Unfinished Business

Unfinished Business

- when figures emerge from background, but did not complete/unresolved → become unfinished business

- effects: manifest unexpressed feelings, e.g. resentment, rage, hatred, pain, anxiety, grief, guilt

- these feeling not fully experiences in awareness, interfere present life by interfering effective contact with oneself & others

- solution: face to it, deals with unexpressed feeling

- effects of unfinished business: often show in some blockage within the body, may result in physical symptoms

- stuck point, a situation in which individuals believe they are unable to support themselves and seek external support

- therapists’ task: help them get through stuck point by fully experiencing it, so that grow

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