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Would you like to elabotate how curiosity is involved in your process of healing? I genuilnely can't imagine.
That's the only way out of trauma imo. Not soothing, not whining - a pure curiosity of what's beyond it. How the world feels, how it functions, how I react to things, how others react to the same stimulus.
I'm glad you're not my therapist bcz this is hogwash.
I'm glad I'm noone's therapist too. Wishing you a recovery
My pure, insatiable curiosity is one of the few reasons I've found to keep living. My current connections are another, but in the past I didn't have as many good ones. I have a raw, unending need to know everything I can about humanity, the universe, and how we can best fit in it. Similarly I need to stay around long enough to find out who was right: the religion of the shepherd or that of the goatherd (the answer might be neither, but I'd like to see)?
I have found that burning down the cause of the trauma so it can't hurt you anymore is also effective.