those are great suggestions, Joanna. I did talk to my therapist about becoming more grounded before I leave my visits. I just hope I can work through all of this abuse stuff and get moving on. I have been in an almost constant fog this whole week. No matter what I do, I feel I am out of it. I cant get much work done, it takes so much effort. I am trying to do my exercises. I can more easily identify my triggers for my food issues. I can identify with what you wrote in chapter 6 about secrets. I am "carrying the emotional burden of keeping secrets from myself." My spirit "cannot bear the truth" of all I know is there. I cannot always recognize when something is going to trigger this response, as I don't actively seek out traumatic thoughts. For some reason I am just more vulnerable right now. I want to run run run tracy