Newby here, desperate for some advice (thread 6)

[JRuss]

lt/Gump -- I do have fear, but I don't think that it is the missing piece, and that if I can only "get in touch with it", I'll be in a fundamentally different place. That said, I've been pushing it down and not giving it any room to be experienced, and that's never a recipe for beneficial growth. So I'm going to try to explore it, understand it -- whatever it is we do as we become aware of painful things and try to learn to live with them until they lose power over our emotions and feelings.