Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.
I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized.
If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.
I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
I haven't dated anyone in the ten years since we lost Steve just because I feel a connection still with Steve.
I'm drawn to raw material and raw emotions.
If you don't work through the things that haunt you early, they'll stay with you for the rest of your life.
There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.
'Closure' is the word used for a loss that's not acknowledged - and the habit this causes, physically and mentally, for anybody who is participating in that.