Well that was a beautiful personal essay. More please! A memoir in the making. I loved this: "Clothes were financed on credit at The Limited Too." Lay-away we called in in Baltimore. Can you believe they did that? You could go in and pay off a little bit every week, and they would hold it for you in the back of the store. The opposite of instant gratification. Thank you for this reflection.
I mean, I don't get it either. BUT also, I don't know how I got so lucky you show up for me susan. We should both write memoirs for fun! I mean, life is so werid right?
You are so sweet to ask. I'm not sure. It's just about me keeping my butt in the chair, writing. I'm in several writing groups which is great so I can have them review drafts of essays. I'll work on sturcture when I have about half of it done. Writing groups are great!
Oh - how about this - maybe we can have a conversation on your platform about writing, the importance if it, how to start, etc...we could flesh that out!
W.T.F. is a great way to vent! Also invasive. Self reflection I understand fully. But every piece of published writing is an opinion expressed for others to take from. Isn't that so?
Tell me more! I think that it is true - but I am more open to it when it is not framed as advice. Personally. I think the whole thing is really complicated and I am not sure I understand why my body does the things it does. but I would love to hear more!
Carissa, you are a sensitive human being and wield an expressive quil. Your 'share and let share' is a powerful offering for all to savour and participate in. That is what brought me within your folds. And your almost vulnerable honesty will keep me walking by your side
What we also, and I to begin with definitely, need to be aware of, is that expression can also be construed as a weapon that can unknowingly/inadvertently injure/do self harm. Bringing forth, almost as a subterfuge, an unbridled ego at play.
Self reflection, while being aware of its expressive impact, works at a deep spiritual level for me.
Democratically speaking, other processes work for others.
No judgement here. An open share only :-)
Thank you for providing your empathetic platform...grateful, always.
What we also, and I to begin with definitely, need to be aware of, is that expression can also be construed as a weapon that can unknowingly/inadvertently injure/do self harm. Bringing forth, almost as a subterfuge, an unbridled ego at play. -I think about this often, not so much in the context of possible self-harm, tho I understand that as a real possibility, but more so harm to the people I love. For me, when I write, or vent, I think that all angles have some sort of validity. Some sort of truth, even if on the sidelines. I will really sit with the idea that self-reflection and the impacts of its expression is spiritual. ONE LAST question - your wirting is so thoughtful - I was wondering how you are defining spiritual in this context? Also, so grateful you are here.
Very fair. I am curious: What is your enneagram number? Do you consider yourself an easygoing person? I mean, I wish I was easygoing; I am just not. But trying to learn. Why do you think people can react so differently to information in different contexts? Humans are so cool/weird/hard to understand.
I am not easygoing. Or at least I wasn’t. I am extremely intense at times. It was a decision not to be.
When the internet decided that the sky was falling, I just decided that for my own mental health, I was no longer going to react to things emotionally.
Same. I immediately reject anything told to me when it gut-level isn't right. That's why those throw pillows and house signs telling me how to feel have always enraged me. Then again, my family-of-origin home had a welcome mat that said: Go Away.
it's so weird! In some ways, as a person who makes those things - the house things like prints that say "things will work out" etc- I feel like I should not like them either. I think I am selective about it. I made a door mat that said, "We have so much in common" after we were robbed. I love how you use the family-of-origin as a phrase. I am going to use it moving forward, if you don't mind?
Well that was a beautiful personal essay. More please! A memoir in the making. I loved this: "Clothes were financed on credit at The Limited Too." Lay-away we called in in Baltimore. Can you believe they did that? You could go in and pay off a little bit every week, and they would hold it for you in the back of the store. The opposite of instant gratification. Thank you for this reflection.
I mean, I don't get it either. BUT also, I don't know how I got so lucky you show up for me susan. We should both write memoirs for fun! I mean, life is so werid right?
I’m working on mine. I promised myself I would finish it this year!!
OHHH LA LA - how can I cheer you on?
You are so sweet to ask. I'm not sure. It's just about me keeping my butt in the chair, writing. I'm in several writing groups which is great so I can have them review drafts of essays. I'll work on sturcture when I have about half of it done. Writing groups are great!
Oh - how about this - maybe we can have a conversation on your platform about writing, the importance if it, how to start, etc...we could flesh that out!
If someone hadn’t pointed out to me how I “should feel,” the seed would never have been planted in my heart, and I would still be a miserable fuck.
I can’t see how that bit of information ever invalidated how I was feeling. When it was pointed out, I couldn’t even be mad.
It changed my life.
People don’t like a lot of things that are good for them.
W.T.F. is a great way to vent! Also invasive. Self reflection I understand fully. But every piece of published writing is an opinion expressed for others to take from. Isn't that so?
Tell me more! I think that it is true - but I am more open to it when it is not framed as advice. Personally. I think the whole thing is really complicated and I am not sure I understand why my body does the things it does. but I would love to hear more!
Carissa, you are a sensitive human being and wield an expressive quil. Your 'share and let share' is a powerful offering for all to savour and participate in. That is what brought me within your folds. And your almost vulnerable honesty will keep me walking by your side
What we also, and I to begin with definitely, need to be aware of, is that expression can also be construed as a weapon that can unknowingly/inadvertently injure/do self harm. Bringing forth, almost as a subterfuge, an unbridled ego at play.
Self reflection, while being aware of its expressive impact, works at a deep spiritual level for me.
Democratically speaking, other processes work for others.
No judgement here. An open share only :-)
Thank you for providing your empathetic platform...grateful, always.
What we also, and I to begin with definitely, need to be aware of, is that expression can also be construed as a weapon that can unknowingly/inadvertently injure/do self harm. Bringing forth, almost as a subterfuge, an unbridled ego at play. -I think about this often, not so much in the context of possible self-harm, tho I understand that as a real possibility, but more so harm to the people I love. For me, when I write, or vent, I think that all angles have some sort of validity. Some sort of truth, even if on the sidelines. I will really sit with the idea that self-reflection and the impacts of its expression is spiritual. ONE LAST question - your wirting is so thoughtful - I was wondering how you are defining spiritual in this context? Also, so grateful you are here.
Very fair. I am curious: What is your enneagram number? Do you consider yourself an easygoing person? I mean, I wish I was easygoing; I am just not. But trying to learn. Why do you think people can react so differently to information in different contexts? Humans are so cool/weird/hard to understand.
I am not easygoing. Or at least I wasn’t. I am extremely intense at times. It was a decision not to be.
When the internet decided that the sky was falling, I just decided that for my own mental health, I was no longer going to react to things emotionally.
Best decision I made was to change my vibration.
Shoot, I was a U.S. Marine. “Easygoing” is not really in the vocabulary. I am simply trying to be a good human now in the second half of life.
I really think we all are trying to be good humans. It is so complicated - Is changing your vibration the same as learning how to self regulate?
While we are all likely trying to be good humans, most people do not know what that means.
No, changing my vibration is “changing my vibration.” “Self-regulation” may be a byproduct of that change, though.
If you want to see how I am doing it, I post a daily affirmation. Look at what I am expressing and see what you can fit into your daily routine!
<3 oh thank you
Love to you too! Thanks for sending. I hope you can feel it coming back to you.
I love you. <3
I am always thinking of you. I tell people about you all the time.
Same. I immediately reject anything told to me when it gut-level isn't right. That's why those throw pillows and house signs telling me how to feel have always enraged me. Then again, my family-of-origin home had a welcome mat that said: Go Away.
it's so weird! In some ways, as a person who makes those things - the house things like prints that say "things will work out" etc- I feel like I should not like them either. I think I am selective about it. I made a door mat that said, "We have so much in common" after we were robbed. I love how you use the family-of-origin as a phrase. I am going to use it moving forward, if you don't mind?