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Skeksi, did you have to recall memories in extreme detail? Did you talk about situations that you anticipated being triggering for flashbacks (like things that hadn't happened, but could happen)? The reason I ask the latter *****TRIGGER****** is that I have a history of CSA, I am a virgin, and I worry that my first intimate encounter with a man as an adult with be triggering. I am about to start PE with my therapist.
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"Just as a jewel that has been buried in the earth for a million years is not discolored or harmed, in the same way this noble heart is not affected by all of our kicking and screaming. The jewel can be brought out into the light at any time, and it will glow as brilliantly as if nothing had ever happened. No matter how committed we are to unkindness, selfishness, or greed, the genuine heart of bodhichitta cannot be lost. It is here in all that lives, never marred and completely whole."
Pema Chodron
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