Dear Katherine,

Perhaps that quiet part of yourself is what St. Teresa would call the
cocooning phase? I'm hardly ever quiet but have been much, much quieter
this last 1.5 yrs. Now with my children in Spain, I'm quieter than
ever!!!!

My exception was today. I had coffee with Mary, a woman who is new to the
area. We melded, fused and flowed like long lost sisters. It is the very
first COMMUNITY I've felt since moving here! Well, besides Scot and his
gigantic family, 10 siblings. YIPPEE, it is a beginning!!!!!

We are thinking about starting a group in the area. One idea that came up
was a group around Forgiveness, Lord knows I need it. Has anyone got any
good ideas as to how it could be structured?? It would be VERY IMPORTANT
not to go into Woundology!!

BLESSINGS of GRACE,
Gina



On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 7:04 AM, iveeatenatoe <toveclan@...>wrote:

>
>
> My voice has been going quiet for sometime. I have been stuck in a "I dont
> know what to say" mode in group conversations for a long time.I went to a
> weekend course this weekend and found I could hardly get a word out. I
> literally was silent but it wasnt comfortable silence. I desparately wanted
> to fill the silence but simply couldnt. I'm still not sure what was going on
> there or what archetype may have had control of me that weekend. Gradually
> as the weekend progressed this part of me did find the courage to speak
> without script or story and since I have come back I have felt more
> confident and safer within myself.
>
> I read a wonderful poem by Kim Rosen yesterday and she talks about the
> abuser and the abused and it made me realise I have been both the abused
> and... AND the abuser to myself and that I need a voice within me to stop
> that abuser of me for I have been doing to myself in my head what was done
> to me. I can remember saying I would never do to anyone else what was done
> to me but it is a reaslisation to learn that here I am doing it to
> myself...makes me feel a deeper understanding of the person whose behaviour
> was abusive to wards me.
>
> Katherine
>
>
>



--
Gina
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