Re: thoughts on self-trust, healing, fleas etc.

[Guest guest]

Your paper isn't on Carl , by any chance? Because you are

practically quoting him here :-)

Hugs,

> I'm working on a grad school psych paper and the brain just kicked

> in, so please forgive me if I'm posting too much stuff. Anyways, I

> was driving and listening to Beck on radio, lyrics I'd always heard

> before as " I'm a loser, baby, so why don't ya kill me " and suddenly

> it sounded like " I'm a loser, baby, so why don't ya CURE me " and I

> started thinking about todays posts about loser-ness, and about the

> flea of black and white thinking. I mean, say we are broken, and we

> have that flea- a common occurence is to worship figures of

> authority, books and doctors/others can fix my broken-ness. But if

we

> read posts we, ok I, notice the people who are healing and feeling

> better are using the group and therapists and books as tools, not

as

> authorities over their path towards healing. Seems to me the

> essential element required to truly begin healing/fixing broken-

ness

> is a trust in SELF. We are the authority of our own experience,

yes?

> We are taught as KO's NOT to trust or even allow our own

experiences

> thoughts and feelings to surface and if they do they are wrong, is

> that not so? Then how do we learn to trust ourselves?

> Well, I mean, I have a few thoughts on that also. sheepish

grins.

> Has mainly to do once more with learning to parent inner child in a

> healthy way, rewriting old scripts, however you view that stuff.

Love

> to all!- Jana

[Guest guest]

My first step was to buy myself a teddy bear - just like the one my nada

destroyed when I was a tiny munchkin.

- Edith

hellokitty435 wrote:

> I'm working on a grad school psych paper and the brain just kicked

> in, so please forgive me if I'm posting too much stuff. Anyways, I

> was driving and listening to Beck on radio, lyrics I'd always heard

> before as " I'm a loser, baby, so why don't ya kill me " and suddenly

> it sounded like " I'm a loser, baby, so why don't ya CURE me " and I

> started thinking about todays posts about loser-ness, and about the

> flea of black and white thinking. I mean, say we are broken, and we

> have that flea- a common occurence is to worship figures of

> authority, books and doctors/others can fix my broken-ness. But if we

> read posts we, ok I, notice the people who are healing and feeling

> better are using the group and therapists and books as tools, not as

> authorities over their path towards healing. Seems to me the

> essential element required to truly begin healing/fixing broken-ness

> is a trust in SELF. We are the authority of our own experience, yes?

> We are taught as KO's NOT to trust or even allow our own experiences

> thoughts and feelings to surface and if they do they are wrong, is

> that not so? Then how do we learn to trust ourselves?

> Well, I mean, I have a few thoughts on that also. sheepish grins.

> Has mainly to do once more with learning to parent inner child in a

> healthy way, rewriting old scripts, however you view that stuff. Love

> to all!- Jana

[Guest guest]

Nope, although I like . Its actually called " Archetypes and Healing: A New

Global Language " and I'm planning to possibly use UBM in my research proposal.

It just seems that her use of archetypes has been so very powerful for us KO's.

Love, Jana

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[Guest guest]

You know I saw a really cool article the other day, had a recipe to make an

inner child dolly. I could look for the link if anybody wants it.- jana

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[Guest guest]

Archetypes, eh? As it happens, I'm writing a paper right now on

similarities between and Jung...

Hugs,

> Nope, although I like . Its actually called " Archetypes and

Healing: A New Global Language " and I'm planning to possibly use UBM

in my research proposal. It just seems that her use of archetypes has

been so very powerful for us KO's. Love, Jana