Julie quoted
“But a really lucky person (as the poet Rumi puts it) "slips into a house to escape enemies, and opens the door to the other world."”
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i now believe that i failed my first daughter in the only parenting decision i made in regards to her... i failed... I am working on unscrunching... I am working on "Oh, well"
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I have not read the rest of this thread yet.. and was not on yesterday.. but Julie when I read your post I thought of this..(I have not finished my dishes and have not made lunch yet.) (hmmmm failure?)
Sooooo.... from The Vein of Gold.. Julia Cameron
From The Kingdom of Story..
Page 46
It is my belief that the stories we choose to tell and cherish about ourselves are the true stories, and the road map to the real lantern-hearted self. Until we do the work of excavating, claiming, and owing our own life stories, we run the very real risk of seeing ourselves, describing ourselves, and proscribing ourselves as others see fit. We go along with their plot lines for what is our life story. This is both dangerous and damaging. How often have you known someone to accept limitations that to your eyes are illusory? How cheered are you when someone………..has the charity and courage to become larger than their circumstances would suggest?
We must learn to deconstruct the negative story lines that hamper our growth.
And what Cameron has a person do in this book is look for the ‘pings’ when we write our lives down.. the places where the black holes lie..
She calls them ‘cups’ and or gold.. she says to mine them..
We find a place like when I gave birth to bson and felt total shame.. and write about it.. We write down how we felt at that moment.. how horrible it all was.. and then we look at it from our
now eyes.. and really see what happened.. see where the negativity came from/comes from..
See where the shame spiral starts..
That unconscious shame spiral.. Not known about.. shame spiral.
Sort it with your adult eyes.. and then it seems to become ‘laid to rest’..
Jackie