Past, present and future are all actually “nows”, and if we aren’t too busy denying or resisting it, all of our connections are always part of us. We can make boundaries in our minds to try to separate things, but underneath them, the greater base of truth is that nothing, no experience or connection, is ever “gone”, and we are much better off recognizing that all of it will always be “here” and “now” as part of who and what we are, integrating all of our life continuum, and being whole and complete, not divided.
All counseling, all processing, should be in the direction of recovering all of the parts, feelings and sections of us that we have buried, hidden, denied, forsaken, and otherwise tried to separate from ourselves, and integrating all of it, to be whole, and to regain all of our powers to see, to know, and to be.
Love, Dex