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Do You Rewrite Your Past Too? #recoveryjourney #addictionrecovery #addictiontreatment

14 Feb 2025 · 0 min

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Amber Hollingsworth on how people rewrite their past to dodge present pain and their own mistakes. Selective memory lets you build a false story about yourself. She connects this to addiction and codependency, rooted in insecurity and shame.

We rewrite history as a way to not deal with the current present situation, but also as a way of dealing with our own mistakes. So we look back on things that have happened and we selectively pull out certain pieces and we remember them and we ignore other pieces. And that creates a false narrative in our own head, whether you're on the addiction side or the codependent side. In both cases, this stems from insecurity. It stems from shame.