Re:parts in control and emdr

Thanks for the information/explanation. It really helped me to understand some of my therapist's questions. I know in the past couple of weeks I have moved from feeling that absolutely nothing is safe (including my therapist, her office, the view out the window!) to feeling that all the unsafe stuff is inside me. A neat trick. :) Feels better and more manageable this way. Because I've got lots of good stuff inside, too, so there's some balance & ability to titrate and contain stuff internally.

I was mortified to realize how different the "voice" in each of my posts last night was. I realized that what is going on inside me now is that lots of "happy" centered parts are "out", communicating with each other, ironing out differences. Some, yeah, are pretty superficial and in denial, and some are truly joyous -- I think the significant thing is that I am tolerating this "positive affect" at all.

My therapist said that processing introjects will be wonderful for me -- I tend to believe her. It was identifying the beliefs of an introject (or vice versa) that led to the "happiness" I am experiencing now. On that subject, all my "cranky" introjects have been pretty eager to give up their job duties and bad moods once they were treated respectfully and kindly. I imagine things will only get better (if more intense, as well) with emdr processing.

Thanks again. :)

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