Dear Anonymous:

Congratulations for earning your yoga teacher training certificate, how exciting!!!

Regarding the “lot of internal work” we do to heal from significant early life significant emotional injuries, there is always more work to do. I used to think there is a heavenly destiny to the work, but found out.. no heaven.

I will need to re-read your recent post after I rest (I had a slip and fall accident yesterday, fell on ice flat on my back, bruised chest muscles), plus other troubles due to below freezing temperature and snow, so I will have to come back to your thread later, maybe in as long as 16 hours from now.

“my dad was an alcoholic with a loud/ intimidating voice/ anger issues. My mom was emotionally closed off”. If you want to elaborate on your experience with your father’s anger, and your experience with your mother emotional unavailability (as a child and later), please do.  I point to these two sentences at this point, because almost always, our core beliefs are formed in our first decade of life, not later.

anita