Putting the brakes on / listening to a Part

[Blueberry]

I was really enjoying working on my duolingo lessons today - full steam ahead and actually pausing to make up little sentences about me and my own life based on textbook examples. When either a bodily function? like breathing or that manifested as a Part began to have more and more trouble, I did eventually put the brakes on.

And have since been simply breathing normally to settle my breathing down again.

This is new-old progress. I have been here before in different contexts, but it's good to remind myself: ALL my Parts and what they are feeling is important, everybody needs and deserves to be heard. When that doesn't happen, some thing /some aspect of me forces me to listen. Putting the brakes on earlier would've been beneficial, but I did put them on eventually and that is PROGRESS. 

[NarcKiddo]

Well done. You are right that all the parts are important and deserve to be heard. I'm glad you were enjoying the Duolingo lessons and well done for getting on with them. I wonder if maybe some of the parts were concerned about the content of the sentences? I could be totally off base here but my own FOO forbade us from talking about family unless FOO curated what was said. At any rate it's good you put the brakes on so you can consider what your part(s) are trying to communicate.

I notice huge reluctance when I am trying to read certain books but I have not yet always managed to find out exactly who or why. I do know that Little NK who is probably between 5 and 8 is often satisfied by having a toy to hold and will then be content for me to read on. I think you have used that approach too?

   to you. And