Probably the hardest part of any insight-producing contemplative practice, and thus the part people do the least of, is real life integration.
So it's super cool if you can stay present with your feelings, simultaneously embodying them and perceiving them as impersonal, but...
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... can you do it in difficult moment with a lover? Can you do it around your abusive family? At work?
In other words, can you do it when it actually matters?
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The dissolution of traumas or the loosening of attachments is a process you can do simply (if messily) in private, or with a teacher.
Try doing it in vivo, right in the middle of everything else. 'Simple' doesn't fit into that, anywhere.
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I think (good) shrinks are great to have, by dint of everyone being so messed up.
Personal mess does get in the way of practice and integration, constantly.
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It was genuinely so agonizing that I was stuck either just in agony or complaining about it. Worst sustained pain I've ever experienced. 0 breaks.
Couldn't focus enough to do anything, and too much in pain to take any perspective on it.