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By Feelings.
I always knew that my quilting was Art Therapy, I just never knew how…it just was. I never sat down and dissected the parts or even looked closely at the process, but rather was focused on the fabric, quilts and… Continue reading
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Quilted into My Art
Last week at Dial Help, I was given a thumb nail sketch of a few different disorders or what I guess we call Mental Conditions or ways in dealing with pain and abuse. One of the things we talked about… Continue reading
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Deviating from What is Standard.
Our training last night was so revealing to me on so many levels. We do role playing on the phones. Meaning, a person is the caller and we are the liners (on the crisis line) and we then get… Continue reading
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My Art Shows my Inner Changes.
I had put off pricing my quilts, for the task seemed overwhelming. Today I asked a special friend of mine to give me hand, to see if we could find a respectable price that our local market would hold, yet… Continue reading
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A Journal to take Home
Last week when I sat by the Detective and asked him how things were going….he said, "I have two adolescent boys (who are talking to him about their sexual abuse) and I don't have nothing to give them….I am not sure… Continue reading
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A spiritual experience for me.
"We often underestimate the power of giving voice, but it is real and sustaining. It is the basis of all song. It is why prisoners break into song. It is why the blues are sung, even when no one is… Continue reading
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Unexpressed fear.
Mothering for certain is where my greatest weaknesses lie, where all my scars seem to congregate and wait for one child to push a button, and all of the unexpressed emotions come charging forward, ready to spill from my mouth.… Continue reading
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In Control Within the Flow
Today's reading, March 21,in the Book of Awakening, by Mark Nepo "To Harbor and Release" I love this one. "Often the pain of resisting makes us rust like iron, and in order to re-enter the flow of life, we need to… Continue reading
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How we were treated.
I listened to the book, "The Voice of Knowledge" by Janet Mills and Don Miguel Ruiz, and found this part to hit close to home. "When we discover that we are not what we believe we are, the foundation of… Continue reading
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Unplugged
In the confusion between vulnerability and how it felt equal to abuse, I had to look up the definition of abuse. "to use wrongly, mistreatment, ill-use, to hurt or injure, improper use, abuse a privilege…" And vulnerability was "exposed to… Continue reading
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