It may be with your leader or it may be with you. Keep lying down with it. If you do, truth always wins out in the end. A leader must earn trust at every turn with balanced, loving and accurate interventions as well as a willingness to be transparent in an appropriate way. Any leader who steers us away from a feeling and moves us toward the intellectual, puts me on guard instantly.
Constant explanations are a defense.
They hide deep unworked-through terror. Doing primal work alone, can lead to everlasting pain in some people. In others, it is a miracle of healing. This probably depends, like everything else does, on a combination of genetic endowment and how much warmth and support we received during our childhood alongside our hurts. Before I close this article about adding techniques to primal therapy, I want to requote a portion of my reply to an earlier writer about the use of exercises and tasks in this kind of work.