Category Archives: Healing

“When the Heart Waits”

Posted on January 21, 2011 by jenny

(Written in January 2008) I’m tired and discouraged and completely confused about what to do next. Maybe instead of trying to figure it out I could just wait for some guidance from outside, or a clear impulse from inside. Reading … Continue reading →

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Stopping the Chain of Abuse

Posted on January 17, 2011 by jenny

Journey into Courage brought me two amazing experiences of perpetrators turned around by our performance. Journey into Courage is a theater piece, written and performed by women who are survivors of domestic violence. Our work was guided and organized by … Continue reading →

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Self Love & Guidance

Posted on January 11, 2011 by jenny

(Written in November 2010) I’ve just read through the document I made of “good things people have said about me.” I’m thinking of reading it at the ritual but I’m also scared to. Also realize that it’s not that I … Continue reading →

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Lonely

Posted on January 9, 2011 by jenny

(Written in August 2009) I’m feeling bleak. I haven’t been able to connect with any of the people on my support team. Beverly D called late yesterday in response to my message. We had a good talk. She’d love to … Continue reading →

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Epiphany

Posted on January 6, 2011 by jenny

The dictionary defines “Epiphany” as a “revelatory manifestation of a divine being.” An event in which the essence of something is revealed to someone “as in a sudden flash of recognition.” The Feast of the Epiphany, January 6, celebrates the … Continue reading →

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Book About “Katie”

Posted on January 5, 2011 by jenny

(Written in August 2009) I started reading a book Lynelle got on interlibrary loan: Daniel Hughes “Building the Bonds of Attachment.” It’s a fictional account of “Katie” who was abused and neglected in her family of origin, and was so … Continue reading →

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Conversation About Inner Work

Posted on January 3, 2011 by jenny

(Written in July 2009) Good talk with Elizabeth. We talked about inner work and how it affected the human energy field. She was in doubt about whether inner work really made a difference if you didn’t take outer action. I … Continue reading →

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Map of my Life

Posted on January 1, 2011 by jenny

(Written in July 2009) The session with Caryn really helped a lot. We made a map of my life in which sadness had a part but was not the whole thing. It clarified and filled out the sense I had … Continue reading →

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The Hardest Work There Is

Posted on December 31, 2010 by jenny

(Written in June 2009) I read the passage to Karen about how I hadn’t done as much with my life as I might have. She said the obvious things: that there’s no way I can know that, that it’s a … Continue reading →

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God Image

Posted on December 27, 2010 by jenny

When I was a child I believed in God pretty much pictured as an old white man, sitting in a throne “up there” in heaven. This god was judgmental and punitive, and sometimes I was afraid he was overhearing and … Continue reading →

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