What’s in the Danger Box
We talked about how opening the danger box was the way to learn how to deal with our emotions.
I want to talk about what else is in the danger box. There will be memories, secrets, lies and some tough physical stuff.
That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try to face the Danger Box. It just means that this isn’t like looking at last years vacation photos.
Instead, it’s tough. These things are decades old. And often they don’t center around one incident. They could - but more often than not, these are a hodge podge of life experiences that taught us things that may or may not be true.
Also, this is healing work. It’s a big project. It’s not a grocery list where you have five minutes of sad, five minutes of angry and then five minutes of happy - healing doesn’t work that way.
Healing is an annoyingly long hard slog through a lot of ick. It can be emotional ick, or physical ick and there are layers to each thing you find.
Healing isn’t once and done per icky incident that you survived. It’s highly disorganized and by all means - get help if you encounter things that are too big for you to handle.
One more thing: When I say too big for you to handle, I don’t mean you right now. Often times when we go looking at things in the past we encounter younger versions of ourselves who couldn’t handle the big ick.
That younger you will need the support of grown up you. And grown up you, may look at younger you and become overwhelmed as you realize that you were too young to handle the big ick then and grown up you doesn’t have the skills to handle the big ick now.
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