I am currently journaling about my life story and I’ve had the opportunity to look at some genealogy and see patterns in my family history that relate to me. I plan to work through this journaling so I can put together the fragments of my memories and understand the patterns. There’s a lot of trauma there but I’m seeing the patterns of my own behavior in all of it that I hope to be able to change. I want to take responsibility for the things I can and let go of what I can’t - like the serenity prayer. After all of this, I want to move on. Whether it’s with this counselor or another counselor I plan to move forward and stay away from the past. I agree with you that there is no point in going over and over and over and over all of it. I’m hoping I can just stick with one counselor who knows me and understands my story and who I can go back to as needed in the future. This is all my plan anyway but who knows how it will work out.