#part work

within yourself

& be honest with what u find.

welcome it in whatever form it comes in

face it

don't resist it.

give her a name if u will

your own "egoic" friend

watch her

understand her

ask her what she needs?

but don't judge her...she needs your compassion,nurturing & trust

once you've fully met your "new" friend

reintegrate her into who you've become

It makes sense too why we never fully came to terms with it until mid college. Dissociative barriers and denial makes it covert and when there’s amnesia there’s dissociation around amnesia, making it seem like nothing was forgotten at all or the things forgotten get downplayed as so minor that it’s disregarded entirely.

There’s some parts still struggling with denial about having a dissociative disorder since “we would have known before now” or “it would have formed earlier” when in fact both of those things are true, just not for the alters in question. If one of our alters was still dormant we probably would still not know just how our timeline of having a system goes.

*quick explanation of parts-work: its basically doing exercises to figure out who is apart of your family system! Almost everyone does it, too. It’s when your brain goes “haha we have too many things to do in too many places, I’m going to create roles!” and then, whenever you’re in a certain place or situation, your brain can go “oh! it’s time to be more productive” or “we can’t handle this, disassociate! now!” there are different “severities” for different people based off of trauma or personal experiences*

take care of what has been

given. Brush her hair, help her

into her little coat, hold her hand,

especially when crossing a street. For, think,

what if you should lose her? Then you would be

sorrow yourself; her drawn face, her sleeplessness

would be yours. Take care, touch

her forehead that she feel herself not so

utterly alone. And smile, that she does not

altogether forget the world before the lesson.

Have patience in abundance. And do not

ever lie or ever leave her even for a moment

by herself, which is to say, possibly, again,

abandoned. She is strange, mute, difficult,

sometimes unmanageable but, remember, she is a child.

little by little she relaxes; she looks about her;

And amazing things can happen. And you may see,

as the two of you go

walking together in the morning light, how

she begins to grow.

French Hugo Pratt Part Work continues, 70 ”Tout Pratt” books planned

Following up on our news item on Rebellion’s upcoming series of oversize Picture Library reprints centring on the British War comics work of award-winning Italian artist Hugo Pratt, you may be interested to know that French publisher Altaya is running a planned 70-book part work featuring that aims to reprint all his published stories.

Despite his importance and the deserved acclaim for his…