Comments on: Bubbling to the Surface http://thechroniclesofmunchkinland.com/2007/08/01/bubbling-to-the-surface/ Writing Our Ever-Evolving Story Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:41:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: nessa http://thechroniclesofmunchkinland.com/2007/08/01/bubbling-to-the-surface/comment-page-1/#comment-2091 nessa Fri, 03 Aug 2007 09:24:43 +0000 http://thechroniclesofmunchkinland.com/2007/08/01/bubbling-to-the-surface/#comment-2091 I agree about others advice to be gentle and go at your own pace. Maybe let the Holy Spirit lead you and show you what you need to examine, whether from your past or present. Pray for revelation that will heal. I know I feel safer when I do it that way, less likely to "drown" in sorrow or pain or fear. (Altho I feel all of those to some degree, depending on what I'm facing.) I don't know about "diving in"....I do know that sometimes when faced with a pain barrier, the only way out is through. I agree about others advice to be gentle and go at your own pace.

Maybe let the Holy Spirit lead you and show you what you need to examine, whether from your past or present. Pray for revelation that will heal. I know I feel safer when I do it that way, less likely to “drown” in sorrow or pain or fear. (Altho I feel all of those to some degree, depending on what I’m facing.)

I don’t know about “diving in”….I do know that sometimes when faced with a pain barrier, the only way out is through.

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]]> By: Judy http://thechroniclesofmunchkinland.com/2007/08/01/bubbling-to-the-surface/comment-page-1/#comment-2092 Judy Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:18:53 +0000 http://thechroniclesofmunchkinland.com/2007/08/01/bubbling-to-the-surface/#comment-2092 I'm not a therapist, so I don't really know. And I'm not a first mother, so I don't know from that angle either. But I'm a therapy junkie, I guess. Or a "lifer," as I sometimes call myself. But sometimes I just think that we really <strong>need</strong> to learn to swim, or to make sure that our swimming is as strong as it needs to be before we can go to the next level. That's been my experience anyways. I don't know, Jenna. I just don't know how you can force something. I just don't know how. Awareness comes to me at the oddest times, and it does come with my therapist's help, but I don't feel like it's <strong>forced</strong> when I'm not ready. If any of that makes sense. I’m not a therapist, so I don’t really know. And I’m not a first mother, so I don’t know from that angle either.

But I’m a therapy junkie, I guess. Or a “lifer,” as I sometimes call myself.

But sometimes I just think that we really need to learn to swim, or to make sure that our swimming is as strong as it needs to be before we can go to the next level. That’s been my experience anyways.

I don’t know, Jenna. I just don’t know how you can force something. I just don’t know how. Awareness comes to me at the oddest times, and it does come with my therapist’s help, but I don’t feel like it’s forced when I’m not ready.

If any of that makes sense.

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]]> By: Paragraphein http://thechroniclesofmunchkinland.com/2007/08/01/bubbling-to-the-surface/comment-page-1/#comment-2096 Paragraphein Wed, 01 Aug 2007 22:55:34 +0000 http://thechroniclesofmunchkinland.com/2007/08/01/bubbling-to-the-surface/#comment-2096 Jenna, I keep haunting trauma recovery websites lately. Have you checked any out? They might help. It's scary as shit. But some of my breakthrough moments have come from examining and pulling into the light stuff I was keeping buried. But it is also okay to go at your own pace, you know? You don't have to jump in with the worst of the worst, I wouldn't think. Jenna,

I keep haunting trauma recovery websites lately. Have you checked any out? They might help.

It’s scary as shit. But some of my breakthrough moments have come from examining and pulling into the light stuff I was keeping buried.

But it is also okay to go at your own pace, you know? You don’t have to jump in with the worst of the worst, I wouldn’t think.

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]]> By: suz http://thechroniclesofmunchkinland.com/2007/08/01/bubbling-to-the-surface/comment-page-1/#comment-2095 suz Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:01:39 +0000 http://thechroniclesofmunchkinland.com/2007/08/01/bubbling-to-the-surface/#comment-2095 OT: Has anyone told you your blog is rendering oddly? Maybe its just me but your middle body section is way way down the screen. There is a big huge white section in the middle...??? OT: Has anyone told you your blog is rendering oddly? Maybe its just me but your middle body section is way way down the screen. There is a big huge white section in the middle…???

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]]> By: Erin http://thechroniclesofmunchkinland.com/2007/08/01/bubbling-to-the-surface/comment-page-1/#comment-2094 Erin Wed, 01 Aug 2007 19:21:17 +0000 http://thechroniclesofmunchkinland.com/2007/08/01/bubbling-to-the-surface/#comment-2094 You are not alone. I still have some serious moments of avoidance in my therapy sessions. The problem is #5 always knows because I stop making eye contact with him and look beyond him to the pictures on the far wall (I think I have them memorized now :P ). Fear of that spiral of emotions out-of-control, of drowning in it, of losing all that I have gained in the last year are behind my avoidance. Think of your Casting Crowns song: "Every tear I've cried You hold in Your hand You never left my side And though my heart is torn I will praise You in this storm" Or these words from Jars of Clay's Sinking (this is one that got me through a lot in the last two years!): "But you see through my forever lies And you are not believing And I see in your forever eyes That you are forever healing" ((((Jenna)))) You are not alone. I still have some serious moments of avoidance in my therapy sessions. The problem is #5 always knows because I stop making eye contact with him and look beyond him to the pictures on the far wall (I think I have them memorized now :P ).

Fear of that spiral of emotions out-of-control, of drowning in it, of losing all that I have gained in the last year are behind my avoidance.

Think of your Casting Crowns song:

“Every tear I’ve cried
You hold in Your hand
You never left my side
And though my heart is torn
I will praise You in this storm”

Or these words from Jars of Clay’s Sinking (this is one that got me through a lot in the last two years!):
“But you see through my forever lies
And you are not believing
And I see in your forever eyes
That you are forever healing”

((((Jenna))))

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]]> By: suz http://thechroniclesofmunchkinland.com/2007/08/01/bubbling-to-the-surface/comment-page-1/#comment-2093 suz Wed, 01 Aug 2007 18:55:22 +0000 http://thechroniclesofmunchkinland.com/2007/08/01/bubbling-to-the-surface/#comment-2093 Dont drown. In the words of Dory from Finding Nemo: "Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming". All that being said, I am seriously with holding from my own therapist for much the same reasons. I am terrified of what lies beneath. If I say it outloud? OMG. It will be real. I can still deny it as long as I dont say it, right? As long as no one knows? LOL. Dont drown. In the words of Dory from Finding

Nemo: “Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming”.

All that being said, I am seriously with holding from my own therapist for much the same reasons. I am terrified of what lies beneath. If I say it outloud? OMG. It will be real. I can still deny it as long as I dont say it, right? As long as no one knows?

LOL.

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