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by Dennis
Tue Nov 22, 2005 12:55 pm
Forum: Therapy & Healing
Topic: primal-box
Replies: 11
Views: 34993

To me the primal box is abusive and counter-productive. A person feels the need to scream out his or her pain but at the same time wants it regulated and muffled. Do we put screaming children also in boxes? It's been discussed before and some people claim not to want to upset any neighbor who might ...
by Dennis
Tue Nov 22, 2005 12:41 pm
Forum: Therapy & Healing
Topic: And so life goes on
Replies: 10
Views: 29842

Ellie van Winkle's former forum is indeed quite long. I haven't read everything either, about 70 percent, but it's mostly very interesting. If I recall well, but I haven't found the exact quote, she once wrote that a person shouldn't relive the original trauma because that would be too cruel to do a...
by Dennis
Tue Nov 22, 2005 12:37 pm
Forum: Therapy & Healing
Topic: And so life goes on
Replies: 10
Views: 29842

It probably depends on the age on which one starts dealing with Pain. The process of integration does end eventually. Ellie van Winkle gives it 3 intensive months and a year of ups and downs. But there are of course the defenses that differs from person to person. If one could recognize it as just a...
by Dennis
Tue Nov 22, 2005 12:31 pm
Forum: Therapy & Healing
Topic: And so life goes on
Replies: 10
Views: 29842

For me the word Primal has never been connected to a community. The desire to belong to a community could be connected to the desire belonging to a family, your family. But when we (meaning I and people who have read the primal-based books) start dealing with all this suppressed and repressed pain, ...