pain as well.
Each time you examine the past, you see it from a stronger position. It gets easier.