We Don’t Have to Forget Our Past to Stop Living Inside It
Throughout this series, we’ve explored how our nervous systems learn to survive, how those survival strategies become identities, and how authorship allows us to choose what comes next. But before we can write a new chapter, we often have to organize the ones we’ve already lived.
One of the greatest misconceptions about healing is that it requires forgetting. People often believe that moving forward means closing the door on painful memories, pretending difficult experiences never happened, or somehow becoming unaffected by what they’ve lived through.
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