The goal of reconceptualization is to illuminate the change and honor the process of being human and going through life. It is not a Band-Aid on a deep wound, it’s not like the process of tattoo removal, it’s not the creation of a competing “correct” thought that if you think of it often enough will take precedence over the toxic thought. Reconceptualization is the recognition and removal of the chains that bind you to the past—it’s the trial becoming the testimony. It’s incorporating your story, which is now redesigned (with the pain accepted and neutralized); it’s not ignoring or suppressing
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