Here’s another good analogy I heard: If you think about emotion and trauma as energy, then burying it is like storing it as potential energy. Potential energy can’t be stored forever, no matter what you do. One way or another, it finds a way to manifest its kinetic state. With emotion, your body usually becomes the outlet.
2026-06-08 19:57:13
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Grace Wright :
Fellow therapist here…. Woah ….. 😳 I will be using this analogy
2026-06-09 14:01:05
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Puffynarwhal :
Just scroll. It hurts
2026-06-10 04:33:00
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Jorja :
Well, hate that.
2026-06-09 22:40:48
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Dog Mom :
Good God. I’m a former therapist myself and that just slapped me in the face.
2026-06-08 18:10:39
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dashyup :
Now I’m having emotions worrying about the emotions I have buried alive.
2026-06-09 02:24:45
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thequirkyqueertherawitch :
brings a whole new meaning to digging up the past
2026-06-09 09:49:57
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Starry 𓇳𓁦𓂓 𓇳𓍉𓈖 :
Look into somatic healing, that trauma lives in your nervous system and that reaction before your panic attack was the vagus nerve/gut/brain connection. Somatic healing works on all the things to clear it out of your system.
2026-06-09 04:53:01
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lightwell :
The interviewer is a master at active listening. His attuned "minimal encouragers"are next level.
2026-06-09 23:14:34
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🔵🖤😬🫣 :
Oh, oh…ouch.
2026-06-09 14:22:06
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aliciaarnold812 :
Body keeps score. Great book! My physical therapist actually helped heal my emotional wounds.
2026-06-10 02:02:44
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Marc-Anthony :
My face when I heard this
2026-06-09 22:25:05
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Mae_Rodriguez :
As someone with cptsd this makes more sense than I wish it did. That also explains part of how I know I'm going to experience a trigger even before the memory gets all the way to the surface.
2026-06-09 20:05:14
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Yenny :
so true
2026-06-10 04:22:31
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i_am_a_grownup :
Wait! Wait. Wait? The feeling you described as a panic attack onset….like high energy, heart elevated…..THAT is a panic attack? I have that frequently but just thought it was anxious. Yikes
2026-06-08 18:41:08
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user2268239390902 :
EMDR will free you from trauma.
2026-06-10 01:11:56
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stepherdoo :
I just started parts work. This makes me want to cry and frow up at the same time…
2026-06-09 23:27:23
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Brittany Squirrel :
Heyyyyy as a late diagnosed autistic, this doesn’t feel good 🙃
2026-06-10 00:41:58
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Yesenia Latina therapist CA :
Love this analogy. I use the haunted mansion analogy. There’s a bunch of ghosts that you stuff into the rooms and when you haven’t worked on those things you are stuck wandering the halls. Sometimes the ghosts come out randomly. After doing some work, you get to enjoy your mansion
2026-06-09 16:51:49
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Allison Walsh :
I literally said “oooooop” out loud… god damn
2026-06-10 01:38:22
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Carly :
I think you two might be allowed to have 🎤
2026-06-09 20:46:17
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Caledonia Habenschuss :
There’s a show called Aile (Turkish for Family), and one of the main characters is a therapist and she saw someone have a horrible anxiety panic of trying to bury her dress because of a really bad moment from her childhood and she was frantically digging in the ground and trying to cover up the old dress and the therapist touched her arm softly and said something along the lines of “Whether it’s a dress or a memory, when we bury something, we are just giving it a grave for us to visit.” And it gave me chills, because we memorialize those we lose by burying them and we naturally want to visit that place to feel close to them. Burying memories and feelings… it leaves an unintentional place that we will naturally be drawn to whether we like it or not which means it will always haunt us and no matter how hard we try those graves come with us wherever we go so it’s not like we can outrun it. We have to learn to let those feelings out so we don’t end up a graveyard of a person.
2026-06-09 14:19:08
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Diana D :
This hit so hard in my chest.
2026-06-10 00:20:47
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mlem :
this is why sitting with your emotions is such a tough thing to do. because where those emotions are it's a very uncomfortable place. at first. but it's the only way to help yourself. you have to willingly go to the deepest hole you have dug in there and sit there, for as ling as it takes. without expectations. be there. that's it. extraordinary things happen when we are not longer burried alive alone. extraordinary things happen when we no longer abandon. no parts left behind. no matter how deep I dug the hole, that's where ill be, because a part of me is still there and I refuse to abandon them there in solitude. if they can't rise, then I'll go down and stay there.
2026-06-09 03:14:30
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