| joel |
| | 07/18/09 at 04:20 PM | Reply with quote | #1 |
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| So this thread is about sharing your experience, strength and hope about how you are brave. About how you are about being vulnerable and waiting to be asked or being vulnerable and asking.
There are all kinds of ways to look at this and be with this. The articles and support sections hopefully will help. And yet there is likely no better help than hearing and sharing. So please…
p.s. this is a brand new start on these discussion boards. Go to the Forum Archives Page for a sample of some of the wonderful old posts from long, long ago.
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| Lynne |
| | 08/17/09 at 03:55 PM | Reply with quote | #2 |
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It's very quiet in here..and I tiptoe in with reverence for the silence.
When I contemplated the questions below, I found myself smiling at how one formerly terrified woman found courage and strength in leaving her childhood home right after high school in order to survive...with no money, and two jobs. Then I smile at the woman who left her marriage after 22 years so that her soul could survive, despite having never developed a career, and again having no money or security. I walked to the beat of a different drummer than those in my childhood family and my husband.
Time went by and my spirit began to yearn for a new way...for spiritual growth and deeper knowing of who I am, and what I'd come to Earth to do. And so the journey intensified. This rather sedate former long time housewife, then typist, signed up for a Vision Quest Journey in the desert of Sedona. After being with a group for a few days, I was on a solo quest for three days and nights, with no food....no shelter...only my sleeping bag, a tarp and some water, some matches, and a journal and pen. What a powerful time. I cried for a vision of what my journey was about and I learned to love myself! I saw that I was to return and help others and that I was a courageous soul who had come to Earth at this time to assist somehow in the transitions we are all undergoing. I came home with a deep abiding understanding of my courage and strength.
In 2003 I went to Brazil to the healing center (casa) of John of God, a world renowned healer. Due to weather related mishaps, I missed meeting up with my group in Florida. I had to find my way around Brazil alone til I got someone to understand where I was going. It was my first time out of our country and I was terrified at first. I came home again understanding my courage and my strength.
I attended college and got my associates, bachelor's and master's degrees. I became a counselor, a healer, a non-denominational minister, and I spent much time on the inner search. I became a rape crisis counselor and then a crime victim's counselor for domestic violence survivors. I realized I hated working for the bureaucracy because it was more paperwork than people work. I started a part time healing practice and eventually my spirit could not tolerate working in the probation department doing interviews for orders of protection, in a cinderblock building with no LIGHT. I bravely took the plunge and went full time with my practice. I had to buck the system several years later when the credentialing requirements changed, and after a meeting with a state representative, let go of the term "psychotherapist" forever. I simply stepped into my role as healer, teacher, minister in a new way. How I love this life! Each soul who comes to sit with me or work with me becomes my teacher too. Their journeys touch me and my heart opens. I know I am where I need to be. I no longer doubt my courage, strength or commitment to this Universe. I follow intuition now, instead of letting fear talk me out of what I know I need to do.
It is this reason that I know I'm ready for a romantic relationship. I don't need anyone to fill a void in my life. I desire someone whom I can love and who loves me. It feels so good.
Many blessings to all, and much love as we walk together in this thing called Life.
Lynne
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| Mary |
| | 12/17/09 at 09:44 AM | Reply with quote | #3 |
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I have just recently become aware of the fact that I hide my vulnerability in relationship so well that I am actually pushing people away.
For ages I have heard how WRONG it is to show need of any kind, even a need for love and connection, so I masked this even from myself.
I did it so well that I am not even meeting people any more... they run from me like I am a monster or something. SO it is with GREAT bravery I now not only reveal my longing for connection, but embrace it and own it and disclose it freely.
This is me being very brave, and trusting.
My leap of faith.
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| Jimena |
| | 03/08/10 at 12:48 PM | Reply with quote | #4 |
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Exactly! We have to feel complete and fulfilled with ourselves, so then we can share the amazing person we are with the rest of the world. We dont need to fill any gaps. Nobody can make us feel a certain way, that is all up to us. It takes courage to take responsibility for our life and our happiness, but when we do it, the payoff is great. |
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