Category Archives: Personal Story
A Tiger Named Pain
Writer’s Island Prompt #10 “MOST AMAZING EXPERIENCE” Pain is the shell that encloses your understanding. __Kahlil Gibran Thirty-plus years ago, I gave birth to my fourth and last child. She was beautiful and healthy, but I seemed to be in almost … Continue reading
Posted in A Tiger Named Pain, Biography, captivity, guidance, guru, Inner Voices, pain, Personal Story, questions, story, teach, wild thing
Tagged boulder, Carl Gustav Jung, college, exhaustion, fear, guided imagery, guru, imagination, imaging, inner space, Kahlil Gibran, lessons, pain, questions, rabbi riddles, refuel, relax, Rheumatoid Arthritis, secret place, teaching, Tiger, tomes, warm bath, wild flowers
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Map of Awareness
In a recent blog, I used the phrase map of awareness, and its been circling around inside my head ever since. I’m not aware of having ever used the phrase before, so it intrigues me that it sort of … Continue reading
Posted in change, child, Creativity, learning process, Map of Awareness, Personal Story, questions, Record, Steps In Learning, story, Subjectivity, wild thing
Tagged 2nd step in learning process, birth of Wild Thing, change, Creativity, desperate, forming personality, imagination, injured brain, journal pages, know vs aware, Map of Awareness, mile-markers, notebook, Record, sensory input, terms
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Personal Take Cont. (WT, as well)
I came home from the hospital to a totally different environment than the one I had left beneath the rear wheel of my father’s big black Pontiac. My world had been altered and, when I looked in the mirror, … Continue reading
Posted in Biography, boundaries, change, child, Definitions, experience, Family, Life, pain, Personal Story, Self-Awareness, wild thing
Tagged altered, beliefs, bogey man, change, comfort zone, different, don't fit in, embraced, Family, four year old, garbled, home, hospital, interpretations, lonely, misfit, not belonging, outside view, resistance, skewed, sniff, survival, uncomfortable in own skin, what's to be gained, worldview
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