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Sarah: It ruins the thing and makes it ugly and unpleasant.
Lucy: It9s a party pooper? Is that language okay?
Sarah: Yes, I like that.
Lucy: What is the party pooper9s reason for showing up?
Sarah: It9s tied to other things we9ve talked about. It disturbs me or distresses me.
Lucy: Why does the story stop with the assault of women? Are there things you
would like to contribute to the story if it kept going? Like, an odd example,
you could send blessings to all the women who suffered harm when you
see sweatpants. & Do you want to stay passive so that the story appears to
be at an end? Can it continue towards something inventive and different?
How have you determined that the horrific part is the endpoint of the
thought?
Sarah: (Long pause) That blew my mind & it9s correlated to aspects regarding my
own self. There are so many times in my life that it never occurred to me to
counter it. That I have power. It9s that obedience thing. I9m obedient to the
thought. I9m acquiescing when the thought is telling me what to do. The
thought is insisting I9m obedient when the story has the ability to morph
into something else. The issue stems from the same place.
Lucy: Do you think that the associated thought pretends to be conclusive and
authoritative when it9s actually contingent and can be changed?
Sarah: Yes.
Lucy: How does it pretend to do that?
Sarah: (...) I think that I take things at face value and I do what I9m told. I don9t
necessarily question it and my instincts have been diluted over the years.
Previously, we had discussed how Sarah's passivity had supported harmony in her
home and work. What was initially labeled "OCD" provided her with a means to
relinquish her power and abdicate her impulses. Sarah would go from being a
dynamic thinker to a docile, malleable, and fearful viewer. In contrast, when
Breaking the Frame: Aesthetic Encounters with Narrative Practices – Part Two
Journal of Contemporary Narrative Therapy, May 2025 Release, p. 5-28.
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