Compartmentalization is something that we’ve been taught to see as a strong survival trait, where you’re perceived to be able to stay stable, somehow unaffected by what’s around you. But compartmentalizing throughout our lives just traps emotions in certain parts of our mind, and unlike items in a drawer, your subconscious never actually ignores. The blocks you put up in the sections of your mind become blocks that form as tension in your body. The power of the mind is separated out into mini sections of itself, it can be a scary process to de-compartmentalize your mind because it now lets loose the things that you’ve been keeping so separate from your conscious
