The Dance of Wounded Souls about True self-worth. The goal of this dance of Recovery is integration and balance. That means celebrating being a tree while also glorying in being a part of the forest. Emotional incest from either parent is devastating to the child's ability to be able to set boundaries and take care of getting their own needs met when they become an adult. Emotional Defenses - A column entitled The Journey to the Emotional Frontier Within about some common emotional defense mechanisms.
Emotions are energy.
Actual physical energy that is manifested in our bodies. Emotions are not thoughts - they do not exist in our mind. Emotional Defenses 2 - Further Journeys to the Emotional Frontier Within, a column about the emotional defense mechanism of story telling. Perhaps the most common story telling diversion is to get very involved in the details of the story 'she said. . . We often create self-fulfilling prophecies this way.