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127. Enlightenment is Not a Treatment Goal (with Dr. Jim Jobin)

Very Bad Therapy

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The Importance of Re-Experiencing Past Pain

The therapist would talk about the emotion that I was bringing in and speak about that being like I had a little girl inside that was really upset. So we would literally sit in session and I would close my eyes and he would guide me towards that pain with the belief that if we went enough, if we went deeply enough into that pain, it would eventually. It was like he felt that the only way to get through the pain and the suffering was to go into it so deeply that that cleared it.

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