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Category Archives: Guidance
The Traumatized Baby
This is a repost of something first posted in July 2010. So amazing. Here I am working with parts before I had any idea about the Internal Family Systems work. It’s also how I’ve been feeling this week: “I feel … Continue reading
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Help from Inner Teacher
Written today. Looking back, I see that I’ve only written one post about the knee pain. Reading it reminds me that my early trauma can trigger me into feeling more helpless than I am. After one week of feeling considerably … Continue reading
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Help from Inner Teacher
Dear Inner Teacher, I’m feeling lost, confused, disconnected, uncomfortable, irritable. I really need some help! Dear Jenny, relax. Your meditation of imagining a prostration on the out breath, of emptying your self, or demonstrating “Thy will be done” — with … Continue reading
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“Conclude I can’t do it”
From my journal for Friday, November 17 I’m feeling very empty — not in a good way — this is more lack of meaning and connection. On my list for this week is get help for my cell phone from … Continue reading
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Help from Inner Teacher
Written on Sunday, October 22 Dear Inner Teacher, I’m feeling very lost, my brain is sluggish. I desperately need help. Dear Jenny, know that many spirits love you. If you can’t do anything practical except the minimum — feeding yourself … Continue reading
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Three-Centered Knowing
Written in writing group, Monday, July 3 I’ve been reading Cynthia Bourgeault’s book called The Wisdom Way of Knowing. She describes a retreat on an island in Maine with about 12 people. Their day was divided into chanting and praying, … Continue reading
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Dialogue between Wounded and Feisty
from my journal for Thursday, June 22 Dear Inner Teacher, I desperately need some help. Dear Jenny, you are so hard on yourself. You are harder on yourself than you are on anyone else. And you judge yourself without mercy. … Continue reading
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Forgiveness
I have been reading Christina Baldwin’s book called Life’s Companion; Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest. In the chapter on Forgiveness she describes what happens to people who refuse to forgive, and what happens to people who are not forgiven. I … Continue reading
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The Real Universe
From my journal for June 3, 1996, and posted in May 2010: But the truth is, going over the whole thing in detail again again, writing down exactly what the fear feels like and then seeing how it matches my … Continue reading
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Working to remember “My Prayer”
This morning I woke up feeling utterly unloved and hopeless, in a world where there is no spirit. The song in my head is “Diamonds and Rust,” Joan Baez’s amazing song about her love affair with Bob Dylan. I listened … Continue reading
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