Dear Mepina:

I like your Jenga game imagery, very much so. Your practice in your recent dating experience to not “simply follow his desires” is a very good practice, and it is a new experience, this satisfaction that you feel about your new behavior is a feeling that gets recorded in your brain, a new feeling connected to new behavior, that is a new neuropathway and that is definitely a new Jenga piece.

Interesting you wrote: “some of my Jenga pieces felt down”- you meant fell down, correct? Both are true, you felt down, that is an automatic feeling based on an old neuropathway, a pathway that will stay with you for a long time, but the new neuropathway I mentioned above and other new to come, change the mapping of the brain, and that is what healing is about.

You are welcome and thank you for being here and posting. It is informative and pleasurable for me to read from you and reply.

anita