Comments on: The Suit of Life – A Message for Self-Love https://cptsdfoundation.org/2025/06/19/the-suit-of-life-a-message-for-self-love/ The Foundation for Post-Traumatic Healing and Complex Trauma Research Wed, 25 Jun 2025 21:27:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Jesse https://cptsdfoundation.org/2025/06/19/the-suit-of-life-a-message-for-self-love/#comment-35532 Wed, 25 Jun 2025 21:27:59 +0000 https://cptsdfoundation.org/?p=987499281#comment-35532 In reply to David Ellis.

Hi David, thank you for taking the time to share a voice of understanding. As someone who dissociates more than I’d care to admit, I see your critique as right on target. My main desire in sharing my writings is to get people to think more deeply and clearly. I believe a part of one’s therapeutic process and journey is to awaken the development of critical thinking.
I’m glad you found the essay interesting. Thank you for taking the time to comment; it’s much appreciated.
Jesse

]]> By: David Ellis https://cptsdfoundation.org/2025/06/19/the-suit-of-life-a-message-for-self-love/#comment-35507 Wed, 25 Jun 2025 08:34:39 +0000 https://cptsdfoundation.org/?p=987499281#comment-35507 Thank you for sharing your interesting thoughts about the “suit”. I believe it is society that encourages us to carefully design our “suit” to mask the reality of our true self. It is a “suit” of survival we design to keep ourselves “safe” from the feared “harm” that can be inflicted upon us, or at least we think this is the case. Afterall, if we want love and we desire acceptance for who we are, we need to stop dissociating from ourselves. We need to remove the “suit” so that we might accept ourselves for who we truly are and present our real selves to others. Then, and only then, once we accept our true self, can we hope to be accepted and loved by others in our lives. The difficulty exists for us because choosing to stop hiding under our “suit” means we become vulnerable. This vulnerability can be frightening, yet if we decide not to foster deception, then we must lose the “suit” and encourage the man who is underneath to begin to form connections with others while allowing others to see us for who we are in this world. We can begin to know and love ourselves as we truly are, without our “suit” of denial.

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