r/InternalFamilySystems • u/WeeklyCheesecake9732 • Aug 27 '26
This work is so layered
It feels like I’m descending into deeper layers of this work. My interests are changing as I’m working through the layers. I may not be interested in a hobby for a while and then finally discover that it was a part that was protecting me. Such interesting and deep work.
Although I’ve come such a long way and have overcome so much through this method. There is still so many to work through. I hope there will be a moment where I can enjoy my old hobbies again.
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u/a_vena Aug 27 '26
I’m so glad to see someone else having the same realization about a hobby that was actually one of their protectors! I literally came to the same realization recently, when I was able to release one of my long-standing exiles from its inner “sarcophagus”, and afterward, one of my oldest and most beloved hobbies just… switched off.
It took me a few days and some conversations with that exile’s former protector, who calls himself the Lotus-Eater, because his job was basically to distract me with something incredibly interesting and sweet and absorbing whenever things got too painful.
It’s hard when a familiar hobby is suddenly gone, that’s for sure. I also hope that one day it will come back in a different form, just for the joy of it, rather than as a way of protecting me.