Comment by Joshua R. on 23 Jul 2010 at 6:07 pm

Hi Karen,

I got Richard Baer’s book Switching Time, and I finished it today. What was integrating with Karen Boo like?

Joshua

Dear Joshua,

Thank you for your interesting question! Karen Boo integrated with Thea, another alter. They merged together at the same time during one session. I believe that was best for Karen Boo, especially since she was an infant and unable to grasp the process of integration. I believe Karen Boo’s influence on my system was minimal. She just held a lot of feelings, but there was not too much of her to cause any integration problems. I believe Thea, as a merged alter, was more of an asset to merge within me, and she facilitated Karen Boo’s merger.

Karen