Are there any of us completely free of what happened in our upbringing? I was joking with Dr. Claudia Bernhardt Pacheco after the therapy session you’re about to listen to about how I was relating to today’s client. She’s dealing with fear of judgment, and I can relate to that feeling of pressure in social situations.
As Dr. Pacheco will discuss today, there’s a lot of internalization that we do of the demanding and censoring environment we grew up in that’s at play here. The brilliance of the Integral Psychoanalysis we use here in our Therapy Online Series is how we are brought to see how that has become a demanding nature that we’ve continued in our lives.
So we’re not stuck in that victim posture of being only a product of what happened to us, but a continuation. Something we now do to ourselves mostly unconsciously.
It’s fascinating stuff, as you’re about to hear with Dr. Pacheco and today’s client.