Really good thread. I saw a lot of different discussions about how folks cope. Was surprised not to see Internal Family Systems discussed. Visualizing a youn

Really good thread. I saw a lot of different discussions about how folks cope. Was surprised not to see Internal Family Systems discussed. Visualizing a younger version of myself being inside of me reacting and controlling has been very helpful in terms of helping me empathize with the poorly adapted (or adapted to my bad early environment not the real world) parts of myself. Obviously finding a good therapist has been part of that (I had a fine one for 6 years and switched to a different one {body based} a year or so ago and it's been transformative). The other thing that has helped is couples therapy has been very good as individual therapy. Given how many of our issues are relational, couples therapy is a surprisingly good context for forcing individual growth.