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Hunny · 03:05 AM

Thank you, yes, here's to: going >>>> toward healing!

Details are finding the path to written expression.

How I found out about it is through word of mouth. I signed up. People gathered together. Some talked about how they had been in a caring group of people for three months. There were two educational sessions (as i mentioned above) and some spiritual content in the form of music and a prayer.

I liked being with the people I sat with, going for lunch with them and for a walk at the break.

I agreed with the educational component of the presentation and the people who shared were very nice and seemed to genuinely have been helped after being in the their group for 3 months.

I also liked the music.

Hearing that 'abused people are and will be heard' was a phrase I was extremely moved by. I really had to hold my cry in. Fortunately, the session was near the end and I went to the washroom.

The teaching power point screens were great and there was a neat picture of two snails making their way to a ship (an arc).

I got a bit scared when I thought I might have to listen to a lot of abuse stories but it was more about to go get help than telling abuse stories. But it wasn't dismissive of the stories of abuse.

I think they meant it to be a safe place but the red lights bothered one of the people I was with so I worried others might feel worried too. It was a bit dark in the room too except at the end a sunbeam came through the door and landed right on our backs.

I didn't like the prayers at the end for a number of reasons. I think it would have confused me to be prayed for and so I left. I am sure people may get healed miraculously but for me it has taken many years of counselling and I think that is more realistic. Also, trust in a stranger praying for me does not appeal to me. I was happy at the end though, because for me, it was enough to hear that people who have been abused and without voice are getting their voice.

So, gratitude is finding it's way to the surface for that which was meaningful to me.. .