Dear joanna:

There is a movie I watched when it came out many years ago, 1984 I think it was. That was before you were born. At the time I lived in the country where I was born and I really wanted to get away from my mother. It was that movie that gave me the courage to leave the country and travel by myself, with limited money and no arrangements to live in any other country.

I made it in 1985, at 24 I left and traveled by myself through two continents and was on my way to healing, only I went back to my mother again and again, traveled back thousands of miles to see her, to be with her, again and again, and then she traveled to the new country where I lived. Any healing I have done, any new and all  new beginnings were undone because I still had her in my life.

But the movie was the big push in the right direction. Maybe, just maybe it will encourage you too, maybe you will feel the courage that I did. The movie is The Never Ending Story (the original). If you watch it, pay attention to the symbols in it, the symbols of what I call the healing path, or the healing journey.

anita