Last night, I watched the first two episodes of the second season of the Apple TV show Shrinking. It’s a terrific show with a great cast, including Harrison Ford.
The show features an army vet with PTSD named Sean. Harrison Ford plays a therapist named Paul and he starts treating Sean. This is where it got interesting to me. Sean was having a hard time with a potential problem he saw coming up. Paul told him that when this happens he is to close his eyes and take himself through the absolute worst case scenario, saying the words out loud, and that he is to do this until he bursts into the light and is able to say PAIN SETS ME FREE.
As I was listening to this last night, and watching how Sean put it into action, I thought “This is something I really need to remember.” Yesterday I was having a hard time with really crappy memories coming up, feeling some trauma again, and actually not looking forward to the future. I had not been feeling that way, so it was a little disheartening. But this little segment showed me that perhaps I just need to walk my way through those times, and feel the pain that goes with it rather than avoiding it, which was probably what I was doing yesterday. I can free myself from the pain I’m holding in and doing my best to ignore.
I’m documenting this here, hopefully so I won’t forget.
If you have Apple TV, I highly recommend the show Shrinking.
[ADDENDUM] Within an hour of posting this I recognized I needed to use it. Let me tell you…it works. Lots of tears, but lots of comfort, too.
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