Re: [ET2] Living Creatively At The Muppet Level

Dear all

I feel saddened by this communication about such personal trauma... While I am still feeling it in my body as I write, my state of separation isn’t doing so well with ET – and this is my first post and propelled by my emotions. It’s doubtless activated by all my stuff about ‘not feeling heard’.

It seems to remind me that when we are experiencing an upsurge of our own trauma it is so impossible to honour or have compassion for someone else’s. While I was reading Doc’s email my sense was that he was sharing something very precious – but obviously deeply personal and therefore 'different'. And maybe I was able to empathise more easily than usual with the masculine perspective – and it also touched that part of me that has been mother to a son. I felt deeply for the vulnerability of such a young boy living in an institution and the complete lack of trust in any adult around him. And I felt the violation of that total lack of choice. I was also aware that this could even be the first time of sharing so publicly and I felt appreciation for that. Because I do not know the mystery of being male and because it didn’t activate my own trauma - I didn’t compare it – but in retrospect I can feel how different it’s resonance is to the intrusive and disempowering violation of a girl child by an adult male. I can also sense how it might deeply wound that part of the masculine psyche of which I have no direct experience. I therefore appreciated the ways in which you managed to reassure yourself by finding what was positive and loving in such a disempowering experience. While it might have been possible to interpret your words as ‘I did this’ and ‘so why couldn’t you’ – I didn’t receive it that way and just appreciated your letting us share a deeply personal experience – and as you remind us, around your own suffering.

 Warmly

Linda..

 Kate Strong <kates_at_9j0GW_hbtTYl8D52p1LOesKDLVFPrhGmcpf346G8b7h4yRhVAela1CZQi9NmYqZ68HJWp3lzb4KsDEE.yahoo.invalid> wrote:
I wanted to say that screaming out to me (me!!!!) through this whole debate
has been a feeling that I wanted to say thank you to you Houston for
sharing your abuse story. I didn't want the *boy* to be lost in all this.
So thank you, your story resonated with me.

Kate

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Received on Wed May 28 2003 - 19:28:14 BST