Dear Shipp:

Monday morning for me, sitting in the Sun Room looking at the naked post Fall trees outside, the fog in between, the silver lining of sun underneath a cloud.

I can very much relate to the following things you wrote in your last post:
* “For so many years I’ve been trying”- me too, since I was a teenager, I think, with the first self help book I had my hands on, which was about Living-in-the-Now. Felt like magic and it didn’t last. All my efforts to heal failed, and there were many, until I attended my first competent therapy in 2011 and kept … walking the path ever since, more than five years at this point.

* “People in my life criticized me so much for my efforts. They never understood.” Same here. I was told: “Get over the past” “Why are you focusing on the negatives” “It is all your perception” “Move on” etc.

* “As I open myself, in order to respond to them, I pass through that barrier. As I pass through that barrier, I have to face myself and this helps a small wound heal… I’ve learned from what others post and by responding to them” This is my experience as I respond to others, including this very moment.

And you wrote: “For you to consider me a fellow path walker touched me. Thank you!…This is such a time of discovery and evolution for me… finding a kindred spirit and fellow path walker.” I am touched too- thank you for being my fellow path walker and kindred spirit! It means a lot to me.

anita