A well received article as I find myself wrestling with my narratives, again. Thank you for your perspective as well as some nice correlations between modes and methods.
This article and the meditations are very helpful. My issue (well, one of them) is feeling undeserving of love and care. While being able to rationally understand that an embryo, baby, child is not inherently undeserving of love is easy, emotionally understanding this is impossible. Being able to flip the narrative and say that the actions of others were not a result of my shortcomings but theirs has to be a step in the right direction, right? With this, I can then say I did not create the story, I merely live/lived through it and it hurts. This, I no longer have to take responsibility for the story, I get the opportunity to be there for the hurting child and allow her to feel and grieve the same way I would for my own beautiful daughter. Thank you.
A well received article as I find myself wrestling with my narratives, again. Thank you for your perspective as well as some nice correlations between modes and methods.
Fight to win (not to not lose...)
This article and the meditations are very helpful. My issue (well, one of them) is feeling undeserving of love and care. While being able to rationally understand that an embryo, baby, child is not inherently undeserving of love is easy, emotionally understanding this is impossible. Being able to flip the narrative and say that the actions of others were not a result of my shortcomings but theirs has to be a step in the right direction, right? With this, I can then say I did not create the story, I merely live/lived through it and it hurts. This, I no longer have to take responsibility for the story, I get the opportunity to be there for the hurting child and allow her to feel and grieve the same way I would for my own beautiful daughter. Thank you.