Emotions are the furniture that fill the mind. And extreme emotions are the unmovable-type furniture.
What good is the house where there's nothing to sit on. You always need a chair to sit on. Trauma has a way of engaging you, to the extent that when it's gone you feel that you are missing something. If that's the only furniture available, you'll sit on that.
So what, do you keep sitting? In matters of mind it's tough to fathom what goes away and how. How do you replace the furniture?
One of the things that can be done is take a new house, a bigger house, rented or owned. Get in more furniture to sit on, to sleep on. Shut the old furniture in one of the rooms and dispose it off – in bits or whole – as opportunities arise over time.
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