Psychology Today
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Tragedy, trauma, and grief can force us to question everything.
These experiences seem to rob us of a clear sense of self.
But the psyche is always leaning toward wholeness.
The psyche can organically move us from self to Self.
Sometimes we get slammed with life tragedy, trauma , or grief so difficult and so prolonged that we finally fall to our knees in surrender to, “I don’t even know who I am anymore.”
Whatever it is that we have always done to get by, to overcome, or maybe even to bypass, just isn’t working anymore. In whatever way we have seen ourselves, be it as a strong person, a “weird” person, a bad or good person, or any other of the many ways we can see ourselves, we are lost now, in a fog so impenetrable that we seem unavailable to ourselves.
Sorrow is thi
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