Posted by susan47 on August 17, 2008, at 20:01:33
In reply to Re: Incorrect book link above » susan47, posted by Partlycloudy on August 13, 2008, at 9:21:08
> Hi there, Susan. First, here's a link to one of Byron Katie's books: "Loving What Is", which my therapist and I have been working with for over a year now after I had read and absorbed it. Her website has quite a few YouTube videos of "The Work", as it's called, put into practice.
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I'm glad you changed back to PC, if that is what you're feeling. I'm glad you can express that feeling, and maybe that's why you come back here, why you came back this time, and Don't Feel Bad about doing that, Crumbling. I have a family portrait taken in the days when I was "crumbing within" and you can't tell by the picture that what was going to happen actually did happen. How bad it got, you'd never know how bad things got, how bad it can still get, sometimes ... from the pictures. Even these pictures taken this day don't show the agony of a mind turned on itself ... but I went to the link you posted and I will have to read this work too.
I've been involved in something called Journeywork, bringing me to things so I can forgive the past and be healed in the present ... I want that so much, I'm sick of feeling bad. But Arundhati Roy was definitely a writer who is helping to bring me back, that and other books I am finally picking up, "The Perfect Circle", in the English translation, has some errors but is still worthwhile reading, exactly in this vein, the vein of loving "What Is" ... written from a traveller's perspective .. and I feel like a traveller lately. I have certainly done a fair amount of travelling this last little while ... and a wonderful thing, too. I'm home today but within a couple of days I can see myself disappearing again, this time walk-in camping alone, where the bears are ... I need to Live.
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....> But everything, lately, feels like a defeat to me. Changing my name back to a less sunny weather report. Returning to Babble when I had decided it was time for me to leave. Going away for a few days with a friend, which should have felt like the good thing for myself that it was, felt instead like I was trying to run away from home and my inconsequential problems.
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> So that's me right now.
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Do whatever it takes to find out what makes you happy and start with telling yourself You Deserve to Feel Good. You do, too. You deserve to feel happy, you deserve to feel good, and you do whatever it takes.
And thank you for caring about people on Babble. I'm one of the people on Babble and if it weren't for my Babble friends over the last few years when I was hurting and suicidal, I wouldn't be here, I'd be rotten in the ground, or ashes somewhere, I wouldn't be here loving my kids.
Thanks, PC, thanks for being here.
Susan
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