the struggle continues
“Emily made a symbolic three-headed “monster” out of clothes and things around the house and wrote a letter to the three men who had hurt her. We took her “monster” out to the wilderness and she read her letter and put it in the monster’s hand. Emily then destroyed the monster and left it in the woods to establish that the monster was in the past and she was done carrying it with her in the present. Emily credits this event for putting lasting closure on her post-traumatic distress.”
— “Neurological Approaches with Abuse and Trauma Victims” (via loneberry)
(via porpentine)
saudade.
