Still floating in the haze of the passing New Year, I find myself reflecting further upon life, gratitude and noticing things around me that I might not be so tuned into during …
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Goodness, this is such a nice thing to hear. Thank you!
This is a great article and makes me think of the things and lessons I’ve learned from therapy clients. That people can be incredibly brave and incredibly resilient is so true. I am often left dumbfounded after a session in admiration for the person who just revealed to me the pain and anguish they endured in light of the accomplishments they have produced. Often times, after a session I’m forced to ask myself the BIG question that all therapists must ask themselves from time to time: Who’s therapy is this?
Amen! So well said. Thank you for this post.
I enjoyed reading what you wrote because I have often felt the same. I am often struck by the courage and resiliency of some of my clients. I have said to myself that some of what they have accomplished are truly miracles.
I hope they can see the respect, caring and joining from my face. I work hard not to gratify which can be empty but validate all that they have accomplished.
You are truly caring and its not just a “JOB” for you!Thank you for all your advice and time!
Fond Thoughts!
Thank you for those wonderful thoughts. I have often thought that I must be one of the poster-children for resilience. Without my faith, wicked wit, sense of humor, I might be drooling in a corner somewhere.
A childhood with no father around, extreme poverty (no phone, car, refrigerator), snow which came in through a crack in the wall, molested by a drunken neighbor while asleep…mother had left me alone at night in a 120-year old tenement house..cockroaches and rats (they didn’t visit us too often…fear of my mother)….physically and verbally violent mother. Joined the army right out of high school and then “married’ the original abuser and tried to fix the past…..for 31 years….verbal abuse….which is now one of my passions to get the message out there…..I’ve written a 25-page paper entitled: Society’s Hidden “Pandemic”–Verbal Abuse, Precursor to Physical Violence and a Form of Biochemical Assault.
I won a scholarship at age 61 (not academic) because of what I wrote about my life. Once I got a divorce, i had to fight spiritual abuse. My church voted me out of membership, with my name up on a big screen, folowed by the words: “Conduct Unbecoming a Child of God.”
As always,I made something positive come from the “ashes” of my life: http://www.churchabusepoetrytherapy.com (over 17,421 hits).
My poetry: Sanctuary of the Soul (poems of anguish, healing, hope, comfort and celebration) was just published. My memoir: Ghost Child to Triumph (from a child with no voice, to someone who speaks up against injustice) will also eventually be published.
My endorsements take my breath away: Elie Weisel, Dr. Larry Dossey, Dr. Frank Ochberg, Alice Miller, Nikki Giovanni, Wayne Dyer, Dr. Ellen Langer, Clint van Zandt (14 in all)
I have been on the radio twice, and have been working like a Trojan for over 10 years to get the message out there regarding verbal abuse; The global statistics are staggering: 1 in 3 women abused and every 9 seconds a woman is assaulted.
I believe we are all here and I will never stop speaking up.
Thank you for caring…
Sincerely, Alice (over comer and wounded healer)
and……Veteran of the Women’s Army Corps 1964-1967