Last night I dreamed that I was at my grandparents home from many years ago and none of the family members I grew up with recognized me. They didn’t even remember that I ever existed and they treated me like I was an annoying outsider. I kept trying to explain who I was and gain acceptance but they wanted me to leave.

For the past few months I’ve been struggling with facing some harsh realities about my life... myself, family, friends... all relationships, even with coworkers... I have been feeling overwhelmed with emotion and trying to figure out how to face it all. I have been feeling lost and hopeless.

Do you think my dream is a way of my subconscious working through my feelings in a constructive way? I woke up feeling devastated. My counselor says I will need to face and feel my emotions before I can ever move on and I don’t know how to do that. I try to think and rationalize my way through everything instead... and here I am all these years later struggling with a lifetime of unresolved emotions and issues.