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A couple of posts ago I asked for questions - and I sure got one. Here is a part of it: “I’d like to know what you know about abused and abuser, masochist and sadist. The thing that most interests me, is the possibility of one person understanding […]Intimacy: how to get more of it
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I think we can get more intimacy in our lives - but indirectly. When I say “indirectly” I don’t mean sneakily. To explain this strange situation I need to explain what I mean by intimacy. Our intimate moments are those where we feel that we are close […]Your Neighbour and Your Self: Which First?
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Jesus said (summarising the law concerned with people rather than focused on God):
You shall love your neighbour as yourself. Here’s my guess about what Jesus meant. We naturally want to be healthy: we spit out what tastes bad. If we see a projectile heading for us we dodge. […]Finding a Free-er Place
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This post started as a friend and I talking about our childhoods, which were a bit unusual for Australians. I won’t talk about theirs, because I haven’t asked their permission, but I’ll explain a little bit about mine. I grew up in Evangelical Christianity. This was unusual in Australia - […]Being Negative about Being Negative
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I read a post on a blog a couple of days ago (which had best remain nameless). The writer told us he was tired of negative people - he didn’t want to hear their complaints or listen to their whining. He (you guessed it was a he […]A Website for Listening and Support
One commenter on my last post (Connecting with the Emotion) pointed me to a website she has set up to provide a place of listening and mutual support.
It’s called bigwhitewall.com. Here is what she said.
I set up a dedicated emotional health website bigwhitewall.com to provide a space for listening and mutual support. It has been […]Connecting with the Emotion
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Connecting with others usually means connecting with their emotions. We usually do this quite instinctively. We adjust our body posture, tone of voice and what we say depending on how the other person looks to us.
We have a very sophisticated system for relating to other people. We usually aren’t aware […]
