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Old Feb 05, 2013, 01:17 PM
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Originally Posted by sittingatwatersedge View Post
Phase II was when I started trying to imagine what it must be like to sit there and listen - attentively - to stories of abuse, abandonment, neglect, and worse, every day, every week. No wonder they burn out.

Phase III was when I finally realized that the story I was telling was MY story. Not just a story, told with no feelings (I had buried my feelings long years before). This was my story.
That is where I'm at right now! (((SAWE))) processing the emotions with the events that took place.
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