The Importance of the Self in Trauma Recovery

The self is present in everyone but also that it is undamaged no matter how much trauma we've experienced. When the protective parts would relax back even a fraction this same presence would emerge, he says. iFS therapists are very gentle persistence and can have that knowing it's there so they keep helping them trust that it might be okay to experiment a little bit. The coming psychedelic revolution will allow people like Bessel to see the self when people take plant medicine somehow it disarms protectors so it becomes harder for people like him to deny that it's there.

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