relational healing
Who doesn’t want to share time with people who help us become who we aspire to be?
Charles Vogl • The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging
Our individuality is entwined with our connectedness; so the work of healing and growth happens both alone and in relation to others.
Mia Birdsong • How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
After all, what is a person other than a whole history of associations, loves, memories, attachments, and affinities? Who are we, other than all the others who have made us who we are, and to whom we belong as much as they to us? We are those others.
David Bentley Hart • That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation
David Brooks • The Relationalist Manifesto
We can’t address the decline in empathy without addressing the decline in attention. Empathy requires a degree of sustained focus:
Paying attention to an experience someone is sharing
Recalling experiencing a similar emotional response
Sitting with your own and... See more
Dr. Samaiya Mushtaqsubstack.comAt the end of his life, the great picture book author and illustrator Maurice Sendak said on the NPR show Fresh Air, "I cry a lot because I miss people. I cry a lot because they die, and I can't stop them. They leave me, and I love them more."
He said, "I'm finding out as I'm aging that I'm in love with the
world."
It has taken me all my life up to
... See moreThere is no healing path without self compassion. There's no movement towards befriending our life without self compassion.
Otter Voice Meeting Notes
Francis Weller
Study after study shows that the most important factor in the success of your treatment is your relationship with the therapist, your experience of “feeling felt.” This matters more than the therapist’s training, the kind of therapy they do, or what type of problem you have.