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I've been thinking of taking up guitar again, as a means of letting my subconscious express. I played a lot through high school and college, and it seemed to be a good outlet. However, lately I've been trying SO HARD to dig up repressed memories of childhood abuse, so that I can process them as an adult, but they're so hard to access. My question, then, is if I return to playing guitar, what is it really doing? Is it just self-soothing? Is it a form of subconscious expression/processing that actually makes progress on the problem? My concern is that I'll self-soothe with music, take the fire and energy out of my introspection, and thus make my return to health a longer and slower journey. For as much work as I'm putting into my healing, I really don't want to do something that slows it down. Does anyone know what the professionals say about music in therapy?
