"Sometimes we get slammed with life tragedy, trauma, or grief so difficult and so prolonged that we finally fall to our knees in surrender to, "I don't even know who I am anymore." Whatever it is that we have always done to get by, to overcome, or maybe even to bypass, just isn't working anymore. In whatever way we have seen ourselves, be it as a strong person, a "weird" person, a bad or good person,"
"Sorrow is thick in its oppressive shroud. Anger is rage that cannot seem to attain any level of justice or fairness. Anxiety has now become fear so overwhelming that we seek and fail to find a cave deep enough to hide in. Emotions are not just unregulated now; they are self-defining. We have lost any sense of self in a miasma of raw emotion."
"But from a Transpersonal or Jungian perspective, the psyche is always leaning toward wholeness. What could this possibly mean in the face of such a seeming irretrievable sense of self? Well, first, it means that there is still a "you" in there. And that "you" is your psyche-a deeper, less logical but more ordered power that is constantly, over a lifetime, working to unite consciousness with unconsciousness."
Intense tragedy, trauma, or prolonged grief can dissolve familiar self-conceptions and leave a person feeling lost and unavailable to themselves. Overwhelming sorrow, rage, and anxiety can become defining forces that erode emotional regulation and sense of identity. The deeper psyche, understood through Transpersonal or Jungian perspectives, persistently moves toward wholeness by working to unite consciousness with unconscious processes. A remaining core "you" exists within that deeper psyche and can guide integration. Experiencing loss of self can form part of a necessary transformational trajectory in which disorientation opens a pathway toward a more unified, larger Self.
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