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Give yourself permission to let go of the past. Throw out anything that you don't need from the past. I find anything to do with my past, childhood memories, photo's, school reports, hospitalization records, Therapists notes - they're incredibly triggering. Thoughts of 'what a waste', 'what have I done with my life', 'why did it have to be me', 'when will this end', they all come flooding back.
But, the past is the past. You cannot change it, so there is nothing but lessons to be gained by living in it. Don't beat yourself about the head with it. No wet fish allowed ok! Once those lessons have been learned, leave the past behind you. There is a saying, all be it a very old saying, back from when the farmer walked behind the horse with his single plow attached, that 'he that looks behind should not plow the field'. In other words, make your present and future as productive as you can, and you can only do that by concentrating on what is now and what is in your future. Besides, who wants to drag around a closet full of skeletons?
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