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I thought that I was fairly aware of many of my alters after many years of working on healing and working with them, however, in the past 24 hours I have been flooded with a memory of something with Mother 19 years ago, and I cannot think of anything else, unable to sleep, eat, do anything much except this thing keeps running through my mind, racing in fact. I feel flooded and don't know what to do to get some rest. I would be interested to hear of any ways that have worked for you on this. I really need some sleep.

Kate

hi kate
do you know about containments? it's when you create a place or system or something inside to hold the memory and feelings until you are ready to deal with more of it. Sometimes it helps to draw whatever it is, or write a description of it

i have an "ice room" inside, so like I can "flash freeze" something scary that hits too hard at once. So theres like this big ice chunck, and i "put" it inside a brick cube with a chain around it. Then i can go back to it when im ready, and maybe just melt a little ot at a time and lock the rest back up again.

that's just my example - other people have other ways of doing it