The Path to Healing Support Group got off to a successful start.

Path to Healing Support Group

Part I / III

  

     One of the members, Ruth (not her real name), graciously gave her permission to share her story on the blog because she felt that it might help others who felt blocked in achieving their happiness. She was anxious to learn how to move past her block and deal with the pain that she was experiencing.

     This blog will be presented in three parts

1. Initial presenting issues
2.  Deeper down the path
3. Tools to

a.    Face negative pain emotions

b.     Reclaim energies from negative emotions

c.     Use her positive, freed up energies to use her talents and gifts

     Ruth came to the group because recently she was offered two positions that would have been her dream job both in terms of work and salary. She was paralyzed, she had the applications but didn’t’ fill them in. The questions in her mind were why did she hesitate?

     I felt that the group needed to provide a safe warm supportive place where she could express her thoughts and feelings. My initial response was to listen and allow her to talk.

     Upon entering there was a slight edge in her greeting. Once she had seated, quickly she became very tearful, and escalated to feeling like she couldn’t breathe. She started choking. Her response was quick and intense. I could feel her pain and her discomfort increasing as she began to try and piece together her pain.

     I offered some tissues, some water and a whiff of Sunbreeze, a healing oil. Ruth continued and began to talk about the issues that had emerged for her. Supportive non-judgmental listening and creating a safe holding environment is key to letting the path to healing unfold.

     Despite being viscerally upset, Ruth was able to bring up issues and make connections to events in her life that she thought were resolved but were still hot.

     The triggering event was an interaction with colleagues who were working with her on a project. Despite being the creative lead on the project and in which she guided the group to an increasingly successful outcome for the last three years of the project, Ruth had become rattled by the response of her colleagues to her leadership. She felt guilty, perhaps she was wrong. She felt the need to justify her position. At first, the causes of the guilt were unclear.

     The path led from the feeling of guilt, which was not in fact something to be guilty about, to deeper relationship issues. The relationships within the family of Ruth when she was a child set the groundwork for self-doubt, self-blame that she was experiencing now as an adult.

     Do you  experience guilt, or other feelings that you can't trace to their origin yet the feelings bother you or somehow hold you back?

Feel free to ask questions or to come to the group and let us help you transform your energy.

The next blog post on Thursday will take us deeper down the path to the sources of the pain and blockage.