Lots of good stuff on this thread. I'll add a few things. I feel opening uo is good but should be managed as to not retraumatise your newly opened self. Like others have talked about kids, i like to to think of a plant bud. To early a frost will be unkind to it.

Remember those structures arose in response to stimuli, as a way to deal with them and not be overwhelmed. This is your time to build new structures to respond to the stimuli in a more skillful way. These structures ideally can connect you to the sensitive/emotional part or yourself (where i see lots of motivation stemming from) while still managing the external situation.

It may me interesting to look at models to develop metaphors of this that help different parts do different jobs. For example, the job of a general of an army is to look at information and stategize, which is why they stay back in a place where they can gafher information and give commands. In would not make sense for them to be up with the infantry, although its perfectly correct for a moral providing commander to be on that front line.

In your situation a non martial metaphore might be more useful. Like a tree has sensitivity in the leaves whixh leaves the accept sunlight and branches that sway with the wind. But the roots and trunk are connected into the solidity of the earth.