When your life falls apart, try picking up the pieces one by one making sure to keep them all.
For in life, as in art, it is only by mixing together the dark with the light that beauty emerges.
–ScrapLady Sharon Barnes
A child will integrate only those experiences that her primary care-givers can accept and hold, and will exclude from awareness those thoughts, feelings and behaviors that might disrupt her most crucial attachment relationships. These unacceptable experiences then remain undeveloped, unintegrated, and impossible to verbalize. They become … nearly unreachable places in the psyche that hold implicit experiences of relational trauma.
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