The Body Chronicles
Notice when you retell your stories of past events... The way it shows up in your body, the inflection in your voice. How it makes you feel re-living it in every fiber of your being. The re-telling, especially without resolution adds to the trauma. The re-telling in order to illicit a specific response from others (be on my side) is manipulation. The re-telling, in hopes that it could or should have happened any other way than it did leaves no room for healing or forgiveness.