Addressing our emotional suppression is useful, but not nearly as useful as digging up our repression. By definition, suppression is conscious and repression is unconscious. Digging up our repression shows us how we have been living a life totally secret from ourselves and likely blaming everyone else for our self-sabotage. Addressing unconscious issues means it is not our fault, our bodies are built like this, and at the same time nothing will truly change if we don’t do this work. This requires a very clever approach and a very courageous willingness to “be” in ways we have never been before. Those pathways are blocked off by shame, so it’s not going to feel good. This is why great discipline is required to find integrity.
Digging up our repression
