When we embrace our suffering and look deeply into it, we can learn a lot.

Healing demands that we learn how to be intimate with one another. We must also start listening and responding to the various clamoring parts of ourselves. But to respond in the present, we need to learn not to be overtaken by past traumas.

When we dismantle the barrier between the basement and the living room, blocks of pain will come up and we will have to suffer a bit.