Thank you for sharing that. You're absolutely right, of course.

I am, indeed, not only acknowledging the pain and all the issues being together raised within me, but making myself 'ride through it'; that is to say, sitting down and letting it do what it wants with me - to wash over me, without me resorting to doubling over and seeking a distraction, like a movie, to escape it.

Am doing my level best not to run away from it.

'Running' could have been my middle name. I've been so good at it in my life.

Hugs