Most pop #psychology I skim, but this is a surprisingly good article on #individuation or #integration .
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Most pop #psychology I skim, but this is a surprisingly good article on #individuation or #integration . It has an unmentioned philosophical connection to killing the Buddha.
After almost 50 years, I did that late last year. It wasn't easy. As I told my psychologist, it had felt like an occasional pebble in the shoe that disappeared and came back as a boulder.
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Most pop #psychology I skim, but this is a surprisingly good article on #individuation or #integration . It has an unmentioned philosophical connection to killing the Buddha.
After almost 50 years, I did that late last year. It wasn't easy. As I told my psychologist, it had felt like an occasional pebble in the shoe that disappeared and came back as a boulder.
@knowprose Good share, thank you. I have been through many steps of this, and am currently going through another.
My family refuse to acknowledge that Covid is still dangerous, so I can’t visit them, and haven’t for years now. Being physically away from them is allowing me to finally drop away another remaining layer of trauma survival left over from childhood.
The reminder from this article that how I’m feeling now is not true depression, but rather a physical internal change happening as this layer of childhood protection falls away is what I needed to hear now.
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@knowprose Good share, thank you. I have been through many steps of this, and am currently going through another.
My family refuse to acknowledge that Covid is still dangerous, so I can’t visit them, and haven’t for years now. Being physically away from them is allowing me to finally drop away another remaining layer of trauma survival left over from childhood.
The reminder from this article that how I’m feeling now is not true depression, but rather a physical internal change happening as this layer of childhood protection falls away is what I needed to hear now.
@VeeRat I am glad you found it helpful, or at least reflecting some of what you are going through.
Hopefully you have someone to mirror as well. A therapist, or someone.
Everyone finds their own way.
I think a stable mirror from another person is necessary.For a long time, what I wrote in private was my mirror, but it was not enough for me.
It seems weird maybe, but I hope you enjoy the journey as much as the destination. The journey is the destination, imho.
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