Now we're really beginning to play with language - "beautying" - I love it! Thanks for your encouragement Bertus. I think the dream has some more to teach me .... so I keep listening.
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Thank you, Susan, for this important text. I would love to have a reflective conversation on ideas you express in your text. I am especialy interested in discussion concerning contemporary aesthetics and beauty. Many non-ecological and life breaking ways how people take care of nature, how they tend meadows, gardens, trees, agricultural lands, urban parks and peri-urban forests are refered to beauty creation.
Paying attention to the vital intelligence of our inner worlds re-framed as a 'courageous act of rebellion' - sounds like a game-changer to me. Brilliant.
A beautiful essay. One wonders whether perhaps many of us might have been having that dream - if we had a sufficient level of sensitivity to the 'internal voice', whatever one might call or characterize it as. The experience of the girl appears as a sort of manifestation around what Jung might have called 'collective dreaming' - articulating the concerns that many of us have, in the face of the seemingly unstoppable systemic forces that have a fair amount of inertia; and yet nevertheless must be surmounted, somehow, if we are to emerge a thriving ecological world (which we must). Perhaps following the invitation to turn towards the experience is indeed an incredibly useful, first step -
What a beautiful writing Susan - the shame of being helpless. I have just been listening to an interview of Gabor Mate and Diane Poole Heller about attachment needs and particularly relate to an emotional vulnerabilty about inter dependence after a childhood experience of avoidant attachment. Our cultural mileu mirrors this avoidant attachment - people on phones, only partially present, services not willing to provide what people really need. I deeply long for the natural interrelationship that I know is possible - but the how eludes me because it feels to me that I, just like the culture need to dismantle some beliefs, attend to some unhealed trauma within myself and face towards a different way of contributing. And that is terrifying to see that as a therapist, I have been unwilling to see the lack of authentic interrelationship inherent in that model of healing that is contributing to our overall culture. The shame I have felt in my own vulnerability and brokenness, I have been able to mask by being the "expert" with others. Dr Ingrid Clayton's Youtube and Instagram posts model another way of therapeutic interrelationship that is authentic, accessible and equalising -messed up human to messed up human. Thank you for your consideration that you have shared - I have found the questions it has evoked extremely helpful.
Now we're really beginning to play with language - "beautying" - I love it! Thanks for your encouragement Bertus. I think the dream has some more to teach me .... so I keep listening.
Well, to me, you have just flung wide and far my dear. What a beautying bit of doing this was....
I wouldn't be surprised if your dream is now ready to move on.
Thank you, Susan, for this important text. I would love to have a reflective conversation on ideas you express in your text. I am especialy interested in discussion concerning contemporary aesthetics and beauty. Many non-ecological and life breaking ways how people take care of nature, how they tend meadows, gardens, trees, agricultural lands, urban parks and peri-urban forests are refered to beauty creation.
Thank you so much for this beautiful piece Susan. It really resonated with me and I realise having read it that I really needed to hear these words!
Paying attention to the vital intelligence of our inner worlds re-framed as a 'courageous act of rebellion' - sounds like a game-changer to me. Brilliant.
A beautiful essay. One wonders whether perhaps many of us might have been having that dream - if we had a sufficient level of sensitivity to the 'internal voice', whatever one might call or characterize it as. The experience of the girl appears as a sort of manifestation around what Jung might have called 'collective dreaming' - articulating the concerns that many of us have, in the face of the seemingly unstoppable systemic forces that have a fair amount of inertia; and yet nevertheless must be surmounted, somehow, if we are to emerge a thriving ecological world (which we must). Perhaps following the invitation to turn towards the experience is indeed an incredibly useful, first step -
What a beautiful writing Susan - the shame of being helpless. I have just been listening to an interview of Gabor Mate and Diane Poole Heller about attachment needs and particularly relate to an emotional vulnerabilty about inter dependence after a childhood experience of avoidant attachment. Our cultural mileu mirrors this avoidant attachment - people on phones, only partially present, services not willing to provide what people really need. I deeply long for the natural interrelationship that I know is possible - but the how eludes me because it feels to me that I, just like the culture need to dismantle some beliefs, attend to some unhealed trauma within myself and face towards a different way of contributing. And that is terrifying to see that as a therapist, I have been unwilling to see the lack of authentic interrelationship inherent in that model of healing that is contributing to our overall culture. The shame I have felt in my own vulnerability and brokenness, I have been able to mask by being the "expert" with others. Dr Ingrid Clayton's Youtube and Instagram posts model another way of therapeutic interrelationship that is authentic, accessible and equalising -messed up human to messed up human. Thank you for your consideration that you have shared - I have found the questions it has evoked extremely helpful.