"Getting In Touch": childhood memories resurface at ~8 months clean

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pivotal · May-June YDAU

When: May YDAU (dribbling into June), near the end of his residency, ~eight months clean
What: Getting ready to mow the Ennet House lawn in May YDAU, Gately suddenly began to "almost reexperience" long-sunken childhood memories — the M.P.'s measured beatings, his mother's vodka routine, the Salem/Beverly homes — memories that "sank without bubbles when he quit school and then later only in sobriety bubbled back up." A key sobriety state-change: sober pain and "Getting In Touch With Your Feelings," which he'd been warned gets worse through pain at 6-8 months.