Healing Page 2
It's Always There
The trauma, the war will always be with her If this picture didnt have that trauma, the  darknenss attached to the survivior the painting would be very shallow, empty not well balanced. It makes her a deeper person. 
Wise Mind
The wisemind is the balance between the cognitive self and the emotional self as displayed by the heart and the brain/spinal cord. In that balance is the wise mind, the spirit and the soul shining through
Exposure and Acceptance
Therapy-healing from trauma:
The patient is stuck on the ice and it is breaking. The  ice is the trauma. The therapist cannot go out onto the ice to rescue the patient if so they both will fall through.
The therapist can encourage and provide a ladder a means to assist the patient in a means to egress from the ice and the trauma.
The patient must decide whether to be saved and to listen to the therapist. In order to be healed the patient must come in contact with the ice extending herself over it and in contact with the ice and trauma.
If she attempts to run across the ice to heal without ever really coming in contact with the ice she will fall through
Healing requires exposure to the trauma and acceptance .
The patient is slowly becoming transparent identifying and defining herself  only with the trauma
Solace
Tranquility
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Greta