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Originally Posted by archipelago
Some people who write about this believe that all of us have mildly dissociated selves. That we are a collection of different selves, and some of these are not as acknowledged or accepted as others, sometimes because of trauma. These parts are felt as "not me" and when they come into awareness, it really turns things upside down.
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This.
A few years back I was learning to play tennis - something entirely new to me and I really had to push past some major walls. In the process I 'met' a very young part of me that I had not been previously aware of. It was a... Well, it was kind of an indescribable experience, very intense. It was the beginning of this journey that I'm on.
It was also how I started learning to self-comfort, even though I didn't like this part of me at first and tried my best to shut her up
. I've come a long way since then.