Therapeutic interventions involving carrying a picture of oneself at a younger age can serve as a bridge to self-understanding and forgiveness.

“carry around a picture of me at a certain age before certain things that happened that were pivotal in sort of shaping both the positive and negative aspects of my personality and the idea was at and again it just works out that way it worked out that way for me that my oldest son is at about that age and just for what it's worth looks like me so it became a very easy way to look at him and say well that was me and it turns out that that was the that was the bridge to understanding”