Bringing the emotions of the past into the ‘now’

Bringing the emotions of the past into the ‘now’

James – music and sorrow
We talked earlier about James, whom we first met earlier. Although with the support of a counsellor James tried to identify the reason for his intense grief on hearing music, he was unable to do so. He was aware, however, that he held on to that grief and thought it would be a weakness in him to ‘give in’ to it and weep. Eventually he understood that although he didn’t know what lay behind it, his grief was very real and needed to be expressed in a way that had not been possible until now...