AG, after reading your post of the Not So Pretty Parts, I think it really validated the work I did with my T. He calls it Internal Family Systems work, where we work with different "parts" of ourselves. I always want to do away and cast out the "anxiety" part of me and he says that the motto of this modality is "All Parts Welcome." And he says, like you do, that the more you try to suppress these "parts" the more they turn the volume up. So you are right on with this one! I am in the process of accepting the different parts of myself, dispite the fact that they irritate me.

Thanks for posting.

LJB