I M Perfect lady

"Then if you speak, you must not show your face, Or, if you show your face, you must not speak.  Shakespeare

 In Annie Rogers book, "A Shining Affliction" she writes,

"These words of Shakespeare's.  I make my own translation quickly; "Speak the truth and hide your feelings in response to her nonresponse; or make up what you think she wants to hear, but shut up about what you really feel."   

What is so mind blowing about this book, it is about therapists, but also therapist who are unhealed or who are blocked when it come to healing their patience, due to their own issues.  Incredible and astonishing and true. 

The weaving of this story is spellbinding…and tragic and enlightening, how the patients truly is in charge, how they bring in their truth, how they are so authentic and then how it is met.

Into what hands does their truth fall?

And how is it held and responded to.

I believe, if the folks in therapy knew how critical it is for us to find someone to hold our truths, that it is WAY more about how they hear us then, HOW we tell our truths.

It is my belief, that by the time an abused confused person happens to be sitting in a chair in any therapy type situation, they are desperately seeking someone to get them back to reality. 

And, if the therapist ISN'T in their own reality, HOW in the Hell, can they get us to ours???

This book is a Must read for anyone considering the line of truth work. That is what therapy is. We are looking to you to help us find our path in reality.  

I just know by my own experience, that when I wasn't in my truth, I couldn't see truth in others.  

Now that I am, I can be a witness to anothers truth.  I believe, to the depth of my being, that therapy will be changing in this direction. It will be a field of truth!