Airplanes
I’ve been doing IFS with a therapist for six years and have made amazing progress and am really proud of myself. But no matter how far I come I cannot fly without being absolutely hurled into my youngest most triggered states, that I never experience outside of airplanes. I’ve worked on it a lot but it’s hard to work on because the parts are so deep and subconscious to me that I hardly have any awareness of the parts at all. In some respects it’s gotten easier to see the triggered parts, and I know that it’s not really about airplanes and that those parts are just holding a lot of pain. But no matter what I do with them, being on an airplane is severely traumatic. I have a life that requires a lot of travel; I’m about to be in a long distance relationship, I have family on another continent, and my partners family also lives very far away. I’m wondering if this needs another approach, like EMDR.
Does anyone else have experience with situations that parts work just have not been able to assist with at all yet, and if so is there another modality that you’d recommend?