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Rhoda Weber Mack's avatar

What I hear more than anything here is how trusting your body knowledge makes you so fully alive. I'm learning, slowly, to listen to that steady quiet knowing. I think we knew these things as a child. Why do we forget?

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Katherine E. Standefer's avatar

Living alive leaves us as open to pain as pleasure. It doesn't sound brave to trust your body knowledge-- but oh, it so is!

Thanks for reading, Rho!

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Bruce's avatar

Kati, this is a moving instance of what we have been talking about - for you sepsis and sensing a malevolent spirit are two different languages for describing the same experience.

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Leesa Whisker's avatar

I love how you began trusting yourself and your body. I'm learning and listening. I really relate to living mostly outside of my body, always labelled over sensitive as a child. And the not knowing what to do with it. It can be so dark, but there are events that make me laugh out loud too, some of the things that happen are absolute spiritual comedy. Here's to more light in the darkness :)

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Katherine E. Standefer's avatar

Here's to more light in the darkness indeed!

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Rhoda Weber Mack's avatar

As open to pain as pleasure, yes I am slowly looking the one in the eye.

Is that why we need to be brave?

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