MY WEEKEND IN THE WOODS BY A STREAM
Never have I been so emersed in an environment solely focused on recovery from incest issues.
Gentleness prevailed couching a forum of healing anger and rage. It was healing.
Only survivors were present except for service personel who were rarely visible.
The recovery forum stage was set for openness and safety beginning the first night. Infractions did occur but were dealt with extremely well with gentleness and healing attitudes that I have rarely seen. My roommate was my hero here.
The gut wrenching soul work was explored on Saturday with a triumphant evening of joy to top the day. I drummed, danced and sang until I could no more. This Lion slept well that night.
sunday closed the retreat with tears over separarion from newfound soulmates.
I have worked in a few mental health environments,none this good. One I worked in came close but outside elements managed to effect the safety of containment there.
This retreat was an excellent place to feel not alone with these issues of trauma. I did not have the only mother perpetrator in the whole wide world.
I had some new wounds from the last two years healed. These wounds rekindled my deeply felt self-doubts. I left those self doubts at a retreat in a wooded area by a river in Illinois.
Total healing does not occur in a weekend, but this retreat offered some good insights that will have healing ripple effects in my life.
There is one other place that I have experienced the healing effects of brotherhood, and that is with a group called New Warriors or The Mankind Project. Though they do not focus on SA issues they do focus on recovery from childhood trauma in a general sense. It is where I learned to experience what it would have been like to have had a loving father.
As of this past weekend I now have some new brothers.
--- be gentle with yourselves.
Gentleness prevailed couching a forum of healing anger and rage. It was healing.
Only survivors were present except for service personel who were rarely visible.
The recovery forum stage was set for openness and safety beginning the first night. Infractions did occur but were dealt with extremely well with gentleness and healing attitudes that I have rarely seen. My roommate was my hero here.
The gut wrenching soul work was explored on Saturday with a triumphant evening of joy to top the day. I drummed, danced and sang until I could no more. This Lion slept well that night.
sunday closed the retreat with tears over separarion from newfound soulmates.
I have worked in a few mental health environments,none this good. One I worked in came close but outside elements managed to effect the safety of containment there.
This retreat was an excellent place to feel not alone with these issues of trauma. I did not have the only mother perpetrator in the whole wide world.
I had some new wounds from the last two years healed. These wounds rekindled my deeply felt self-doubts. I left those self doubts at a retreat in a wooded area by a river in Illinois.
Total healing does not occur in a weekend, but this retreat offered some good insights that will have healing ripple effects in my life.
There is one other place that I have experienced the healing effects of brotherhood, and that is with a group called New Warriors or The Mankind Project. Though they do not focus on SA issues they do focus on recovery from childhood trauma in a general sense. It is where I learned to experience what it would have been like to have had a loving father.
As of this past weekend I now have some new brothers.
--- be gentle with yourselves.