Dear Noah kreiss:

You are very welcome. We are not things. We are people and we need so much more than to be physically alive. You want to be SEEN, you wrote. And you were not seen so far. We need to be seen before we see ourselves, this is something we need our parents to do: to see us, so we can see ourselves.

I was not seen. I lived a life from the outside, as if I was visible, not a participant. I have been on the healing journey for the last five years, started with the first good psychotherapy in my life, and what a journey it has been.

That kind of journey is available to you too. I sure hope you take this journey, that you too start psychotherapy so that a good psychotherapist can give you what your parents did not, visibility, and from there you can keep going, keep engaging in this process of becoming .. fully human, engaged, involved… alive.

Please do post again… and again!

anita