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<blockquote data-quote="recoveringenabler" data-source="post: 610476" data-attributes="member: 13542"><p>Just wanted to respond to your post which I glossed over after I read the story you wrote..........</p><p></p><p>I loved the Frankenstein movies when I was a kid. I always felt so sorry for him, caught in a place he had no part in and punished simply for being himself. I could relate.</p><p></p><p>All of your quotes are just beautiful, thanks for sharing them. All poignant and relative to our journeys.</p><p></p><p>From my vantage point now, I do believe, for me, I had to go back and heal the past. I'm not sure that is valuable for everyone, we all have to make that choice. There was too much pain in my heart and body and I needed to find ways to expel it, express it, feel it, heal it. How I feel today is totally different from the way I felt as a much younger person. Fear, shame, grief, anger and resentment all seem to take up residence in us and stay there until a time where we choose to change that. I've sat in many a group with people who claim they don't feel it necessary to go through all that pain.............and maybe that's true, however, from where I sat observing them, they seemed wooden, disconnected..........angry........ that thaw you speak of didn't happen. </p><p></p><p>I think Brene Brown said that when we don't allow ourselves to feel the pain, the joy and the more vulnerable feelings are also muted or in fact, non existent. I've had to distance myself from people who have claimed they are "healed" and okay, only to find that some part of them, undiscovered and unacknowledged is running the show...........and that part, out of their awareness, can do inappropriate, hurtful or shaming things. And, if it is out of their awareness, they cannot acknowledge it so the behavior continues. </p><p></p><p>Gloria Steinem has a great quote in one of her books, something like, "the world is run by people acting out their inner dramas on the world stage" </p><p></p><p>I believe the story you wrote to be the truth.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="recoveringenabler, post: 610476, member: 13542"] Just wanted to respond to your post which I glossed over after I read the story you wrote.......... I loved the Frankenstein movies when I was a kid. I always felt so sorry for him, caught in a place he had no part in and punished simply for being himself. I could relate. All of your quotes are just beautiful, thanks for sharing them. All poignant and relative to our journeys. From my vantage point now, I do believe, for me, I had to go back and heal the past. I'm not sure that is valuable for everyone, we all have to make that choice. There was too much pain in my heart and body and I needed to find ways to expel it, express it, feel it, heal it. How I feel today is totally different from the way I felt as a much younger person. Fear, shame, grief, anger and resentment all seem to take up residence in us and stay there until a time where we choose to change that. I've sat in many a group with people who claim they don't feel it necessary to go through all that pain.............and maybe that's true, however, from where I sat observing them, they seemed wooden, disconnected..........angry........ that thaw you speak of didn't happen. I think Brene Brown said that when we don't allow ourselves to feel the pain, the joy and the more vulnerable feelings are also muted or in fact, non existent. I've had to distance myself from people who have claimed they are "healed" and okay, only to find that some part of them, undiscovered and unacknowledged is running the show...........and that part, out of their awareness, can do inappropriate, hurtful or shaming things. And, if it is out of their awareness, they cannot acknowledge it so the behavior continues. Gloria Steinem has a great quote in one of her books, something like, "the world is run by people acting out their inner dramas on the world stage" I believe the story you wrote to be the truth. [/QUOTE]
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