How wonderful to utilize a HUG as a symbol of extension! ...remembering how I encouraged the young (ages 15 through 35) mentally ill to become comfortable with touching. [movement, dance, and drama therapy] Powerful. Also remember asking clients [regular therapy] if they felt comfortable with a hug at the end of a session. So many are longing for love and affection (then and now). Thank you...so much the reflect upon.
Thank you for reading, Valerie. And thank you for sharing your own experience of the way hugs - as movement, as connection, as extensions of talk therapy even - become part of our shared and cooperative healing process. You remind me - and I hope others reading this - of the Course's insistence that bodies are for communication, and that communication can be so much more than words (written or spoken). I forget this all the time and remembering has been such a big part of my own learning and healing, letting the body be a body even as I also learn that I am NOT a body. Thank you again🙏
How wonderful to utilize a HUG as a symbol of extension! ...remembering how I encouraged the young (ages 15 through 35) mentally ill to become comfortable with touching. [movement, dance, and drama therapy] Powerful. Also remember asking clients [regular therapy] if they felt comfortable with a hug at the end of a session. So many are longing for love and affection (then and now). Thank you...so much the reflect upon.
Thank you for reading, Valerie. And thank you for sharing your own experience of the way hugs - as movement, as connection, as extensions of talk therapy even - become part of our shared and cooperative healing process. You remind me - and I hope others reading this - of the Course's insistence that bodies are for communication, and that communication can be so much more than words (written or spoken). I forget this all the time and remembering has been such a big part of my own learning and healing, letting the body be a body even as I also learn that I am NOT a body. Thank you again🙏
Love,
Sean
This is a welcome post to read—a hug in itself! Thank you, Sean. Here's a pertinent poem by Tess Gallagher. Maybe you know it. https://www.wuu.org/sermons/reading083108tgallagher.pdf
What a lovely poem . . . Thank you Susanna 🙏🙏
Lovely. Thank you Sean. I'm sending a remote hug to you and all the readers. Bless you all.
Jayney
Thank you Jayney 🙏🙏
Thank u for this Sean! U explained things so simply & clearly that even I could understand…….much appreciated!
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Thank you again Sean. As usual you articulate this perfectly
Thanks, Sean. It takes perfection to recognize perfection :)
Hope you're well!!
~ Sean
Thank you for this beautiful message, so clear and easy to understand.
You're welcome, Ginny! Thank you for being here 🙏🙏
Love,
Sean