Psychotherapy Networker, March 1st, 2004
Breaking the Spell
by Stephen Lyons
"Close your eyes and try to find that little boy," my therapist, Sara, suggests, gently moving me through my first guided meditation. "Do you see him?"
"Yes," I say, but I don't, not really. I see no one but an anxious man who rarely sleeps anymore, who wakes up at one, two, and three a.m., filled with fear, rage, and unquenchable guilt. I've finally left my wife, who abandoned me years earlier for alcohol. "I'll never divorce you," Maria once hissed. "You'll have to leave me." She was right.
"Approach that little boy. Is he happy to see you?" Sara pre...
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