tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4879615387850345622.post7268227363563189107..comments2023-07-17T23:10:02.228+10:00Comments on Discombobula: Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01122659239039900398noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4879615387850345622.post-88012597239628200592013-08-24T12:43:18.254+10:002013-08-24T12:43:18.254+10:00I love this comment even more, reading it from acr...I love this comment even more, reading it from across the miles of August 2013. <br /><br />This feels like the crux of everything really - to love the unlovable bits of ourselves. I guess that transpires out into the world as well. Can we love politicians? I dunno :)Suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01122659239039900398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4879615387850345622.post-90945871612083663012011-02-10T09:33:08.350+11:002011-02-10T09:33:08.350+11:00Sue.... just hugs. That is all. :-)Sue.... just hugs. That is all. :-)Jeannette Alteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06574051760314762024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4879615387850345622.post-66541644630487781542011-02-09T14:06:53.242+11:002011-02-09T14:06:53.242+11:00I so appreciate the wisdom from all of you here. ...I so appreciate the wisdom from all of you here. Thanks for taking the time to comment.Suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01122659239039900398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4879615387850345622.post-91623730948285060472011-02-09T13:37:10.512+11:002011-02-09T13:37:10.512+11:00KG - your comment today is one of the reasons why ...KG - your comment today is one of the reasons why blogging is so brilliant to me. I have been struggling again the past few days and I so love what you say here. The pain from seeing truth ... yes.<br /><br />Jo - "Stop it!" It's so simple ... but such a labyrinth to get there, sometimes. It is so, so, so, simple. So hard. That poor man, what a struggle to have to deal with that.Suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01122659239039900398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4879615387850345622.post-51818677797379768852011-02-09T12:54:31.957+11:002011-02-09T12:54:31.957+11:00During a period of great personal angst, I met a p...During a period of great personal angst, I met a psychologist friend. I asked if he had any advice in dealing with the naysayers in my head. He related a time in his life when his little 2 year old son was stricken with leukemia. It was a long and fitful battle of 3 years. I asked him, how did he do it; how did he cope. He said for all those years he battled back and forth with the mumbo jumbo rationalizations and arguments. Being a psychologist, that is what he did. He analyzed and countered. Until one day he got to the end of his rope and just spoke to the fears. He said "Stop It!" He refused to listen to their arguments, threats, or predictions. He did not let them get a word in edgewise. And it worked.Johttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13265908367915608881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4879615387850345622.post-47418335013060209722011-02-09T08:07:11.216+11:002011-02-09T08:07:11.216+11:00Wow. Yes. What Erin said.
The process of untangl...Wow. Yes. What Erin said. <br /><br />The process of untangling the authentic from the liars is harder than I like. But slowly - surely, I find myself getting angry with the liars and arguing with them. And then a new revelation comes from that argument that the liars did not want me to see. That makes me smile even when it's painful. <br /><br />They would have me in perpetual dirty pain - pain that never ends and infects with dispair. And pain is not something I can opt out of. But, I can choose to have my pain be clean pain - pain felt from seeing truth. And THAT pain cleanses and washes away the dirt and burns up the tendrils of the voices that lie....Jeannette Alteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06574051760314762024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4879615387850345622.post-50140450096499704032011-02-03T09:52:15.957+11:002011-02-03T09:52:15.957+11:00MysticBrit - It *was* so like your post the other ...MysticBrit - It *was* so like your post the other day! :) And yes, I agree, reassurance reassurance reassurance. <br /><br />Erin - that is totally empowering, choosing the authentic ones over the liars. I think it's pretty much one of the hardest things I've ever done.<br /><br />Kel - thank you, my dear. You know, the deceit of all of this territory means that we think, "Oh, I'm the only one who tries to kill the wrong thing. Other people don't do that, only me." How ridiculous that is. But still, I was surprised to see ... "What, YOU, Kel?" As if it's only me who does that ... so silly!!Suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01122659239039900398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4879615387850345622.post-3288211435179338572011-02-02T18:29:56.909+11:002011-02-02T18:29:56.909+11:00killing the wrong thing
oh i so resonate
great li...killing the wrong thing<br />oh i so resonate <br />great little piece this one :)Kelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18425317942978557478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4879615387850345622.post-19952125596504113842011-02-02T12:13:04.540+11:002011-02-02T12:13:04.540+11:00You know, I'm learning to choose which voices ...You know, I'm learning to choose which voices I listen to, and it's empowering to choose the authentic ones over the liars. But it's hard.Erinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01067954787472463337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4879615387850345622.post-86718690455668094272011-02-01T18:25:26.022+11:002011-02-01T18:25:26.022+11:00This is so like my post yesterday, but in your ini...This is so like my post yesterday, but in your inimitable style, Sue. I think we're on the same page here. We have to get out of the habit of listening to that five-year-old who wants to run things, and instead reassure him/her that he/she doesn't have to, 'cos there's nothing to fear; indeed, fear is nothing:)Harry Rileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14341037712756284832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4879615387850345622.post-46114880887514808752011-02-01T15:29:37.428+11:002011-02-01T15:29:37.428+11:00I love that :)
Sometimes I think you are further ...I love that :)<br /><br />Sometimes I think you are further along than me in regards to this stuff. Or at least you are at the moment :P It is very inspiring. And I agree, I really do think they are misguided parts lookin' for some lurve in some way. Or at the very least a kind jailer who will keep them chained but won't torture them :)Suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01122659239039900398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4879615387850345622.post-55790581895652514742011-02-01T13:26:53.197+11:002011-02-01T13:26:53.197+11:00'Tis true, they're not the boss of you but...'Tis true, they're not the boss of you but they sure feel bossy at times. I guess I sometimes think of them as my children, my petulant three year olds, who are ever insistent about wanting their fill, wanting it now, to be placated. But I talk to them with respect and some weird kind of "love"? and then they behave...if only for a while.blackanthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13730708996961329984noreply@blogger.com