In my healing and understanding of my life (the glorious and the cruel), I've incorporated and taken to myself, some very specific and individualized beliefs. You see, my illness and hardships came from very specific and individualized abuses and factors, so the healing had to be the same.

I would not presume to say that what worked for me would work for you. I wouldn't say, "This is the only way to heal." What worked for me might not even have a small affect on your experience in healing. Then again, our experiences might be so like that alot of what helped me might be helpful to you.

That said, there are common threads in healing as we all experience it in its various forms and at different degrees...even if the only common ground we can stand on would be the desire to heal.

Much like my healing journey, every day in this life, my inner essence is on a spiritual journey. I look at what occurs in my life and how I'm to apply that to my spiritual journey...how do I interpret happenings for me in a way as to gain a spiritual understanding for self and a personalized spiritual experience. After all, the spiritual experience is VERY individualized and personal in interpretation!

I guess all of us who post here (due to the name of this forum) are on some kind of spiritual journey in their lives. Some are at the very beginning of their road, some midway, some well-established in their paths, and some are literally peering at the road...maybe viewing it for the first time.

I find my journey amazing, wonderful, difficult, tumultuous, incredible. I find my the sights along my road to be many different things...viewed by me as it's *my* road. You can't walk it for me, nor can I walk your's for you, as they're individual and we can't live each other's lives nor travel each other's roads. We can travel similar roads, and sometimes even parallel roads. We can also travel roads that are so far apart they actually feel they're being traveled on opposite sides of the globe!

I VOW:

To travel my road while knowing each of you have just as an amazing road to travel.

To not criticize your experience in traveling simply because it's different from mine; if I don't have anything supportive to say, I won't say anything at all because I respect your right to travel your road in your way.

To respect your right to travel the road of your choice, even though it appears much different in comparison to mine.

To respect your view and sights along your road because it's the one you're traveling and I respect you...even though my traveled-road is much different from yours.

To accept you for who you are even though you've chosen a different road to travel than I have.

To acknowledge that you may not even share the same destination that I have and that might be the very reason we've chosen different roads to travel.

To support you in your travels even though I can't imagine walking in your shoes for a second.

I vow the above while hoping the same in return because I'm treating others as I would like to be treated in return...because I care about *you the person* as we both trod along.

KD