My outer wold came crashing down on me about 5 years ago and I split myself, while really experiencing and seeing it.

That brought everything from my earlier experiences into my real life. I feel like I should say, it brought all of the shattered pieces of me into my mind as fragmented pieces.

I started working then with my counselor and had no idea of dissociation or “pieces of me” in the beginning.

As we worked through it, I found those pieces and valued them for who they were and brought them to a safe place. I feel like I brought them to “me” and a place that they could be heard through me.

As this process happened with these pieces of me, I feel like they became a part of me.

Is that what you speak of as integration?