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VALERIE MELUSKEY's avatar

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.

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Sean Reagan's avatar

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

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Susan F. Glassmeyer's avatar

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

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Sean Reagan's avatar

What a lovely poem . . . Thank you Susanna 🙏🙏

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Jayney's avatar

Lovely. Thank you Sean. I'm sending a remote hug to you and all the readers. Bless you all.

Jayney

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Sean Reagan's avatar

Thank you Jayney 🙏🙏

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Debby's avatar

Thank u for this Sean! U explained things so simply & clearly that even I could understand…….much appreciated!

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Sean Reagan's avatar

🙏🙏

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Sean Mc Geary's avatar

Thank you again Sean. As usual you articulate this perfectly

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Sean Reagan's avatar

Thanks, Sean. It takes perfection to recognize perfection :)

Hope you're well!!

~ Sean

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Ginny's avatar

Thank you for this beautiful message, so clear and easy to understand.

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Sean Reagan's avatar

You're welcome, Ginny! Thank you for being here 🙏🙏

Love,

Sean

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