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Originally Posted by feileacan
I think this method can be great for people who are receptive to it and who find it suitable. I don’t think it would be useful to force it on people who do not feel this approach is suitable for them. Forcing an unsuitable method does not help the therapeutic alliance and without it there’s no hope for any method to work.
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I do not know what is suitable for me. It feel so hokey. All of it. Session was labored today. Visualizing this fake group of saviors sitting with me in an imaginary place that he made think my younger part would want to be. I chose an enchanted forest sitting on the rocks by a babbling brook. Now this is where the younger part stays while my adult self does adult things that children have no place being part of. Ugh
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When a child’s emotional needs are not met and a child is repeatedly hurt and abused, this deeply and profoundly affects the child’s development. Wanting those unmet childhood needs in adulthood. Looking for safety, protection, being cherished and loved can often be normal unmet needs in childhood, and the survivor searches for these in other adults. This can be where survivors search for mother and father figures. Transference issues in counseling can occur and this is normal for childhood abuse survivors.
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