Task Master Part: “Well I have all these ideas during the day and get so emotionally exhausted at night because if I’m not productive during the day I feel like a loser”.

Distracted Part: “But the sun always calls me and summer is hard for me to focus inside when the warmth comforts”.

Risk Part: “I love the sun and don’t care if it fries my skin, I overcame skin cancer once”.

Dreamer Part: “I feel trapped in a cycle but when I visit with the therapeutic masseuse, my brain thinks it is possible to teach a seminar at a college like he has, maybe I can share my knowledge”?!

Judger Part: “Knowledge of what”?

Knowledge Part: “Knowledge of course, of all the modalities I use to therapize my clients, how I traveled to other countries to gather data and research”.

Defeated Part: “Who cares”.

Dreamer Part: “I want him to speak at a conference, I could set it up and be able to share then, right”?

Critical and Quitter Parts (Teaming Up): “But I seldom put my plans into action because my guilt, shame, depressed cycle traps me nightly”.

Quitter and Binge Parts (Tag Teaming): “It sucks, so I drink and eat and vow to start over again tomorrow.

Doubt Part: “How do I trust myself”?

Helpless Part: “It’s a problem that only seems smaller when I’m around others who can “help” me make sense of my fears”.

Fear, Dreamer and Defeated Parts (Ring around a rosy): “Somehow I find motivation in moments of collaboration to find gumption but retreat to stagnation when alone”.

Threatened Part: “Could it be that I expect punishment and fear getting into some kind of trouble”?

Knowledge Part: “Oh yes, he did say that pain is perceived danger”.

Unprotected Part: “That makes sense because trauma has wired my brain to scan everything as a threat to my well-being”.

Fear Part: “I fear so much more than evenings”.

Task Master Part: “That is why I have to care about re-wiring the thoughts in my brain”.