the iceberg model in psychology, diagram found online…
We all have our separate icebergs, just like we all have things we liked, disliked, things that made us tick, things we tolerate, etc., etc., etc., etc.
These icebergs in all of us, they’re, well, suppressed to BELOW our subconscious minds (and that would be, IN the unconscious!), and, usually, these iceberg don’t “come out to play”, unless, they’re, “activated” somehow, by our current experiences with the outside world (outside of our separate physical presences!). Because these icebergs had been suppressed, submerged underwater too long, other than having that global-warming size meltdown, you can expect, to find, a TON (or more than that!!!) DEAD carcasses stuffed in them.
the Titanic, hitting the iceberg…photo from online…
These icebergs are there in all of us, because, they’re, a part of our past, and, when we refused to examine what DID actually happen, to our younger selves, and fully accept the events of our separately BUT equally FUCKED up childhoods these icebergs are going to, keep on, growing, bigger, bigger, and bigger, because we basically, PUT ourselves, in the TUNDRA, without enough clothes on (and, you should KNOW by now, just how FREEZING cold the TUNDRA can get!).
The icebergs in all of us, they’re, the parts of our pasts, that hurt bad, the younger versions of our selves who were abused AND neglected, mistreated, never LOVED by those two PRIMARY attachment figures (look THAT up, why don’t ya!) in our younger years.
But, the iceberg will melt off, if we’re willing to, bring some heat into our separate lives, and, by opening our arms, and embrace those past “portions” of our selves which were unloved, abused AND neglected, overlooked, hurt, we will be able to, melt these frozen-solid-for-god-knows-how-many-years-on-end ice chunks, and, who knows, maybe, you’ll will, enjoy some shaved ice, as I used to, I can’t do that now, because, I just can’t, okay???
not my photograph…
Life, the Obstacle Course 