Stop looking for repressed feelings - they don't exist

[flowboy]

Maybe this belongs in the "practical" section, I'm not sure.

Had an insight while doing shadow work on LSD. Maybe it helps someone here who is also doing shadow work or self therapy.

Traumatic memories don't have feelings attached to them that later get suppressed.

So looking at old memories might feel deceptively bland - meh, don't feel much.

It's because the feelings never got the chance to manifest - in fact, giving yourself the space to feel the appropriate feelings for the first time is how to heal traumatic memories.