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I also seem to have difficulty moving from one state to another when needed.... I know hypnosis if sometimes done to help isolate ego states. What else is done?

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post">I don't know how to move from one state to another, so you are ahead of me. But sometimes in therapy, we have talked to one of my little girl ego states, when she was being very prominent (over a year ago) due to recovery of memories. T seemed skilled at talking to her through me. So maybe your T has techniques. More recently, with my adult male ego state, I found him coming out strongly when I was writing an email to someone. He would type things using my hands. Also, I have some writings that really upset him and make him angry and I think I can trigger him into being by reading those writings. But now that I know how much they trigger him, I am reluctant to do that--it seems mean and hurtful.

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I also seem to have a childish state which... is not very productive and is creating a lot of turmoil for the overall system... this state needs to go.

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post">Maybe she needs some healing, McKell. Often, those younger ego states arise from trauma and need nurturing and rescuing. Maybe ask this one of yours what she needs? My T taught me specific "rescue" techniques for working with one of mine. We did a lot of healing with her over a year ago. Now I have some other younger ones manifesting, but we haven't gotten around to doing any healing yet. My little girl that we worked on healing back then isn't so prominent anymore. She doesn't come out. I haven't looked for her. If I looked, I might not find her, and then I would feel bad that through healing, I had made her go away. I want to think of her as a part of me always. Can you tell your T you want your younger state to go away and see where that leads?

I like hearing about your "Watcher", Perna, and your "Narrator", Kiya. And I love that he has a British accent. My adult male ego state has the role of protecting me. But I don't think of him as "the Protector." T asked me if he had a name and I didn't know. I didn't think to ask him last time we were talking. He came to me in a dream, recently, and I was surprised at how he looked. Although I hadn't seen him before, if you'd asked me to describe him based on his thoughts and voice, I would not have picked the image that appeared in my dream!