The Past & Present

In A.A. they say, "We do not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it." For me this means some psychodynamics or what I call "deep process" work. Every few years something comes up from my unconscious that I have suppressed---usually anger or grief. Then I explore the discovered emotions and process them. I discuss processing past emotions in my article, "Processing Painful Emotions." Here is an article from the A.A. literature that started me on my journey to unburdening myself of unresolved issues from the past.