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The Importance of Being Present
Our job is to be present and close. That's what a good relationship is fully present. My mom was flat out emotionally abusive like severely. I'd only heard yelling like her is once in the whole time I spent those 30 years in the psychiatric hospital. And so my work in therapy was really getting reconnected again regulating the feelings and being fully present. They need you present while they build and struggle to paint against the injury that they've had. Not a rescuer because then they're permanently in need of rescuing. All right. Oh the side effect of that is you stop listening to your own emotions because you're busy looking out there. You start experiencing yourself through other people and your