May 29, 2021
Integrating their split-off aggression—learning neither to act it in nor act it out, transforming it into healthy aggression—is key to reconnection with the bodily self and the world, to increased aliveness, and to coming out of dissociation. They fear that if they allow themselves to feel their anger, they might hurt someone.... Integrated, healthy aggression leads to increased capacity for self-expression, strength, and individuation.
--Healing Developmental Trauma by Aline Lapierre and Laurence Heller