December 7, 2023
Chapter 9: The fish finds water
Hitting bottom is jargon for the
moment when the pattern of
suffering reveals itself.
~ Stephen Cope
So we tend to be oblivious to how our family has shaped us.
On the other hand, if we’re in recovery from anything – anxiety or depression or addiction or bad relationships or some other emotional problem — sooner or later we begin to suspect that maybe we need to reexamine our family.
That we need to do what Freud originally defined as the goal of psychoanalysis: make the unconscious conscious.
So how do we do that?
How does the fish discover water?
We consciously turn our attention to what we have ignored, and we start asking higher level questions about it.
And a good question to start with is:
What’s my Plan A?
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