Sit with unhealed pain?

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Hello everybody.I explained how we all carry unhealed pain, which can and will be ignited at any time. As therapists, we must help ourpatients learn to sit with their pain, and our own capacity to sit with pain can further help our patients. While we are wired to run from pain and sitting with it feels counterintuitive, being present with our pain and knowing how to manage it are the behaviors we need to model. This is an important resource for all of us, as therapists, patients, and parents.I don't know exactly what sitting with unhealed pain mean.Does it mean to confront?And I don't know what ' this' refers to.I really appreciate you for your help.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Jamal 1315I don't know exactly what sitting with unhealed pain means.

Nor do I or anybody else outside the writer's mind. We can only guess. I suppose she is contrasting running with sitting. We figuratively run from pain, and we must learn to figuratively sit with it, to confront it, as you say. I always thought we were supposed to lie on a couch.

Jamal 1315And I don't know what ' this' refers to.

It refers to what the writer was thinking it referred to when she wrote that. "This" is all the stuff in the paragraph, but I don't see how it can be a resource. I get the gist, but a resource is something you draw on, and a modelled behavior doesn't qualify in my book. But this is her book.

This writer is so far up her own lower alimentary canal that you're going to have to read her lightly. Just read for content the best you can, and then find some professionally edited fiction to cleanse your palate. Don't go looking for grammar or idiom here. She is so well educated that she doesn't need an editor, apparently.

Clive · Answer

I don't know exactly what sitting with unhealed pain mean.

Does it mean to confront? I

I haven't encountered this phrase before. It sounds to me like the writer means eg endure or accept or live with.

I don't know what ' this' refers to. It's not a clearly written sentence, but my guess is that 'this' refers to being present with our pain and knowing how to manage it.

Clive

AlpheccaStars · Answer

When you make a literary post such as this one, please cite the source (title and author). It will help us to make a more reasoned comment or interpretation. In this case is it: The Girl in the Red Boots: Making Peace with My Mother By Judith Ruskay Rabinor?

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