Peaches I really relate to what you wrote..

...fragmented is not necessarily a bad thing, to be a wounded child when with close friends, in control when not, I have found this to work for me..

authentic meaning yes, authentically always believing in God, always loving music, yet_....authentically knowing 'just the moment..' when to jump into the fragment that is wounded, the fragment that is in control..

with my patients at the hospital I _have to be in control....

yet with others that are not close friends (that includes family) I have to also be in control...

Time to be wounded? Yes when with close friends, time to cry, time to bawl, time to admit I need to walk around in the middle of dinner just because I have problems sitting still, Jen, Lia, Katelyn they know this about me and are ok with this trait of mine, accepting it..

................here's to our authentic selves......