Posted by daisym on August 13, 2005, at 23:04:28
In reply to Failure/Inner Child Work, posted by fairywings on August 13, 2005, at 20:42:52
I'm sorry things with the therapist didn't work out. I know you tried to make it work. Were the questions he was asking too hard, asked too soon, or just off base? This might help you understand why the book has caused such an intense reaction from you.
I haven't read the book, so I don't know what it might trigger. But it seems to me that memories ebb and flow, like when your siblings are around you remember more things from your childhood, when your college roommates are around, you think about college, etc. So reading the book has opened up this area of your life and you are revisiting it for a little while. My best guess is that unless there is trauma of some sort to be worked on at this age, when you visit the next set of memories, maybe at a 10 year old you, the 6 year old will receed.
I could be way off base, of course, because I don't know your childhood. I will say that being in parts and pieces is very disconcerting. If it hadn't happened to me I would never have believed how intense and real these younger parts are.
I hope the new therapist can help you sort some of this out.
Daisy
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