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Detachment from 36 year-old difficult child
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<blockquote data-quote="Scent of Cedar *" data-source="post: 621925" data-attributes="member: 17461"><p>Thank you, Mechdonna. Your words were a sweetly unexpected blessing.</p><p></p><p>:O) </p><p></p><p>We are healing now, and difficult child is recovering well. </p><p></p><p>It is hard to know how to function beautifully, how to live and cherish our lives and our blue skies and dinner time when we so worry about our difficult children. When we haven't heard from them, when we know our difficult child kids (who never did seem to think like everyone else) are probably doing something foolish or downright dangerous...again.</p><p></p><p>We all, every one of us here, have to be so courageous in the face of that. But, somewhere in the troubled days and nights, we realize a responsibility to our own lives, to our right and really, our obligation, to our own happiness. We realize we can choose strength; that we can choose to respond from a position of respect for ourselves, of caring and compassion for what we are living through. Briefly, we can even learn to admire ourselves for surviving something no one who hasn't lived through it, year after year, could ever understand.</p><p></p><p>Child of Mine posted once about seeing ourselves in the position of balance between the cloud we see visibly, and the silver lining it surely contains, though we do not see it.</p><p></p><p>That is the balance that feels right, to me. That is the imagery I remember, when I am knocked off balance.</p><p> </p><p>I always see the sun too, piercing through the clouds and making them white.</p><p></p><p>That imagery helps me know how to feel my way through the shaky times. Maybe that will help you, too?</p><p></p><p>Cedar</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scent of Cedar *, post: 621925, member: 17461"] Thank you, Mechdonna. Your words were a sweetly unexpected blessing. :O) We are healing now, and difficult child is recovering well. It is hard to know how to function beautifully, how to live and cherish our lives and our blue skies and dinner time when we so worry about our difficult children. When we haven't heard from them, when we know our difficult child kids (who never did seem to think like everyone else) are probably doing something foolish or downright dangerous...again. We all, every one of us here, have to be so courageous in the face of that. But, somewhere in the troubled days and nights, we realize a responsibility to our own lives, to our right and really, our obligation, to our own happiness. We realize we can choose strength; that we can choose to respond from a position of respect for ourselves, of caring and compassion for what we are living through. Briefly, we can even learn to admire ourselves for surviving something no one who hasn't lived through it, year after year, could ever understand. Child of Mine posted once about seeing ourselves in the position of balance between the cloud we see visibly, and the silver lining it surely contains, though we do not see it. That is the balance that feels right, to me. That is the imagery I remember, when I am knocked off balance. I always see the sun too, piercing through the clouds and making them white. That imagery helps me know how to feel my way through the shaky times. Maybe that will help you, too? Cedar [/QUOTE]
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