colbyness Posted November 25, 2015 Posted November 25, 2015 Greetings to all- i want to share that I've started therapy. I'm happy to say so, as it's been a long time coming to this point. Religion has had it's costs and benefits as a coping mechanism, resulting in my being alone for the most part, which is unfortunate because I much enjoy working with and meeting people. Religion helped me totally separate from my FOO, and now that I've gotten out of a fundamentalist church, off to therapy i go! I'm thinking about finding a new job because management is out of control and it would be nice to have some self-dignity. i hope you're all doing well thanks for reading. 3
RCali Posted November 25, 2015 Posted November 25, 2015 Good luck on the path of improvement. Know that you're a part of the community, and it looks after itself. 1
colbyness Posted November 27, 2015 Author Posted November 27, 2015 thanks R- i hope to embrace the experience. Both the pain of the past, and the hopeful joy of the future.
Matt D Posted November 27, 2015 Posted November 27, 2015 Much love, brother. Here's a quote I wrote in my journal this week while reading Alice Miller's 'Drama of the Gifted Child': It is not only the 'beautiful', 'good', and pleasant feelings that make us really alive, deepen our existence and give us crucial insight, but often precisely the unacceptable and unadapted ones from which we would prefer to escape: helplessness, shame, envy, jealousy, confusion, rage, and grief. These feelings can be experienced in therapy. When they are understood, they open the door to our inner world that is much richer than the 'beautiful countenance'!
colbyness Posted November 28, 2015 Author Posted November 28, 2015 Hi there Matt- thank you for that.
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