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The Loss of the Future Dimension

Subject: The Loss of the Future Dimension

49 chapters

1. The Question

[Verse 1]
Little hands reach out but find empty air
Mother's gone away, left without a care
Father sits nearby but his mind's not here
Body in the room but his heart's unclear
What becomes of dreams when the guides disappear?
When tomorrow feels too far from here

[Chorus]
The Question burns inside a growing mind
"Who will show me what I'm meant to find?"
When the future fades from sight
And there's no one to make it bright
The Question echoes through the night
"Who will teach me wrong from right?"

[Verse 2]
Empty chair at breakfast where she used to be
Stories left unfinished, no one there to read
Father looks right through them like they're made of glass
Present but not present, letting moments pass
How can children picture what they'll grow to be
When the path ahead is hard to see?

[Chorus]
The Question burns inside a growing mind
"Who will show me what I'm meant to find?"
When the future fades from sight
And there's no one to make it bright
The Question echoes through the night
"Who will teach me wrong from right?"

[Bridge]
Loss of future dimension
When connection breaks apart
No direction, no attention
Leaves a question in the heart
Who will care about tomorrow?
Who will help me find my way?
Through confusion, through the sorrow
The Question grows stronger every day

[Chorus]
The Question burns inside a growing mind
"Who will show me what I'm meant to find?"
When the future fades from sight
And there's no one to make it bright
The Question echoes through the night
"Who will teach me wrong from right?"

[Outro]
Little hearts keep asking through the years
"Who will dry my future tears?"
The Question never disappears

2. Readings

[Verse 1]
When the one who's meant to stay just walks away
Little hearts learn rules that never fade
Not about the past but what's to come
The future can't be trusted by anyone
Bowlby saw the pattern crystal clear
Separation plants the deepest fear

[Chorus]
When attachment breaks, the future breaks
Every bond you'll make, your heart will shake
Herman shows the wound becomes the way
Schore explains the circuits fade away
Without the ground beneath your feet
The future feels like a broken beat

[Verse 2]
It's not death that leaves the lasting scar
It's abandonment that travels far
Choice implied in every goodbye
Teaches children that the well runs dry
Not a lesson from yesterday
But a warning for tomorrow's way

[Chorus]
When attachment breaks, the future breaks
Every bond you'll make, your heart will shake
Herman shows the wound becomes the way
Schore explains the circuits fade away
Without the ground beneath your feet
The future feels like a broken beat

[Bridge]
Winnicott's paradox rings true
To be alone you need love's glue
The capacity grows in safety's light
Right brain circuits need connection bright
Regulation starts with mother's care
Building futures in the moments shared

[Verse 3]
Chronic trauma shapes the growing mind
Personality forms around what's left behind
Not just broken hearts but broken plans
Every hope now filtered through the past's demands
The construction site gets torn away
Where tomorrow's self was meant to stay

[Final Chorus]
When attachment breaks, the future breaks
Every bond you'll make, your heart will shake
Herman shows the wound becomes the way
Schore explains the circuits fade away
The ground can disappear beneath
And future's just a broken belief

[Outro]
Learn the pattern, know the cost
When the future dimension's lost

3. Supplementary

[Verse 1]
In nineteen forty-five, a doctor named Spitz
Observed the children in hospitals split
From mothers too early, they couldn't attach
The future dimension began to detach

When babies are taken from loving embrace
No bonds form to guide them through time and space
Without that connection, that warm holding tight
Tomorrow grows distant, fades out of sight

[Chorus]
Ghosts in the nursery, haunting the years
When early attachment just disappears
The future gets lost when the past won't heal
Supplementary care helps make bonding real
Real, real, supplementary care makes bonding real

[Verse 2]
Fraiberg and team in seventy-five
Found ghosts from the past keeping wounds alive
When parents can't bond 'cause their own hearts are broke
The cycle continues like lingering smoke

But supplementary means we can fill in the gaps
With therapeutic touch and responsive maps
Teaching new pathways where love can grow
So children can learn what they need to know

[Chorus]
Ghosts in the nursery, haunting the years
When early attachment just disappears
The future gets lost when the past won't heal
Supplementary care helps make bonding real
Real, real, supplementary care makes bonding real

[Bridge]
Hospitalism showed us the cost
When primary bonds are broken or lost
But supplementary intervention can mend
What started as broken can beautifully blend

[Verse 3]
The loss of dimension means time feels unclear
No sense of tomorrow when no one stays near
But with extra support and consistent care
The future dimension can grow and repair

[Final Chorus]
Ghosts in the nursery don't have to stay
Supplementary love can chase them away
The future returns when the healing is real
Supplementary care helps broken hearts heal
Heal, heal, supplementary care helps broken hearts heal

[Outro]
From Spitz to Fraiberg, the message rings true
Early attachment shapes me and you
But it's never too late to supplement with care
And bring back the future that should have been there

4. Reflection

[Verse 1]
She reads her mother's diary pages
Stories from a childhood past
But deeper than the written stages
Lives a wound that's holding fast
A little girl left all alone
Built walls of stone around her heart
The future felt like great unknown
Where love could end before it starts

[Chorus]
When tomorrow feels like empty space
And the future has no solid ground
Where security should take its place
There's an absence, hollow sound
The loss of future dimension
Steals the hope from what could be
Living without comprehension
That tomorrow holds you tenderly

[Verse 2]
She learned to function, learned to cope
Even shine in others' eyes
But underneath the surface hope
The little girl still cries
Not just abandonment issues here
It's deeper than we often see
The future disappeared
Where trust and time should be

[Chorus]
When tomorrow feels like empty space
And the future has no solid ground
Where security should take its place
There's an absence, hollow sound
The loss of future dimension
Steals the hope from what could be
Living without comprehension
That tomorrow holds you tenderly

[Bridge]
She carries this into her home
Into the family that she makes
The empty space she's always known
Affects each choice and step she takes
Reading now with older eyes
Understanding runs so deep
Behind her childhood's compromise
Lives a wound that's buried deep

[Chorus]
When tomorrow feels like empty space
And the future has no solid ground
Where security should take its place
There's an absence, hollow sound
The loss of future dimension
Steals the hope from what could be
Living without comprehension
That tomorrow holds you tenderly

[Outro]
Where the future should reside
Lives an echo, empty hall
Understanding helps us find
The deepest wounds of all

5. The Question

[Verse 1]
There's a man sitting in his favorite chair
Reading the news but his mind's not there
His little one calls "Daddy come and play"
But he just nods and looks away
Body present but his heart's somewhere else
Lost in worries about himself

[Chorus]
When daddy's there but daddy's gone
The child keeps waiting, holding on
Physical presence, emotional void
A future's hope gets slowly destroyed
There but not there, gone but still here
The question echoes year after year

[Verse 2]
She learns that love means being ignored
That attention's something you can't afford
Builds her walls up brick by brick
Thinks that caring makes you sick
When the one who should protect and guide
Is just an empty shell inside

[Chorus]
When daddy's there but daddy's gone
The child keeps waiting, holding on
Physical presence, emotional void
A future's hope gets slowly destroyed
There but not there, gone but still here
The question echoes year after year

[Bridge]
What does it mean to be alive
When the ones you love just survive
The body's here but soul's away
Stealing tomorrow from today
The future dims when love won't grow
From the seeds we do not sow

[Verse 3]
Years go by and patterns form
Emotional distance feels like the norm
She searches for what she never had
In every face that makes her sad
The empty chair becomes her heart
Learning love means being apart

[Chorus]
When daddy's there but daddy's gone
The child keeps waiting, holding on
Physical presence, emotional void
A future's hope gets slowly destroyed
There but not there, gone but still here
The question echoes year after year

[Outro]
The question lingers in her mind
What future's lost when love's not kind
When presence isn't truly there
The future vanishes in empty air

6. Readings

[Verse 1]
In a house where bottles hide the pain
Little eyes learn rules they can't explain
Don't talk about what happened yesterday
Don't trust tomorrow might be okay
Don't feel the hurt that's building up inside
When daddy's love becomes a place to hide

[Chorus]
Don't talk, don't trust, don't feel
These are the rules that make time disappear
No past to tell, no future that's real
Just frozen moments filled with fear
The loss of tomorrow starts right here
When childhood learns these rules so clear

[Verse 2]
Janet saw the patterns running deep
Adult children struggling in their sleep
Can't follow through on dreams they start to make
Reading every room for others' sake
Hypersensitive to every mood
Responsibility misunderstood

[Chorus]
Don't talk, don't trust, don't feel
These are the rules that make time disappear
No past to tell, no future that's real
Just frozen moments filled with fear
The loss of tomorrow starts right here
When childhood learns these rules so clear

[Bridge]
Gabor showed us stress hormones flow
Cortisol bath while young minds grow
Nervous systems shaped by threat detection
Future planning loses all direction
Tronick's still face experiment reveals
What happens when a parent never heals

[Verse 3]
Two minutes of blank stare breaks a child
Now imagine years of disconnect so wild
The infant learns that reaching out brings pain
Withdrawal becomes the only way to remain
Atmospheric abandonment all around
Future dreams crash to the ground

[Final Chorus]
Don't talk, don't trust, don't feel
These temporal rules steal what should be real
No narrative thread, no time to heal
Just survival mode and wounds concealed
The future dies when these rules appear
And tomorrow disappears

[Outro]
Black and Woititz helped us understand
How addiction steals time from little hands
The loss of future starts inside the home
When children learn to cope all alone

7. Supplementary

[Verse 1]
In families where the bottle calls the shots
Children learn to play their scripted parts
Hero child achieves to make things right
Scapegoat acts out all the family's pain
Lost child fades into the background quiet
Mascot jokes to ease the tension's strain

[Chorus]
When tomorrow feels too far away
And the future starts to fade to gray
Family roles become the only way
To survive another day
Lost dimension, missing vision
Hope gets clouded by addiction's prison

[Verse 2]
Sharon saw the patterns crystal clear
How each role protects but costs so dear
Perfect daughters learn to never fail
Carry weight that makes their spirits pale
Robert wrote about the price they pay
When childhood dreams all slip away

[Chorus]
When tomorrow feels too far away
And the future starts to fade to gray
Family roles become the only way
To survive another day
Lost dimension, missing vision
Hope gets clouded by addiction's prison

[Bridge]
Hero, scapegoat, lost child, clown
Each one keeps the family spinning 'round
But the cost is dreams that never grow
Future selves they'll never know

[Verse 3]
Adult daughters still play perfect games
Learned to shoulder guilt and carry shame
What was once protection as a child
Now keeps authentic self exiled
Breaking patterns starts with seeing clear
How the roles we learned brought us here

[Final Chorus]
When tomorrow feels too far away
And the future starts to fade to gray
Recognition shows another way
To reclaim a brighter day
Find dimension, build new vision
Break the chains of old decisions

[Outro]
Family roles were survival's art
But healing means a brand new start
The future's waiting to unfold
When we let go of patterns old

8. Reflection

[Verse 1]
She was seven when her mother walked away
No goodbye, no reason she could understand
At twelve her father found the bottle's embrace
Left her raising herself with trembling hands

No one there to catch her when she'd fall
No one there to paint tomorrow's dreams
When both your anchors drift beyond recall
Nothing's quite the way it ever seems

[Chorus]
Look in the mirror, see the reflection
Patterns that pass from heart to heart
When the future loses its direction
Before your own story gets to start
Multiplicative, not just additive pain
When both foundations wash away like rain
Look in the reflection

[Verse 2]
By twenty-one she'd learned to stand alone
Built walls so high that love couldn't break through
Independence was the only truth she'd known
But closeness felt like loss she'd lived before, it's true

She met your father with her armor on
Strong and capable, fierce in her own right
But underneath, tomorrow felt long gone
When no one taught her futures could burn bright

[Chorus]
Look in the mirror, see the reflection
Patterns that pass from heart to heart
When the future loses its direction
Before your own story gets to start
Multiplicative, not just additive pain
When both foundations wash away like rain
Look in the reflection

[Bridge]
Trust gets broken in the space between
Where child and parent should have been
Regulation never learned its song
Narrative fractured all along
The future's just a foreign land
When no one's there to hold your hand

[Verse 3]
So when she loved, she braced for the goodbye
When she dreamed, the endings felt untrue
The child who lost both parents learns to try
But battles ghosts in everything they do

This is the inheritance she carried
The reflection staring back at you
Understanding why her heart stayed wary
Helps you see your own reflection too

[Chorus]
Look in the mirror, see the reflection
Patterns that pass from heart to heart
When the future loses its direction
Before your own story gets to start
Multiplicative, not just additive pain
When both foundations wash away like rain
Look in the reflection

[Outro]
In the mirror, find compassion's light
For the child she was, for who you are
Breaking cycles starts with clearer sight
Looking deeper than the surface scars
Look in the reflection
See the reflection

9. The Question

[Verse 1]
Eighteen years old when the news came down
Dad's gone forever, won't be around
No more rules to follow, no voice to obey
But this freedom feels heavy in a strange new way

[Chorus]
When the guide disappears
What's the question that appears?
Who am I supposed to be
When there's no one watching me?
Future lost, dimension gone
How do I keep moving on?
When the guide disappears
What's the question that appears?

[Verse 2]
Used to hate his constant advice
"Be home by ten" and "think twice"
Now the silence echoes where his wisdom lived
And I'm drowning in the space that freedom gives

[Chorus]
When the guide disappears
What's the question that appears?
Who am I supposed to be
When there's no one watching me?
Future lost, dimension gone
How do I keep moving on?
When the guide disappears
What's the question that appears?

[Bridge]
Without his dreams pushing me ahead
I'm lost in choices, filled with dread
The wound isn't grief, it's something more
It's standing at an unmarked door

[Verse 3]
Freedom can hurt when it comes too fast
When the future you planned couldn't last
Now I'm asking what he'd never say
"What's my purpose? What's my way?"

[Final Chorus]
When the guide disappears
What's the question that appears?
Who am I supposed to be
When there's no one watching me?
Future lost, dimension gone
But I'll learn to carry on
When the guide disappears
I must answer what appears

[Outro]
The question lives inside me now
I'll find my way, I'll learn somehow
The future's mine to understand
Even without his guiding hand

10. Readings

[Verse 1]
When a parent dies too young, the world shifts overnight
Old enough to stand alone, but the future's lost its light
Levy tells us how it feels when father's voice goes quiet
The structure that held tomorrow breaks apart in silence

[Chorus]
Lost the future dimension, standing at the front
No one walking ahead now, bearing all the brunt
Premature maturity, holding others steady
When the one who held you up is gone already
Future opens like a void, not possibility
Learning how to carry on through lost security

[Verse 2]
Harris studied children who lost mothers way too soon
Found they learned to be the rock, beneath the grieving moon
Always looking for someone who needs their care and strength
'Cause the person meant to hold them went to unknown lengths

[Chorus]
Lost the future dimension, standing at the front
No one walking ahead now, bearing all the brunt
Premature maturity, holding others steady
When the one who held you up is gone already
Future opens like a void, not possibility
Learning how to carry on through lost security

[Verse 3]
Parkes mapped out the process when the grieving mind rebuilds
Who am I now that they're gone? Identity refilled
Transition phase so critical, constructing someone new
Travel far and study long to find what you must do

[Bridge]
Frankl found meaning in the darkest place
Even when the future has no familiar face
Search for purpose in the pain you bear
Find the reason why you're standing there

[Chorus]
Lost the future dimension, standing at the front
No one walking ahead now, bearing all the brunt
Premature maturity, holding others steady
When the one who held you up is gone already
Future opens like a void, not possibility
Learning how to carry on through lost security

[Outro]
Death removes more than a person from your life
Takes away the path ahead, cuts deep like a knife
But from the void can come a calling clear and true
To be the one who holds things steady, that's what you can do

11. Supplementary

[Verse 1]
When fathers fade before we're grown
Their absence cuts us to the bone
We learn to fill the empty space
By holding others in their place

[Chorus]
Supplementary, supplementary
We become what someone needs
Supplementary, supplementary
Losing ourselves to plant their seeds
The future dims when we're the glue
Holding others together true
Supplementary, supplementary
That's the wound that makes us bleed

[Verse 2]
Iron John knew the golden key
Was buried deep where we can't see
The boy who never met his dad
Grows up to give all that he had

[Chorus]
Supplementary, supplementary
We become what someone needs
Supplementary, supplementary
Losing ourselves to plant their seeds
The future dims when we're the glue
Holding others together true
Supplementary, supplementary
That's the wound that makes us bleed

[Bridge]
Winnicott warned about the cost
Of being strong when love is lost
We hold them up, we keep them whole
But sacrifice our very soul

[Verse 3]
Under Saturn's heavy weight
We learn to compensate too late
The dragon feeds on what we lack
And keeps our future looking back

[Final Chorus]
Supplementary, supplementary
We become what someone needs
Supplementary, supplementary
Losing ourselves to plant their seeds
But when we heal the father's wound
Our future self can be resumed
No more supplementary
We're free to truly lead

[Outro]
The absent father left a hole
But we can still reclaim our soul
The future waits for us to see
We're more than supplementary

12. Reflection

[Verse 1]
There was a young man traveling free
University days, wild and alive
Open to all that he could see
Until his father said goodbye
Grief cracked him open, made him soft
Searching for something to believe
The man who once lived dreams aloft
Now needed someone else to need

[Chorus]
When you're broken, you might choose
Someone else's deeper wound
Think you're helping, think you're strong
But you're filling holes in you
When you're broken, you might choose
Love that feels like being used
The caretaker and the saved
Both are running from their truth

[Verse 2]
He met her damage, saw her pain
And something deep inside him stirred
Not love despite her heavy chains
But love because of what he heard
His grief was looking for a home
A purpose big enough to stay
The orphaned son who used to roam
Found someone broken he could save

[Chorus]
When you're broken, you might choose
Someone else's deeper wound
Think you're helping, think you're strong
But you're filling holes in you
When you're broken, you might choose
Love that feels like being used
The caretaker and the saved
Both are running from their truth

[Bridge]
It works for years, this silent trade
Your wound becomes my sacred task
But slowly all your life will fade
When someone else's need's your mask
The future dies when present's pain
Becomes the only thing you know
Two broken people in love's name
But neither one can really grow

[Chorus]
When you're broken, you might choose
Someone else's deeper wound
Think you're helping, think you're strong
But you're filling holes in you
When you're broken, you might choose
Love that feels like being used
The caretaker and the saved
Both are running from their truth

[Outro]
Reflection shows us what we hide
The patterns that we can't quite see
Sometimes our love is grief disguised
And wounds attract what cannot heal

13. The Question

[Verse 1]
Sarah sees her partner Jake coming home each night
Shoulders heavy, spirit dim, nothing feels quite right
She thinks her love can fix his pain, make everything okay
But healing hearts aren't her job, though love wants her to stay

[Chorus]
Why do we try to heal what isn't ours to mend
The fixer's trap will steal your future in the end
You lose yourself while trying to save someone else
The question costs your dreams, your time, your mental health

[Verse 2]
Month by month she gives her all, her energy runs dry
Skips her goals, ignores her friends, her own dreams pass her by
Jake's depression stays the same, professional help he needs
But Sarah thinks her love's enough, planted fixing seeds

[Chorus]
Why do we try to heal what isn't ours to mend
The fixer's trap will steal your future in the end
You lose yourself while trying to save someone else
The question costs your dreams, your time, your mental health

[Bridge]
Love means supporting, not controlling their repair
Standing beside them, not carrying their despair
Your future matters too, don't let it slip away
Boundaries show you care in a healthy way

[Verse 3]
Two years later Sarah's lost, who was she before
All her plans are memories, dreams don't knock her door
Jake still struggles with his pain, she couldn't be his cure
Now they both need healing help, that's what love is for

[Chorus]
Why do we try to heal what isn't ours to mend
The fixer's trap will steal your future in the end
You lose yourself while trying to save someone else
The question costs your dreams, your time, your mental health

[Outro]
Love with boundaries, heal yourself first
Support don't fix, or your future's dispersed
The question shows us where the line should be
Your future matters in this you and me

14. Readings

[Verse 1]
Sarah reads about the patterns in her heart
Norwood shows the way love falls apart
When healing becomes the only goal
And fixing others costs your soul
Not masochism, something deeper still
The belief that love can always heal

[Chorus]
Future lost, present trapped
In the cycle, can't step back
Benjamin says recognize
Bowen shows where fusion lies
Lerner's dance of over-under
Future dimension torn asunder

[Verse 2]
Jessica Benjamin writes of mutual sight
When both partners have their inner light
But subjects become just functions now
In survival systems, love turns sour
Recognition fades when one dissolves
Into the other's problems to solve

[Chorus]
Future lost, present trapped
In the cycle, can't step back
Benjamin says recognize
Bowen shows where fusion lies
Lerner's dance of over-under
Future dimension torn asunder

[Verse 3]
Murray Bowen calls it fusion state
When boundaries disappear too late
One absorbs the other's fear and pain
Their own emotions down the drain
Differentiation lost in care
No future self is growing there

[Bridge]
Harriet Lerner sees the dance
Overfunctioner's last chance
Trading inner life away
For managing each single day
The future shrinks to just right now
Caretaking is all they know

[Chorus]
Future lost, present trapped
In the cycle, can't step back
Benjamin says recognize
Bowen shows where fusion lies
Lerner's dance of over-under
Future dimension torn asunder

[Outro]
Read these chapters, understand
How love becomes a losing hand
When purpose shifts from growth to heal
The future stops becoming real
Norwood, Benjamin, Bowen, Lerner too
Show the path to something new

15. Supplementary

[Verse 1]
Behind the mask of doing right, a man can lose his way
Keeping promises and schedules while his dreams just fade away
The future feels like distant fog when duty fills your days
And passion gets buried deep beneath responsible displays

[Chorus]
When tomorrow disappears from view
And all you see is what you're supposed to do
The future's lost its meaning true
Supplementary hearts need healing too
Need healing too

[Verse 2]
In marriage beds where silence grows, two people drift apart
One gives their all while hiding pain, protecting their own heart
Differentiation means you stand as yourself within the dance
Not losing who you are inside for love's false circumstance

[Chorus]
When tomorrow disappears from view
And all you see is what you're supposed to do
The future's lost its meaning true
Supplementary hearts need healing too
Need healing too

[Bridge]
Depression wears a working man's disguise
Shows up on time with vacant eyes
The future dies when we can't feel
What makes our deeper longings real

[Verse 3]
To find your future once again, you have to face the now
Stop hiding pain behind your roles and make yourself a vow
That being reliable and strong won't steal your passion's fire
The future lives when you can hold both duty and desire

[Final Chorus]
When tomorrow comes back into view
You'll see there's more than what you're supposed to do
The future finds its meaning true
When supplementary hearts start healing too
Start healing too

[Outro]
The future's there when you can be
Both responsible and truly free

16. Reflection

[Verse 1]
A young man lost his father's guiding hand
Now floating free without a place to stand
She grew up with no foundation stone
Two broken hearts, both feeling so alone

[Chorus]
When freedom meets the need for ground
A dangerous fit can be found
He gives his future, she takes the pain
Reflection shows what both will gain and lose again
Look back and see, look back and learn
How love can heal but futures burn

[Verse 2]
He thought it was his calling, felt like love
The first thing that made sense since stars above
Stopped shining when his father passed away
She needed saving, he found his way

[Chorus]
When freedom meets the need for ground
A dangerous fit can be found
He gives his future, she takes the pain
Reflection shows what both will gain and lose again
Look back and see, look back and learn
How love can heal but futures burn

[Bridge]
It wasn't sacrifice to him back then
It was purpose, meaning, life again
But willingness to set himself aside
Became the thing that made his future hide
Not stolen, no, but freely given away
Neither knew the price they'd have to pay

[Verse 3]
Now looking back through time's revealing lens
We see how broken hearts can make amends
But healing others while you're incomplete
Can make your future face defeat

[Chorus]
When freedom meets the need for ground
A dangerous fit can be found
He gives his future, she takes the pain
Reflection shows what both will gain and lose again
Look back and see, look back and learn
How love can heal but futures burn

[Outro]
Reflect on love, reflect on loss
Count every gain and every cost
The future fades when present pain
Becomes the only thing that we can sustain

17. The Question

[Verse 1]
Sarah met him when she was twenty-three
He was charming but his moods would swing so free
One day he's up, the next he's crashing down
She learned to tiptoe, never make a sound

When he exploded, she would hold her breath
When he was silent, she feared what came next
Years went by and she began to see
His chaos living now inside of me

[Chorus]
What happens when you breathe their storm?
What happens when their pain becomes your norm?
The question that we need to face
When someone else's hurt takes your place
You lose yourself, you lose your way
You lose tomorrow, live their today
The question burns: What happens when
You absorb their dysregulation?

[Verse 2]
Tommy's dad came home angry every night
Mom would shake and Tommy held her tight
He learned to read the danger in the air
To sense the tension everywhere

His nervous system learned to stay on guard
His little heart was beating way too hard
Now he's grown but still he can't relax
Still carrying those childhood attacks

[Chorus]
What happens when you breathe their storm?
What happens when their pain becomes your norm?
The question that we need to face
When someone else's hurt takes your place
You lose yourself, you lose your way
You lose tomorrow, live their today
The question burns: What happens when
You absorb their dysregulation?

[Bridge]
Mirror neurons fire in sync
We catch emotions faster than we think
When someone's chaos fills the space
It rewires our internal place

The future fades when we're stuck in their past
Their triggers become our shadows that last
We lose our dreams, we lose our plans
Living life with someone else's hands

[Chorus]
What happens when you breathe their storm?
What happens when their pain becomes your norm?
The question that we need to face
When someone else's hurt takes your place
You lose yourself, you lose your way
You lose tomorrow, live their today
The question burns: What happens when
You absorb their dysregulation?

[Outro]
The answer starts with asking why
Why did I learn to dim my light?
Recognition is the key
To set your future self free

18. Readings

[Verse 1]
Father entered with his time intact
Though grief had shaken what he'd always known
But living in her world where futures crack
He lost his way to call tomorrow home
Stolorow shows how trauma breaks the flow
Of past and present, future disappears
When partners share a world where time won't go
The ground beneath dissolves through all the years

[Chorus]
When trauma spreads from heart to heart
The future shrinks, falls apart
Hypervigilant, watching moods
Time gets trapped in present loops
Secondary stress takes hold
Future stories won't unfold
Living in someone else's pain
Makes your own time break the same

[Verse 2]
Rothschild names what helpers know too well
Absorbing others' trauma as your own
The empathic heart begins to swell
With wounds that weren't originally grown
The same symptoms start to appear
Constriction, narrowing of sight
Tomorrow fades, only now is here
Caught in someone else's endless night

[Chorus]
When trauma spreads from heart to heart
The future shrinks, falls apart
Hypervigilant, watching moods
Time gets trapped in present loops
Secondary stress takes hold
Future stories won't unfold
Living in someone else's pain
Makes your own time break the same

[Bridge]
Van der Kolk shows the nervous system learns
To dance around another's triggered state
Your body keeps the score, it twists and turns
Reorganized by love that can't escape
Carnes reveals the betrayal bond
Hope that this time closeness stays
Bonded to the cycle's song
Lost in intimacy's maze

[Verse 3]
The partner isn't neutral, standing by
They're pulled into the traumatized field
Modulating self so moods don't fly
Their future to the other's past must yield
Next hour, next shift, next crisis call
The future shrinks to what's ahead
When trauma's world becomes your all
Tomorrow's hope is nearly dead

[Chorus]
When trauma spreads from heart to heart
The future shrinks, falls apart
Hypervigilant, watching moods
Time gets trapped in present loops
Secondary stress takes hold
Future stories won't unfold
Living in someone else's pain
Makes your own time break the same

[Outro]
Time disrupted, love transmitted
Future lost but not forgotten
Healing means reclaiming tomorrow
From the depths of shared sorrow

19. Supplementary

[Verse 1]
When trauma hits the helper's heart
The future starts to fall apart
No dreams of better days ahead
Just endless cycles filled with dread
The nervous system can't discern
Between what's safe and what will burn

[Chorus]
Future lost, hope can't grow
When your guard won't let it go
Supplementary lessons teach us why
Safety signals pass us by
Future lost, hope can't grow
Healing starts when we let go

[Verse 2]
Compassion fatigue takes its toll
On every helper's weary soul
The polyvagal pathway shows
How threat detection overflows
When neural circuits stay on high
The future's just a question why

[Chorus]
Future lost, hope can't grow
When your guard won't let it go
Supplementary lessons teach us why
Safety signals pass us by
Future lost, hope can't grow
Healing starts when we let go

[Bridge]
Figley's wisdom, Porges' science
Both reveal the same reliance
On a nervous system free
To see what good tomorrow brings
When we're stuck in fight or flight
Future fades from inner sight

[Verse 3]
But understanding is the key
To set our future selves free
When helpers learn these deeper ways
They can reclaim their hopeful days
The vagus nerve can find its peace
And let the future grief release

[Chorus]
Future found, hope can grow
When your guard learns to let go
Supplementary lessons show us how
Safety signals matter now
Future found, hope can grow
This is how we learn to know

[Outro]
Tomorrow calls, tomorrow waits
For healing hearts to open gates
The future's there for those who see
That safety sets the spirit free

20. Reflection

[Verse 1]
There was a man who traveled far and wide
Through European streets with dreams inside
But when his father passed away one day
He learned that someone has to choose to stay

[Pre-Chorus]
The ground beneath us needs someone to hold
The weight of others, steady and controlled

[Chorus]
When you lose your future, you become the floor
Trading dreams for duty at the family door
Ground doesn't grow, ground doesn't move
Ground just stays while others improve
Someone's got to be the steady thing
Give up their flight to let others sing

[Verse 2]
Your mother needed someone strong and true
A foundation she could anchor to
So father made that sacrifice complete
Gave up his journey for her solid feet

[Pre-Chorus]
The cruel arithmetic of love demands
Someone stays still while the other expands

[Chorus]
When you lose your future, you become the floor
Trading dreams for duty at the family door
Ground doesn't grow, ground doesn't move
Ground just stays while others improve
Someone's got to be the steady thing
Give up their flight to let others sing

[Bridge]
The irony cuts deep and true
What grief can make a person do
Instead of "life is short, so live"
He chose "my turn now to give"
The traveler became the ground
Where others' dreams could be found

[Final Chorus]
When you lose your future, you become the floor
Trading dreams for duty at the family door
Ground doesn't grow, ground doesn't move
Ground just stays while others improve
But someone's got to break the chain
Before the pattern grows again

[Outro]
From father's loss to father's choice
The future lost its singing voice

21. The Question

[Verse 1]
Little eyes are watching as the morning starts
Mom checks her phone with worried, racing heart
Dad talks about tomorrow like it's slipping away
While sister counts the hours left in every day

[Pre-Chorus]
They don't say the words out loud
But the feeling fills the house

[Chorus]
Children catch the time like water
Absorbing what they see
Future fear or future wonder
Sets their young hearts free
No one has to teach the lesson
Time flows through the air
Kids breathe in the family's rhythm
Tomorrow's everywhere

[Verse 2]
When parents plan for next week with excitement bright
Children learn that future holds a golden light
But when grown-ups sigh and worry about what's ahead
Kids absorb that heavy feeling, words unsaid

[Pre-Chorus]
They don't say the words out loud
But the feeling fills the house

[Chorus]
Children catch the time like water
Absorbing what they see
Future fear or future wonder
Sets their young hearts free
No one has to teach the lesson
Time flows through the air
Kids breathe in the family's rhythm
Tomorrow's everywhere

[Bridge]
Calendar pages turning
Stress or joy is burning
Little hearts are learning
How to feel about tomorrow
From the air they borrow
Every hope and sorrow

[Chorus]
Children catch the time like water
Absorbing what they see
Future fear or future wonder
Sets their young hearts free
No one has to teach the lesson
Time flows through the air
Kids breathe in the family's rhythm
Tomorrow's everywhere

[Outro]
Time flows through the air
Tomorrow's everywhere
Kids just breathe it in
Let their future begin

22. Readings

[Verse 1]
When a parent's heart is somewhere else in time
Lost in their own past, can't see the present sign
The child reaches out but finds an empty space
Love is there but attention's displaced
Stern showed us what responsive really means
Not perfect parents, just present in the scene

[Chorus]
Future lost, present ghost
When the past haunts the most
Attunement breaks, connection fades
In the shadows that trauma made
See me here, see me now
But they can't remember how

[Verse 2]
Fraiberg called them "ghosts inside the nursery"
Parents who are there but lost in history
Your mother's inner child crying out for care
Your father's grief hanging in the air
Two generations pulling at their minds
While you grew up between the battle lines

[Chorus]
Future lost, present ghost
When the past haunts the most
Attunement breaks, connection fades
In the shadows that trauma made
See me here, see me now
But they can't remember how

[Bridge]
Tronick's still face shows what happens when
Connection stops and starts again
Two minutes breaks an infant's trust
Now imagine years of emotional rust
The marriage was a closed-loop need
No energy left for the growing seed

[Verse 3]
Minuchin mapped the family design
Proximity and distance, who gets left behind
When parents make a circuit of their pain
Children learn to grow outside the main
Responsive means "I see where you are going"
But how can they when their future's not showing

[Chorus]
Future lost, present ghost
When the past haunts the most
Attunement breaks, connection fades
In the shadows that trauma made
See me here, see me now
Learning what they couldn't allow

[Outro]
Not because the love wasn't real
Just couldn't access what you need to feel
The scaffold to tomorrow starts today
But ghosts can steal that gift away

23. Supplementary

[Verse 1]
When families get stuck in old patterns and pain
Three people in triangles, stress goes round again
Bowen showed us how the past keeps coming through
Generations passing trauma, what are we to do?

[Chorus]
Lost the future dimension, can't see what's ahead
Right brain to right brain, where feelings are fed
Supplementary healing, we need both sides whole
Regulation and connection, mind and heart and soul

[Verse 2]
Allan Schore discovered how our brains align
Right hemisphere talking, crossing every line
Caregiver and baby, matching rhythm and tone
Building inner structure, never truly alone

[Chorus]
Lost the future dimension, can't see what's ahead
Right brain to right brain, where feelings are fed
Supplementary healing, we need both sides whole
Regulation and connection, mind and heart and soul

[Bridge]
When anxiety rises, we triangle away
Pull a third person in, avoid what we should say
But affect regulation starts before we speak
Right brain recognition, that safety we seek

[Verse 3]
Multigenerational transmission flows like a stream
Unresolved emotions, disrupting every dream
But when we learn to regulate, feel safe in our skin
The future opens up, and healing can begin

[Chorus]
Lost the future dimension, can't see what's ahead
Right brain to right brain, where feelings are fed
Supplementary healing, we need both sides whole
Regulation and connection, mind and heart and soul

[Outro]
Bowen and Schore together, showing us the way
Past patterns and present feelings, healing day by day

24. Reflection

[Verse 1]
When I think back to those quiet nights
Something heavy in the air
Not the words that filled the silence
But the dreams that weren't there
Dad sat still in his old armchair
Mom just stared out at the street
Was it peace or was it frozen
This rhythm incomplete

[Chorus]
What's the weather in your memory
Not the storm but how it felt
When tomorrow seemed so distant
And the future slowly melt
Read the pressure, feel the climate
Of the home that shaped your heart
What was missing from the forecast
What got lost before the start

[Verse 2]
Did they talk about your wedding
Did they plan your graduation
Or did time just keep on flowing
Without dreams or destination
Children sense the atmosphere
Like a barometer inside
You may not know what was broken
But you felt the shift and tide

[Chorus]
What's the weather in your memory
Not the storm but how it felt
When tomorrow seemed so distant
And the future slowly melt
Read the pressure, feel the climate
Of the home that shaped your heart
What was missing from the forecast
What got lost before the start

[Bridge]
Waiting, waiting in the hallway
Heavy clouds that wouldn't break
Conversations never started
All the chances no one'd take
Was that strength or was it stillness
When he stopped his forward motion
Did the family dock get anchored
In a slow and timeless ocean

[Chorus]
What's the weather in your memory
Not the storm but how it felt
When tomorrow seemed so distant
And the future slowly melt
Read the pressure, feel the climate
Of the home that shaped your heart
What was missing from the forecast
What got lost before the start

[Outro]
Look beyond the words they said to you
Feel the weather of what's true
In the silence find the answers
To the dreams that never grew

25. The Question

[Verse 1]
Little eyes are watching everything we do
Words we never say speak louder than what's true
When we rush and worry 'bout tomorrow's pain
Children learn that future's just a scary game

When we cancel plans and dreams just fade away
When we say "we can't afford it, not today"
Silent lessons teaching what we never meant
Future's not for us, our hope is nearly spent

[Chorus]
The question forms in silence, never spoken out loud
How does doubt grow bigger when it hides behind the crowd?
No one has to tell them that their dreams might not come true
They just watch and wonder if the future's meant for you

The message travels deeper than the words we say
When tomorrow feels too dangerous to plan today

[Verse 2]
See the grown-ups panic when they read the news
Hear them whisper softly 'bout the bills we'll lose
Children's minds are learning from the stress they see
That the world ahead's not safe for you and me

When we speak of college like it's out of reach
When we act like happiness is hard to teach
Every worried glance becomes a lesson learned
That the future's something we have never earned

[Chorus]
The question forms in silence, never spoken out loud
How does doubt grow bigger when it hides behind the crowd?
No one has to tell them that their dreams might not come true
They just watch and wonder if the future's meant for you

The message travels deeper than the words we say
When tomorrow feels too dangerous to plan today

[Bridge]
In the spaces between what we do and what we dream
In the pause before we answer what tomorrow means
That's where children learn to make their hearts grow small
Wonder if there's any future there at all

[Chorus]
The question forms in silence, never spoken out loud
How does doubt grow bigger when it hides behind the crowd?
No one has to tell them that their dreams might not come true
They just watch and wonder if the future's meant for you

The message travels deeper than the words we say
When tomorrow feels too dangerous to plan today

[Outro]
Little hearts are listening to the songs we never sing
About the hope we're missing and the joy tomorrow brings

26. Readings

[Verse 1]
Little minds watch how the world unfolds
Through the eyes of those who hold them close
When mama's future starts to fade away
The child learns tomorrow's not a safe place to stay
Bowlby saw the pattern clear and true
Attachment shapes the worldview that we grew
Mental models built on what we see
Determines who we're gonna be

[Chorus]
Lost futures, stolen time
When the parent's pain becomes the child's design
Four authors, four ways to see
How trauma steals our destiny
Bowlby, Miller, Crittenden too
Walker shows us what survivors do
The gifted child reads every need
But loses their own future's seed

[Verse 2]
Miller's gifted child is smart indeed
At reading what the broken parent needs
Suppressing self to serve another's now
Trading their tomorrow for the here and how
Temporal labor, emotional cost
The child's own path forever lost
Attuned to suffering, tuned out from dreams
Nothing is quite what it seems

[Chorus]
Lost futures, stolen time
When the parent's pain becomes the child's design
Four authors, four ways to see
How trauma steals our destiny
Bowlby, Miller, Crittenden too
Walker shows us what survivors do
The gifted child reads every need
But loses their own future's seed

[Verse 3]
Crittenden's model shows the strategic mind
Hypervigilant, compulsively kind
False cheerfulness to manage their state
While the child's development has to wait
Dynamic patterns, adaptations formed
To weather every emotional storm
Each strategy a temporal trade
Present safety for future's fade

[Bridge]
Walker names the four F's we know
Fight and flight still help us grow
But freeze and fawn collapse the time
Make us live in others' paradigm
From surviving to thriving is the goal
But first we must reclaim our soul
The future's ours to build anew
When we break through what trauma grew

[Chorus]
Lost futures, stolen time
When the parent's pain becomes the child's design
Four authors, four ways to see
How trauma steals our destiny
Bowlby, Miller, Crittenden too
Walker shows us what survivors do
The gifted child reads every need
But loses their own future's seed

[Outro]
Internal working models can change
The future's not beyond our range
Though childhood taught us to live in fear
Tomorrow's hope is drawing near

27. Supplementary

[Verse 1]
Little Sarah plays alone but feels secure inside
Mama's in the kitchen, daddy's by her side
This capacity to be alone while knowing love is near
Winnicott discovered what makes solitude feel clear

[Chorus]
When the future gets cut short, when tomorrow disappears
Children lose their sense of time, replaced by endless fears
Supplementary learning shows us what we need to see
How trauma steals the future from a child's reality

[Verse 2]
Terr studied children who had lived through scary days
Found their sense of time had changed in devastating ways
No more planning birthday parties, no more dreams at night
Just a shortened view of life, no future burning bright

[Chorus]
When the future gets cut short, when tomorrow disappears
Children lose their sense of time, replaced by endless fears
Supplementary learning shows us what we need to see
How trauma steals the future from a child's reality

[Bridge]
Being alone should feel okay when love is standing by
But when the world feels dangerous, hope begins to die
The capacity gets broken, future thinking fades away
Living only for today, tomorrow's too afraid

[Verse 3]
Chapter three through five reveal the patterns that emerge
When children can't imagine growth, their timeline starts to merge
Past and present blur together, future seems so small
Supplementary knowledge helps us understand it all

[Chorus]
When the future gets cut short, when tomorrow disappears
Children lose their sense of time, replaced by endless fears
Supplementary learning shows us what we need to see
How trauma steals the future from a child's reality

[Outro]
So we study Winnicott and Terr to comprehend
How to help restore the future, help young hearts to mend

28. Reflection

[Verse 1]
When danger came knocking at your childhood door
Did you fight back or run across the floor
Maybe you froze like a statue made of stone
Or learned to please to survive on your own

[Chorus]
Fight, flight, freeze, or fawn
Which response did you put on
Four ways children learn to cope
Trading future dreams for hope
The patterns that we learned back then
Still echo in our hearts again

[Verse 2]
Now you build systems with incredible skill
Companies, frameworks that bend to your will
But deep down inside there's a voice that's unclear
Whispering softly that you won't be here

[Chorus]
Fight, flight, freeze, or fawn
Which response did you put on
Four ways children learn to cope
Trading future dreams for hope
The patterns that we learned back then
Still echo in our hearts again

[Bridge]
You read every room like a weather report
Scanning for storms before they distort
The hyperawareness that keeps you alert
Came from a time when watching didn't hurt

[Verse 3]
A child's job is playing, dreaming, growing free
Not monitoring adults' fragility
The skills that make you brilliant today
Came from a burden you carried away

[Chorus]
Fight, flight, freeze, or fawn
Which response did you put on
Four ways children learn to cope
Trading future dreams for hope
The patterns that we learned back then
Still echo in our hearts again

[Outro]
Now you're building tomorrow but can't quite believe
That the future is something you're meant to receive
The monitoring wasn't supposed to be yours
But it opened up unexpected doors

29. The Question

[Verse 1]
Grandpa built his life with purpose clear
Dreams that stretched beyond tomorrow's dawn
But somewhere in the passing years
The future faded and was gone
Now he sits and speaks of yesterday
While his children learned to do the same
The vision died along the way
And passed down like a family name

[Chorus]
Future lost, future gone
Traveling down the family line
Generation after generation
Missing dreams by design
What we lose, what we pass
Echoes through the family tree
Future lost becomes the past
That's the legacy we see

[Verse 2]
Mother had her chances once
To break the cycle, change the course
But fear spoke louder than her wants
And tradition was a stronger force
She taught her daughter how to settle
For the safety of what's known today
Dreams became too much to wrestle
So she pushed them all away

[Chorus]
Future lost, future gone
Traveling down the family line
Generation after generation
Missing dreams by design
What we lose, what we pass
Echoes through the family tree
Future lost becomes the past
That's the legacy we see

[Bridge]
From parent down to child it flows
This pattern that we can't escape
The future dies and no one knows
How to give tomorrow shape
But understanding breaks the chain
When we see what's been passed down
We can choose to dream again
And turn this whole thing around

[Chorus]
Future lost, future gone
Traveling down the family line
Generation after generation
Missing dreams by design
What we lose, what we pass
Echoes through the family tree
Future lost becomes the past
That's the legacy we see

[Outro]
The question asks us to explore
How time's dimension disappears
Through the family's open door
Across the generations' years

30. Readings

[Verse 1]
In the nursery shadows creep tonight
Fraiberg showed us ghosts we cannot see
Mother's mother left without goodbye
Passed her pain down generationally
Father tried to chase the spirits out
But created phantoms of his own
Unlived dreams became his haunting doubt
In this house no child grows up alone

[Chorus]
Ghosts in every generation
Trauma flows from past to present
Numb or fight or stay a victim
Danieli mapped the patterns sent
Three adaptational styles we learn
Fighter, victim, numb inside
When the future cannot return
Where do broken families hide?

[Verse 2]
Yehuda found it in our DNA
FKBP5 methylation changed
Holocaust survivors' children pay
With their biology rearranged
Not a metaphor but science true
Stress rewrites our genetic code
What your grandparents lived through
Shapes the path your neurons road

[Chorus]
Ghosts in every generation
Trauma flows from past to present
Numb or fight or stay a victim
Danieli mapped the patterns sent
Three adaptational styles we learn
Fighter, victim, numb inside
When the future cannot return
Where do broken families hide?

[Bridge]
Bowen saw anxiety cascade
Differentiation lost each time
Grandmother's abandonment parade
Becomes your mother's paradigm
Father absorbs her regulation loss
The system spreads its temporal pain
Each generation pays the cost
Of wounds that never heal again

[Verse 3]
The numb family shuts the future out
When hope becomes too much to bear
Fighter families battle and shout
Victim families live in despair
Which style did your household choose?
When the ghosts came out to play
There's no winning, only what you lose
When tomorrow fades away

[Chorus]
Ghosts in every generation
Trauma flows from past to present
Numb or fight or stay a victim
Danieli mapped the patterns sent
Three adaptational styles we learn
Fighter, victim, numb inside
When the future cannot return
Where do broken families hide?

[Outro]
In the nursery shadows creep tonight
But knowledge helps us see the way
Understanding brings us light
To break the chains of yesterday

31. Supplementary

[Verse 1]
When tragedy strikes a family line
The pain doesn't stop at one place in time
It travels forward through the years
Carrying forward all the fears
Parents who lost their future dreams
Pass down more than it first seems

[Chorus]
Transgenerational, it flows like a stream
From parent to child, the unfinished dream
When the future dimension gets lost in the past
The trauma keeps traveling, holding us fast
Supplementary grief, it compounds and grows
What one generation feels, the next one knows

[Verse 2]
Volkan showed us how groups choose
Their collective wounds, the ones they use
To define who they are today
By the price their ancestors paid
When early death takes mom or dad
The child inherits more than sad

[Chorus]
Transgenerational, it flows like a stream
From parent to child, the unfinished dream
When the future dimension gets lost in the past
The trauma keeps traveling, holding us fast
Supplementary grief, it compounds and grows
What one generation feels, the next one knows

[Bridge]
Lieberman found in her research clear
When young ones lose a parent dear
They don't just grieve for what they lost
But for futures that death has crossed
The wedding dance that'll never be
The grandchildren they'll never see

[Verse 3]
This supplementary sorrow grows
Beyond the primary pain one knows
It's not just missing who they were
But missing all that might occur
The chosen trauma of a group
Keeps the next generation in the loop

[Final Chorus]
Transgenerational, breaking the chain
Means facing both the loss and phantom pain
When the future dimension can be reclaimed
The supplementary grief can be renamed
From burden passed to story told
New futures written, brave and bold

[Outro]
The loss of future's heavy weight
But understanding breaks its fate
Supplementary doesn't have to mean
Forever trapped in others' dreams

32. Reflection

[Verse 1]
Grandmother left without a word or reason why
Left her daughter asking questions to an empty sky
Grandfather turned to bottles, checked out from the pain
Two wounds carved deep, a pattern starts its reign

[Chorus]
Map the chain, see the line
How the past shapes what we find
Future stolen, hope consumed
By the wounds we've inherited and assumed
Map the chain, break the spell
Name the story we know so well

[Verse 2]
Mother grew up with no ground beneath her feet
No sense of time that felt solid or complete
Father lost his dad when he was still so young
Left him hungry to be someone's solid rung

[Chorus]
Map the chain, see the line
How the past shapes what we find
Future stolen, hope consumed
By the wounds we've inherited and assumed
Map the chain, break the spell
Name the story we know so well

[Verse 3]
Her empty need met his desperate drive to fill
Two broken pieces finding perfect fit of will
Marriage became a project, closed and tight
Consuming all tomorrows just to make today right

[Bridge]
I grew up inside that system
Learned to breathe that recycled air
Now I'm holding my own son
And I wonder what he'll bear

[Verse 4]
The chain won't stop, that much is crystal clear
But naming it might change what happens here
Recognition is the doorway, not the cure
But seeing makes us conscious, that's for sure

[Chorus]
Map the chain, see the line
How the past shapes what we find
Future stolen, hope consumed
By the wounds we've inherited and assumed
Map the chain, break the spell
Name the story we know so well

[Outro]
The question isn't whether it continues on
The question is what changes when the darkness meets the dawn
Map the chain, map the chain
See what's hidden in the pain

33. The Question

[Verse 1]
Walking through your code each day
Same routines in the same old way
But something's running underneath
A pattern hiding like a thief
You write the functions, call the class
But miss the ghost that's in the glass

[Chorus]
When the invisible becomes visible
Everything changeable is changeable
Patterns hidden start to show
Now you see what you didn't know
When the invisible becomes visible
Your future's flexible, so flexible
Break the cycle, change the flow
Transform the seeds before they grow

[Verse 2]
Sarah stared at her design
Thought the structure worked just fine
Till she traced the data's path
Saw the legacy's aftermath
Every module tightly bound
By assumptions underground

[Chorus]
When the invisible becomes visible
Everything changeable is changeable
Patterns hidden start to show
Now you see what you didn't know
When the invisible becomes visible
Your future's flexible, so flexible
Break the cycle, change the flow
Transform the seeds before they grow

[Bridge]
Recognition is the key
To unlock what you can't see
Hidden coupling, silent debt
Assumptions that aren't met
Shine a light on what's been dark
Question every question mark

[Verse 3]
Now she maps the secret ways
Data flows through hidden maze
Dependencies reveal their face
Time to put them in their place
What was fixed can now be free
When you see reality

[Chorus]
When the invisible becomes visible
Everything changeable is changeable
Patterns hidden start to show
Now you see what you didn't know
When the invisible becomes visible
Your future's flexible, so flexible
Break the cycle, change the flow
Transform the seeds before they grow

[Outro]
Look beneath what you assume
Find the patterns in the room
When you see what's always been
That's when real change can begin

34. Readings

[Verse 1]
When trauma breaks your timeline into scattered broken pieces
The future seems to vanish, hope just slowly decreases
But Herman says the healing starts with naming what went wrong
Construct a narrative that puts events where they belong

Create a before and during, then the after can begin
When you say "this happened to them, this is how it reached within"

[Chorus]
Name it, claim it, put it in its place
Mentalize, recognize what time cannot erase
From body into language, from frozen into flow
The story that you tell yourself helps future start to grow
Name it, frame it, give it proper time
Redemption needs a sequence, healing needs a rhyme

[Verse 2]
Fonagy teaches mentalization, thinking about your thoughts
Observe your mental patterns like a scientist who's caught
The difference between feeling and the feeling that you feel
Say "I have shortened future sense" makes the abstract real

Distance from the pattern is the first step to be free
When trauma lives in body, words can set the timeline free

[Chorus]
Name it, claim it, put it in its place
Mentalize, recognize what time cannot erase
From body into language, from frozen into flow
The story that you tell yourself helps future start to grow
Name it, frame it, give it proper time
Redemption needs a sequence, healing needs a rhyme

[Bridge]
McAdams found that healthy minds write stories of redemption
Suffering that leads to growth needs future's perception
Van der Kolk shows trauma lives in posture and sensation
But speaking breaks the cycle, starts time's restoration

[Verse 3]
The body keeps the score in ways that words cannot express
But language is the bridge that moves you out of frozen stress
From reflex into narrative, from symptom into story
Transform the endless present into hope and future glory

[Final Chorus]
Name it, claim it, put it in its place
Mentalize, recognize what time cannot erase
From body into language, from frozen into flow
The story that you tell yourself helps future start to grow
Name it, frame it, give it proper time
Recovery needs a sequence, healing needs a rhyme

[Outro]
This happened, then this happened, now this is where I stand
The future opens up again when trauma's reprimanded

35. Reflection

[Verse 1]
You're already doing what we're learning here
The act of asking means you're still aware
That something might be different than it seems
You're building forward, chasing after dreams

When you suspect but don't collapse inside
You hold the question like a gentle guide
Not dramatizing what you think you know
Just investigating where the truth might go

[Chorus]
Reflection shows the future's still alive
In how you hold your doubts and still survive
You name the loss but don't become the pain
Tomorrow whispers through what still remains
Look closer at the way you carry on
The future lives in how you're moving forward

[Verse 2]
The paradox is beautiful and strange
You're studying if you can still make change
But asking means you haven't given up
There's something in you that still fills the cup

You treat your hunches like they need a test
Not final truth but paths that might be blessed
This careful dance between the doubt and hope
Shows future-thinking helped you learn to cope

[Chorus]
Reflection shows the future's still alive
In how you hold your doubts and still survive
You name the loss but don't become the pain
Tomorrow whispers through what still remains
Look closer at the way you carry on
The future lives in how you're moving forward

[Bridge]
Even when your childhood couldn't show
The way that forward-building learns to grow
Something in you found another way
To hold tomorrow in the work today

[Chorus]
Reflection shows the future's still alive
In how you hold your doubts and still survive
You name the loss but don't become the pain
Tomorrow whispers through what still remains
Look closer at the way you carry on
The future lives in how you're moving forward

[Outro]
The very act of learning how to see
Means future-you is who you're meant to be

36. The Question

[Verse 1]
Sarah sits in therapy today
Says her dreams just slipped away
Doctor asks her where it hurts
But the pain lives beyond words
In her chest a heavy stone
Future self feels so alone

[Chorus]
Where does the lost future hide
In the body deep inside
Shoulders tight and breathing shallow
Heart beats hollow, hard to swallow
Stories fail where touch succeeds
Body holds what spirit needs
Feel to heal, heal to feel
Soma makes the future real

[Verse 2]
Talking circles round and round
But the trauma can't be found
In the mind alone it seems
We can't rescue buried dreams
Drop down to the nervous system
That's where hope has gone missing

[Chorus]
Where does the lost future hide
In the body deep inside
Shoulders tight and breathing shallow
Heart beats hollow, hard to swallow
Stories fail where touch succeeds
Body holds what spirit needs
Feel to heal, heal to feel
Soma makes the future real

[Bridge]
Breath and movement start to shift
What pure words could never lift
Gentle touch and sensing flow
Help the frozen future grow
Not just thinking, start embodying
Tomorrow lives in breath and being

[Chorus]
Where does the lost future hide
In the body deep inside
Shoulders tight and breathing shallow
Heart beats hollow, hard to swallow
Stories fail where touch succeeds
Body holds what spirit needs
Feel to heal, heal to feel
Soma makes the future real

[Outro]
When tomorrow feels too far
Touch the place where feelings are
Body wisdom shows the way
To reclaim another day

37. Readings

[Verse 1]
When something happens that's too much to bear
Your body gets ready to fight or to care
But if you can't finish what started inside
The nervous system gets stuck in that ride
Not in the event but the response incomplete
Your body remembers what it couldn't complete

[Chorus]
It's not what happened, it's what didn't finish
The future gets lost when the present won't diminish
Stuck in "it's happening" instead of "it's done"
Your nervous system can't see what's to come
Complete the action, restore the time
Let your body know that you're doing fine

[Verse 2]
Polyvagal theory shows us the way
Three systems decide if we're safe enough to play
The ventral vagal needs safety to grow
For planning and dreaming and futures to know
If safety was missing when you were small
Future-thinking might not come natural at all

[Chorus]
It's not what happened, it's what didn't finish
The future gets lost when the present won't diminish
Stuck in "it's happening" instead of "it's done"
Your nervous system can't see what's to come
Complete the action, restore the time
Let your body know that you're doing fine

[Bridge]
Your posture holds stories of bracing and fear
Shoulders that carry what happened last year
Breathing restricted, ready for threat
Body remembers what mind might forget
Through movement and presence we unlock the door
From "this is happening" to "not anymore"

[Verse 3]
Sensorimotor shows us the signs
Tension patterns and postural lines
The body speaks in its own special way
Of futures that feel like they're too far away
But through gentle movement and feeling what's real
We help the nervous system learn how to heal

[Final Chorus]
It's not what happened, it's what didn't finish
The future gets lost when the present won't diminish
From "it's happening" to "it happened back then"
Your body can learn to feel future again
Complete the action, restore the time
Tomorrow is yours, and you're doing fine

38. Reflection

[Verse 1]
Close your eyes and think ahead five years
What do you feel inside your chest?
Does it open up with hope and dreams
Or does it tighten up with stress?
Your body knows what your mind won't say
About the future that you see
Is it warm expansion in your heart
Or cold contraction, can't breathe free?

[Chorus]
Check your body, feel the truth
Future's more than mental proof
Does it expand or does it shrink?
What you feel shows what you think
Diagnostic, automatic
Body speaks when mind goes static
Future lost or future found
Listen to your body's sound

[Verse 2]
You packed your bags and crossed the sea
Left Ukraine for a brand new start
Built a home in Canada
But does it feel like future's art?
Or just responses to today
Competent but feeling numb
Planning moves and making plans
But wonder if the future's come

[Chorus]
Check your body, feel the truth
Future's more than mental proof
Does it expand or does it shrink?
What you feel shows what you think
Diagnostic, automatic
Body speaks when mind goes static
Future lost or future found
Listen to your body's sound

[Bridge]
Raising children, learning language
Building life across the miles
These are acts of forward thinking
But do they bring you future smiles?
Sometimes planning isn't feeling
Sometimes doing isn't being
Check inside, what does it say
Is tomorrow just today?

[Chorus]
Check your body, feel the truth
Future's more than mental proof
Does it expand or does it shrink?
What you feel shows what you think
Diagnostic, automatic
Body speaks when mind goes static
Future lost or future found
Listen to your body's sound

[Outro]
When you think of years ahead
Feel your chest, feel your breath
Body wisdom tells you true
If the future lives in you

39. The Question

[Verse 1]
I thought my childhood pain would fade away
That time would heal what hurt me yesterday
But now I'm holding my own baby's hand
And seeing patterns I don't understand

[Chorus]
The future's lost before it's even born
When trauma gets passed down from worn to worn
Break the cycle, heal the chain
Give your children hope again
The future's lost, the future's lost
Unless we count the hidden cost

[Verse 2]
My parents fought the battles in their minds
With ghosts and fears they couldn't leave behind
I swore I'd be different, I'd be strong
But here I am, still singing the same song

[Chorus]
The future's lost before it's even born
When trauma gets passed down from worn to worn
Break the cycle, heal the chain
Give your children hope again
The future's lost, the future's lost
Unless we count the hidden cost

[Bridge]
What if tomorrow doesn't have to look like yesterday
What if the stories that we tell can light a different way
Recognition is the key that opens up the door
To futures that our families never had before

[Verse 3]
I'm learning how my wounds became their scars
How pain can travel near and travel far
But knowing means I have the power now
To change the story, break the sacred vow

[Final Chorus]
The future's found when we can see the chain
When trauma stops and healing can remain
Break the cycle, heal the pain
Give your children hope again
The future's found, the future's found
When love rebuilds on solid ground

[Outro]
The question isn't why we hurt this way
The question is: what future starts today?

40. Readings

[Verse 1]
Siegel found the secret hiding in our past
Not a perfect childhood, but a story told at last
Make sense of what happened, find your coherent thread
The strongest gift you'll give the child you're raising instead

[Chorus]
It's not what happened to you
It's the sense that you make
From the pieces of your story
And the narrative you create
Coherent understanding breaks the chain
Makes the future bright again
Not perfection, just reflection
On the child you used to be

[Verse 2]
Mary Main discovered something quite profound
Parents with hard childhoods, securely attached kids found
The key was not their happiness, but meaning they had made
From struggles and from sorrow, a coherent story laid

[Chorus]
It's not what happened to you
It's the sense that you make
From the pieces of your story
And the narrative you create
Coherent understanding breaks the chain
Makes the future bright again
Not perfection, just reflection
On the child you used to be

[Bridge]
Lieberman shows us ordinary magic flows
When we delight in children, see how their future grows
Our joy becomes their scaffold, our hope their guiding light
We give them time's dimension, make tomorrow bright

[Verse 3]
Plenty Coups faced ending, his whole world torn apart
But radical hope lived on inside his beating heart
Hope aimed at the unknown, not a plan or guarantee
Just staying turned toward futures we cannot yet see

[Final Chorus]
It's not what happened to you
It's the sense that you make
From the pieces of your story
And the narrative you create
Radical hope keeps burning through the pain
Makes the future live again
Not perfection, just direction
Toward what's yet to be

[Outro]
Make sense of your beginning
To give your child their start
The future lives in stories
We carry in our heart

41. Supplementary

[Verse 1]
When trauma hits a growing mind
The future starts to fade away
A child can't see what lies ahead
When fear takes over every day
The brain shuts down its planning parts
And lives in just the here and now
The loss of future dimension
Leaves them wondering why and how

[Chorus]
Future's lost, time stands still
When the brain forgets to heal
Past and present merge as one
Future planning's come undone
Whole brain thinking needs repair
To see tomorrow waiting there

[Verse 2]
The right brain holds emotions deep
While left brain makes the plans
But when they're disconnected
The future slips right through their hands
Integration is the key
To help them see what's yet to come
Connect the hemispheres again
Make both sides work as one

[Chorus]
Future's lost, time stands still
When the brain forgets to heal
Past and present merge as one
Future planning's come undone
Whole brain thinking needs repair
To see tomorrow waiting there

[Bridge]
Attachment breaks can steal hope away
Safety first, then dreams can grow
Name it to tame it, help them say
What they feel so they can know
Time-in not time-out builds the bond
Connect before you redirect
The future will return again
When they feel safe and protected

[Verse 3]
From brainstem survival up to cortex dreams
The ladder of the brain climbs high
When lower levels feel secure
The top can reach up to the sky
Co-regulation shows the way
To help them find their sense of time
The future dimension can return
When healing helps their brain to climb

[Final Chorus]
Future's found, time moves on
When the brain begins to heal
Past and present separate
Future planning becomes real
Whole brain thinking now repairs
Tomorrow's hope is waiting there

[Outro]
Integration lights the way
To see beyond today

42. Reflection

[Verse 1]
Grandmother left her daughter behind
A broken chain, a fractured line
But mother stayed though she was scarred
She held the ground, she played her part

[Verse 2]
Grandfather died before his time
Left father lost without a guide
But father stayed through all the pain
He broke the pattern's strongest chain

[Chorus]
Look back to see the pattern clear
Each generation faced their fear
The chain is breaking, piece by piece
Reflection brings us sweet release
You're the first to turn around
To name the wounds that can be found
That is not nothing, that's the key
That may be everything we need

[Verse 3]
Now here you stand with open eyes
You see the truth behind the lies
The systems code that runs so deep
The promises we couldn't keep

[Verse 4]
Like debugging broken code
You trace each pathway, each lost node
The architecture of our pain
Becomes visible again

[Chorus]
Look back to see the pattern clear
Each generation faced their fear
The chain is breaking, piece by piece
Reflection brings us sweet release
You're the first to turn around
To name the wounds that can be found
That is not nothing, that's the key
That may be everything we need

[Bridge]
Not perfectly, no one does it right
But seeing brings us to the light
When patterns lose their hidden power
We can change them from this hour

[Chorus]
Look back to see the pattern clear
Each generation faced their fear
The chain is breaking, piece by piece
Reflection brings us sweet release
You're the first to turn around
To name the wounds that can be found
That is not nothing, that's the key
That may be everything we need

[Outro]
Something held in every line
Imperfect love but love divine
The future's yours to redesign
Through reflection we will shine

43. The Question

[Verse 1]
Once we dreamed of flying cars and cities in the sky
Progress was a promise that would lift us ever high
But somewhere on the journey we lost sight of what could be
Now we're looking backward at our faded memory

[Chorus]
What comes after knowing what we've lost?
A future that's been tempered by the cost
Not naive hope but wisdom that we've earned
From ashes of the bridges that we burned
Rebuilt, renewed, but scarred by what we've learned

[Verse 2]
The optimism of our youth has cracked and shown its flaws
We've seen the unintended harm from good intentioned laws
Technology that promised freedom brought us chains instead
Now we're picking up the pieces of the dreams that died

[Chorus]
What comes after knowing what we've lost?
A future that's been tempered by the cost
Not naive hope but wisdom that we've earned
From ashes of the bridges that we burned
Rebuilt, renewed, but scarred by what we've learned

[Bridge]
Recovery means building with our eyes wide open
Learning from the promises that left us broken
Stronger at the places where we cracked apart
Guarding hope but grounding it in what we know
Moving forward carefully but still we go

[Verse 3]
The recovered future isn't bright and shining clean
It carries all the weight of everything we've seen
But in that weight there's wisdom and a harder kind of trust
Built on truth instead of dreams that crumble into dust

[Final Chorus]
This is what comes after what we've lost
A future that's been tempered by the cost
Not naive hope but wisdom that we've earned
From ashes of the bridges that we burned
Rebuilt, renewed, and scarred by what we've learned
The question isn't if we can return
But what kind of tomorrow we can earn

[Outro]
After loss comes wisdom
After falling comes the climb
A recovered future
Built on truth instead of time

44. Readings

[Verse 1]
Viktor Frankl said meaning isn't found
It's something that you choose when you're down
The future isn't waiting there for you
It's built through what you commit to do
When family history steals tomorrow's light
You have to construct what feels right

[Chorus]
Choose your meaning, build your future
Don't just wait for what might suit ya
Growth through trauma, something new
Not denying what you've been through
Hold both truths inside your heart
Future's real but can depart
Choose meaning, build tomorrow
Through the joy and through the sorrow

[Verse 2]
Tedeschi and Calhoun studied growth after pain
Post-trauma doesn't mean you're the same again
It's not going back to who you were before
It's something new that opens up the door
The recovered future knows about the loss
But chooses to exist despite the cost

[Chorus]
Choose your meaning, build your future
Don't just wait for what might suit ya
Growth through trauma, something new
Not denying what you've been through
Hold both truths inside your heart
Future's real but can depart
Choose meaning, build tomorrow
Through the joy and through the sorrow

[Bridge]
Yalom said that knowing death is near
Makes the future more precious and clear
Finite time gives meaning to our days
Between despair and hope we find our ways
Werner found three things that help us thrive
One caring adult keeps hope alive
A sense of purpose, support you can find
These build resilience in heart and mind

[Verse 3]
The awareness of mortality brings both fear and light
It makes tomorrow precious in our sight
Can you hold the paradox so true
Future's worth investing in but fragile too
Neither naive hope nor inherited despair
Just chosen meaning everywhere

[Final Chorus]
Choose your meaning, build your future
Don't just wait for what might suit ya
Growth through trauma, something new
Not denying what you've been through
Hold both truths inside your heart
Future's real but can depart
Choose meaning, build tomorrow
Through the joy and through the sorrow

[Outro]
Meaning chosen, future made
Through commitment, not afraid
Build tomorrow, hold it close
Choose the meaning that matters most

45. Supplementary

[Verse 1]
When the future feels so far away
And your dreams seem to fade and fray
There's a magic hiding in plain sight
In the small steps you take each night
Resilience grows in ordinary ways
Through the storms and sunny days

[Chorus]
Supplementary strength comes alive
When you adapt and learn to thrive
Little changes, day by day
Build the future in your own way
Not grand plans from way up high
But small actions that multiply

[Verse 2]
Ann Masten showed us how it works
Through the struggles and the quirks
Children bounce back stronger still
With ordinary magic and iron will
It's not superhuman power we need
Just adaptive thoughts and caring deeds

[Chorus]
Supplementary strength comes alive
When you adapt and learn to thrive
Little changes, day by day
Build the future in your own way
Not grand plans from way up high
But small actions that multiply

[Bridge]
Brown reminds us strategy emerges
From the small acts as it converges
Fractals growing, patterns flowing
Seeds of change that keep on growing
What seems lost can be restored
Through the power we've ignored

[Verse 3]
When tomorrow's hope seems gone
And you're struggling to move on
Look around for simple ways
To transform your darkest days
Future's built by what you do
In the moment, me and you

[Chorus]
Supplementary strength comes alive
When you adapt and learn to thrive
Little changes, day by day
Build the future in your own way
Not grand plans from way up high
But small actions that multiply

[Outro]
The future's not lost, it's here to find
In your adaptive heart and mind
Ordinary magic shows the way
Supplementary strength today

46. Reflection

[Verse 1]
I inherited empty tomorrows
A future that never felt real
Built my life on borrowed sorrows
Never learned how hope should feel
But now I'm laying foundation stones
Brick by brick, I claim my own

[Chorus]
Building futures, not just dreaming
Architecture of the heart
From the blueprints to believing
That's where healing has to start
Not the trust that others carry
But commitment, strong and true
Making futures real and steady
That's the work we have to do

[Verse 2]
Mojave rising from the ground
Teaching Alex how to speak
Every choice is future-bound
Every plan, a world I seek
Not the easy confidence
Of those who never doubted dawn
Mine's a harder, earned defense
A future consciously drawn

[Chorus]
Building futures, not just dreaming
Architecture of the heart
From the blueprints to believing
That's where healing has to start
Not the trust that others carry
But commitment, strong and true
Making futures real and steady
That's the work we have to do

[Bridge]
The question isn't if you have one
The future's there in all you've made
But can you feel it in your bones now
When the working stops and thoughts invade
From building it to living in it
That's the bridge you're crossing through
From planned tomorrow to the spirit
Of a future felt, not just pursued

[Verse 3]
In the quiet, blankness creeps
Old atmospheric doubt returns
But the future that you keep
Is the one for which love burns
Pass it on, this felt tomorrow
Not just plans upon a page
Give your child what you had to borrow
A future they can truly cage

[Final Chorus]
Building futures, now inhabiting
Architecture of the heart
From the blueprints to the living
That's where wholeness has its start
Not just trust but deep commitment
To the world that you create
Making futures real and present
That's how healing finds its gate

[Outro]
Brick by brick, the future's calling
In your bones, let hope take hold
From inheritance of falling
To a story you've controlled

47. Essential (Read These First)

[Verse 1]
When the future feels so far away
And tomorrow's just a word you say
There's a reason why you can't believe
In the dreams you used to weave
Herman shows us trauma's hidden cost
How our sense of time gets lost

[Chorus]
Seven guides to light the way
When the future's gone astray
Body keeps the score inside
Gifted child must learn to hide
Parenting from heart and mind
Frankl's meaning we must find
Complex healing takes its time
Radical hope will help us climb

[Verse 2]
Van der Kolk reveals the body's truth
How it holds our pain from youth
Every muscle, every bone
Remembers what we've always known
Alice Miller speaks of children bright
Who learned to dim their inner light

[Chorus]
Seven guides to light the way
When the future's gone astray
Body keeps the score inside
Gifted child must learn to hide
Parenting from heart and mind
Frankl's meaning we must find
Complex healing takes its time
Radical hope will help us climb

[Bridge]
Siegel shows us how to break the chain
Hartzell helps us heal the pain
Walker maps the complex road
From surviving to unload
Lear reminds us hope can grow
Even when we cannot know

[Verse 3]
Seven books to understand
Why the future slips like sand
Through our fingers when we're hurt
When our timeline feels dispersed
These are guides to help you see
How to set your future free

[Final Chorus]
Seven guides to light the way
When the future's gone astray
Read these first to understand
How to take time by the hand
Trauma steals tomorrow's dream
But healing's stronger than it seems

[Outro]
Start with these, they hold the key
To unlock what you can be
Future's waiting just beyond
The healing that makes you strong

48. Deep Engagement (Read These Second)

[Verse 1]
When tomorrow feels so far away
And the future fades to gray
Bowlby wrote of separation's pain
How attachment breaks the chain
Children lost without their guide
Future hope gets pushed aside

[Chorus]
Deep engagement, second read
Plant these authors in your head
Harris, Black, and Norwood too
Real and Levine guide us through
Fraiberg's ghosts still haunt today
When the future slips away

[Verse 2]
Maxine Harris speaks of loss forever
Childhood wounds we can't untether
When we lose what should have been
Future dreams can't begin
The hole remains where love should grow
And tomorrow's hard to know

[Chorus]
Deep engagement, second read
Plant these authors in your head
Harris, Black, and Norwood too
Real and Levine guide us through
Fraiberg's ghosts still haunt today
When the future slips away

[Verse 3]
Claudia Black says "never happen"
But the patterns keep on snappin'
Robin Norwood loves too much
Losing self in desperate touch
When we're stuck in painful ways
Future's lost in endless maze

[Bridge]
Terrence Real won't talk about
All the pain that shuts us out
Peter Levine wakes the tiger
Trauma makes the future lighter
Fraiberg's ghosts from nursery days
Haunt us in so many ways

[Chorus]
Deep engagement, second read
Plant these authors in your head
Harris, Black, and Norwood too
Real and Levine guide us through
Fraiberg's ghosts still haunt today
When the future slips away

[Outro]
Seven voices show the way
How the past steals our today
Read them deep to understand
Why tomorrow's hard to plan

49. Specialist and Theoretical

[Verse 1]
Allan Schore shows us how the brain develops
When attachment breaks, the future just unravels
Right hemisphere holds our emotional core
When trauma hits, we can't see what's in store
Affect regulation starts from day one
Without it, tomorrow feels already done

[Chorus]
Specialists and theorists mapping the way
How trauma steals tomorrow from today
Schore and Stolorow, Bowen's family tree
Benjamin's bonds and Fonagy's key
When the future disappears from view
These experts show us what trauma can do

[Verse 2]
Stolorow explains the world that trauma makes
When meaning crumbles and certainty breaks
The future becomes a threatening space
Instead of hope, we see only disgrace
Emotional worlds get frozen in time
Can't move forward when we're stuck in the rhyme

[Chorus]
Specialists and theorists mapping the way
How trauma steals tomorrow from today
Schore and Stolorow, Bowen's family tree
Benjamin's bonds and Fonagy's key
When the future disappears from view
These experts show us what trauma can do

[Verse 3]
Murray Bowen saw how families pass down
Anxiety patterns that keep us bound
Triangulation and fusion too tight
Makes planning ahead feel out of sight
Benjamin shows how dominance and submission
Blocks the future with repetition

[Bridge]
Porges found the nervous system's map
Polyvagal theory fills the gap
When we're in fight or flight or freeze
Future thinking's what we cease
McAdams speaks of redemptive tales
How narrative healing never fails

[Chorus]
Specialists and theorists mapping the way
How trauma steals tomorrow from today
Fonagy's mentalization helps us see
How reflecting sets the future free
When we understand what trauma can do
We can build a path to something new

[Outro]
Seven voices, one clear song
Showing how to heal what's wrong
The future waits for those who dare
To face the past with expert care

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