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<blockquote data-quote="scent of cedar" data-source="post: 599724" data-attributes="member: 1721"><p>Frankl resonated with me too, Recovering. Elie Wiesel, also. There is something in the writings of both these men that describes what it means to lose a living child, though they are writing about other things, entirely. "Sacred horror" is how Elie Wiesel describes what it was to go through what happened to him. That fits, for me. I am horrified, fascinated, aghast; can't look away, can't look straight at it. I will get the Singer book. Thank you, Recovering. I have Brene Brown coming. Her observation is that choosing vulnerability, choosing to be open to our feelings and our failures, is the way to healing.</p><p></p><p>I think it is Frankl who describes sitting in a velvet-upholstered chair in an auditorium after his release. Whatever honor he was receiving, whoever he looked like to the outside world...all Frankl was able to know is that sense of dissonance that comes when internal and external understandings of reality are so impossibly different. That sense of dissonance left him feeling like a performer, an observer in his own life.</p><p></p><p>I feel like that, sometimes.</p><p></p><p>It's always such a shock to be confronted with difficult child's real life.</p><p></p><p>I do hold her in God's light now, Recovering. It was very good for me to learn to do that.</p><p></p><p>Barbara</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="scent of cedar, post: 599724, member: 1721"] Frankl resonated with me too, Recovering. Elie Wiesel, also. There is something in the writings of both these men that describes what it means to lose a living child, though they are writing about other things, entirely. "Sacred horror" is how Elie Wiesel describes what it was to go through what happened to him. That fits, for me. I am horrified, fascinated, aghast; can't look away, can't look straight at it. I will get the Singer book. Thank you, Recovering. I have Brene Brown coming. Her observation is that choosing vulnerability, choosing to be open to our feelings and our failures, is the way to healing. I think it is Frankl who describes sitting in a velvet-upholstered chair in an auditorium after his release. Whatever honor he was receiving, whoever he looked like to the outside world...all Frankl was able to know is that sense of dissonance that comes when internal and external understandings of reality are so impossibly different. That sense of dissonance left him feeling like a performer, an observer in his own life. I feel like that, sometimes. It's always such a shock to be confronted with difficult child's real life. I do hold her in God's light now, Recovering. It was very good for me to learn to do that. Barbara [/QUOTE]
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