Your work is so powerful. You inspire me to write more and deeper on the fight response and self defence and all this. Thank you for giving the world this work.
Thank you for this. Some of what you wrote about your dream and what it meant reminds me of why EMDR therapy was so powerful for me. So much of the sessions that were centered around memories of physical and sexual abuse were very graphic, violent reimaginings where I was able to defend myself and there was always some sort of fantastical way that I would then escape from the area: I would blast up in the air and fly away, I would conjure an enormous rainbow slide that took me through a window all the way to the ocean, etc. I really believe there is power in that reimagining. For me, those sessions totally rewrote the past somewhere deep in my brain, it changed everything.
The paragraph that begins ‘As I said it aloud, I knew it wasn’t true’, moves through your invocation of your holy desires, then lands with ‘I gifted him a return to innocence’ sent wave on top of wave of full body chills through my body.
This is such profound work. I feel its universal implications as I feel you personally reclaiming your dignity and power in relationship to the dignity and power of all beings. I see you braiding the physical, the historical, the spiritual, and the imaginal worlds and drinking in, generously sharing the overflow of benevolent intelligence that pours from their integration.
As I see, you are a great force, you are an angel. I am honoured and so grateful to let the fruits of your process wash over me and lend support to the battle I show up for in my own body and relations, that dance of righteous rage and everlasting protection.
“His tongue was his weapon, and I disarmed him.”
Your work is so powerful. You inspire me to write more and deeper on the fight response and self defence and all this. Thank you for giving the world this work.
Thank you for inspiring this thought process
That was a powerful, beautifully written and deeply relatable piece of writing. Thank you.
Thank you for this. Some of what you wrote about your dream and what it meant reminds me of why EMDR therapy was so powerful for me. So much of the sessions that were centered around memories of physical and sexual abuse were very graphic, violent reimaginings where I was able to defend myself and there was always some sort of fantastical way that I would then escape from the area: I would blast up in the air and fly away, I would conjure an enormous rainbow slide that took me through a window all the way to the ocean, etc. I really believe there is power in that reimagining. For me, those sessions totally rewrote the past somewhere deep in my brain, it changed everything.
The paragraph that begins ‘As I said it aloud, I knew it wasn’t true’, moves through your invocation of your holy desires, then lands with ‘I gifted him a return to innocence’ sent wave on top of wave of full body chills through my body.
This is such profound work. I feel its universal implications as I feel you personally reclaiming your dignity and power in relationship to the dignity and power of all beings. I see you braiding the physical, the historical, the spiritual, and the imaginal worlds and drinking in, generously sharing the overflow of benevolent intelligence that pours from their integration.
As I see, you are a great force, you are an angel. I am honoured and so grateful to let the fruits of your process wash over me and lend support to the battle I show up for in my own body and relations, that dance of righteous rage and everlasting protection.
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These words are beautiful. Thank you for engaging with this so deeply and for seeing into the process so clearly. This means so much to me.
What about the safety and dignity of those two babies? Just leave them to get raped? What kind of choice is this?