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Old Nov 25, 2014, 08:11 AM
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Is therapy always the answer to dealing with childhood trauma do you think? Are there other ways, other things that I could do that would help?

I am on a break from therapy after a pretty big rupture and I have found that in absence of therapy I am not nearly as worked up and anxious. Something about therapy and the attachment to my therapist really gets me worked up and scared. Sometimes I wonder what I'm putting myself through this for?And is therapy really the best way forward for me? Maybe I'm just not suited to it. Maybe I just need to find acceptance for the way I am and work within my limitations. Maybe I just need to accept that some damage was done and it shaped who I am today.

Sometimes it feels like I am constantly picking at a wound that needs to be left alone. I have been such a believer in therapy being the thing that's going to finally help me. And maybe if I stick at it, it will. But the turbulence of the process; the aching sadness and never ending highs and lows of it all just make me wonder if there's an alternative to therapy. I read somewhere today about yoga helping with trauma responses in the body. Ive read before other therapies like cranial sacral or other body therapies help too. I wonder if they can help on their own without also having therapy.

Anyone have any insight into finding healing through other methods?
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