Emerson Scott

About

You are perhaps here because you have been told, more than once, that you should be over it by now. Possibly you have told yourself the same thing rather more often than anybody else has. That instruction is not merely unhelpful; it is based on a misunderstanding of how any of this works. There is no expiry date. Post-traumatic responses are maintained by an ongoing process rather than by the passage of time. That is why decades can pass without much changing, and why the right kind of work can shift things relatively quickly. Time alone was never going to do it, and that is not a failure of patience on your part. An entirely different field occupied my first working life and arrived here later than most, without much patience for received wisdom about how people ought to recover. If you have been waiting for time to do the work, get in touch.