When the soul hurts, when it hurts to live, we start our self-protection mechanisms that allow us to “survive the pain.” The therapeutic process is a fragile balance between looking back at the wound and hold the pain. Therefore, the deep healing process is not done in one day. So enter the wound requires tact. Skipping all barriers of protection can be impossible to sustain and we can fall under thrauma again. However, staying in the barrier serves as a patch, but does not help us to understand ourselves in depth and to love oneself completely, also with our pain. Our mechanisms of personality are what a tourniquet is in a wound: when the wound bleeds the tourniquet has to be tighten, it can save a life. But to heal the wound, the tourniquet has to loosen, the wound needs to be looked at, cleaned -though it hurts- and treatment to be applied for blood to circulate again, for life to flow.
