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Theme: the ghosts in my head : an exploration of a life of multiple selves.
Imagery: multiple shadows/ghosts and (missing) time.
- Early
- the ghost who saw snow (fred, the dog self)
- the imaginary cat
- the fortress under the bed
- dissociation and trauma
- Middle
- the yo-yo syndrome and life between 2 houses
- learning to make up for lost time / explaining the gaps
- lies I didn't know I was telling (the $20 bill)
- learning that I was different (my thoughts vs other peoples)
- the importance of names
- Transition
- healing and the continuum of dissociation
- befriending myselves
- the risk of trusting others with names / the risk of vulnerability
- the integration dilemma (death)
- letting go of a childhood
- Late
- life beyond multiplicity / life within multiplicity
- allowing myself to be wounded and well
- learning not to dissociate in the present
- embracing all of who I am
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