Something happened that shouldn’t have happened. Perhaps it happened when you were young, perhaps very young. You grew up, you had to do that, but now as an adult, there is a shadow, a ghost that haunts. You notice yourself, at times, acting out of sorts. Perhaps how you are in relationships is not how you want to be. Perhaps you notice you react more strongly to some situations than those around you. Perhaps it feels that, sometimes, you are not acting like yourself at all.
Something awful happened and perhaps you didn’t get over it. Perhaps you went around it instead. You cut yourself from what happened, locked it away and threw away the key. Or at least, you tried to. At the time, you had no choice. You did what you had to do with the tools you had. There’s no judgement in that. Or shame. But now it, whatever it is, has found a way out. The monster under the bed is making a noise.
But that monster is you. It’s who you were then and it’s everything that happened, then. You’ve hidden that person away and our job is to find them again, get to know who they are.
This will be scary. No doubt, you might be reading this and start to panic. You might notice yourself dismissing me or getting defensive.
