Why Can't I Move Past What Happened?

 




“I know what happened and yet I still can’t get past it!”

This one comment describes the purpose of analytical therapy and why it's important to address the emotional impact of trauma.

True recovery from trauma, and the symptoms it creates, is only really achieved when two distinct types of understanding are achieved:

  • Intellectual Understanding 
  • Emotional Understanding 

Intellectual Understanding refers to the knowledge of what happened and/or the events that led up to and are contained within the trauma. They are the facts of situation. what actually happened. The events are often describe in a narrative form. The events may be recent or from many years previously, but they are recounted as a description of what happened.

Emotional Understanding refers to knowledge of what emotions the traumatic events created at the time. It includes the interpretations we gave to circumstances at the time. The emotion response to the events may be very different than compared to how we would react now, so is it vital we understand what is was like at the time.

I would argue that without both types of understanding, an individual is left empty handed. In my experience with clients, only when they have achieved both will they be free from the on-going symptoms and affects of the traumatic events.

It is not enough to understand that something upsetting happened, they have to fully understand how it felt at the time and why they interpreted events in that way.

To fully understand the emotional impact of events we have to feel it again in therapy. Within the support and safety of therapy we can feel and think through the emotions past events created. The cathartic effect gives us a full understanding and free’s us from the emotional ties carried forward into present-day events.

Even as I type this, I am fully aware that it sounds like a scary prospect. Analytical Therapy (depth work) is demanding, but the result of having both intellectual and emotional understanding, its liberating in a way only coping with symptoms can never achieve,

Find out more about Hypnoanalysis which combines both Hypnotherapy an Analytical Psychotherapy to resolve trauma and the emotional effects.

Book a free initial consultation a www.ketteringhypnotherapy.com Call/text 07429 522 723

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