While I could conceptually understand why people responded to me as a girl/young woman, I couldn’t understand why that meant that people had to treat me a certain way or expected me to be, think, do or say certain things.
Read MoreOpening up and allowing yourself to be vulnerable with other people is no small feat. And this is what the work entails. It thrives in community.
Read MoreHere I was in my own spiritual twelve step program but instead of recovery it felt more like a reawakening. I started to look at all the people in my life and became radically honest with myself about my relationship with each one. When I could see the barriers that I had built more clearly, I was able to be radically honest with myself and say that I had caused harm, unintentionally yes but the impact was still harm.
Read MoreOnce I learned about the woman that my grandmother was and the difficult life she had it was no wonder to me that the illness that would eventually kill her affected the areas responsible for love and power; because she felt that she had neither of those.
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