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Do you know someone who has managed courageously to live a productive life despite some major physical disability or loss, like finan-cial ruin or natural disaster? Some people with such burdens lose their will to live or become hopeless and live in despair and depression.. Others - e.g. people who survive torture and prison camp life and wheel-chair athletes - adapt to their limitations or trauma and live productive, goal-oriented lives. Something that may promote the latter is a personality "subself" who may be called the Survivor. Its special talent is to provide the steady will to live despite any hardship. The Survivor may partner with a Spiritual and Adult subselves and the resident true Self. It's probable that to sur-vive a neglectful, abusive (i.e. low-nurturance) childhood, kids automa-tically develop a Survivor and other dedicated Guardian subselves. Other teens or adults become dominated by a Whiner, Lost Child, Pessimist, Addict, and/or Catastrophizer, or ultimately a Suicider subself who pro-vides a sure way to end intolerable daily pain. Project 1 in this nonprofit wound-prevention Web site provides a way to meet and harmonize your talented subselves under the wise leader-ship of your Self (capital "S") and caring Higher Power. Do you have a Survivor subself helping you through your life crises and losses? more detail / slides / Project 1 index and guidebook / FAQ / close |
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