Thank you for sharing this with us. I find that my ghosts tend to just want to be heard out, and I ask them what they *really* want, and most of the time it’s confirmation of some self-belief I haven’t fully processed. They pull me further into full integration of myself, even if I may never reach it.
Wow Marta, this is so beautifully written, so evocative. I know this place--or one a lot like it--well. One thing that helps me is writing it out--like this, though mine are way more "barfing it onto the page" and less the poetry of this piece. Another thing that helps is Internal Family Systems, which has given me a paradigm and tools for working with the ghosts. It has allowed me to befriend the ghosts. Not that they don't come around and take over sometimes still, but now I have a pretty reliable path back to a not-haunted state. Very much a skill I'm still learning but it does seem to get easier bit by bit.
Thank you for sharing this with us. I find that my ghosts tend to just want to be heard out, and I ask them what they *really* want, and most of the time it’s confirmation of some self-belief I haven’t fully processed. They pull me further into full integration of myself, even if I may never reach it.
I aspire to have that relationship with my ghosts! Right now my ghosts are barely dead and quite menacing, but each encounter feels like innoculation.
Wow Marta, this is so beautifully written, so evocative. I know this place--or one a lot like it--well. One thing that helps me is writing it out--like this, though mine are way more "barfing it onto the page" and less the poetry of this piece. Another thing that helps is Internal Family Systems, which has given me a paradigm and tools for working with the ghosts. It has allowed me to befriend the ghosts. Not that they don't come around and take over sometimes still, but now I have a pretty reliable path back to a not-haunted state. Very much a skill I'm still learning but it does seem to get easier bit by bit.
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