Liz Fullerton
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Thanks Benjamin! Happy New Year blessings to you too!!!
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Hi Lorie,
Thank you so much for this response! It really helps to out me back in my center to read this.
I got this image as I read your response, it felt like an old image of a western medical college where I am sitting at the center of the auditorium and presenting something. There are all these men, smoking and conjecturing and yelling down to me. But I am seated in my self-hood, I am presenting something that I am curious about and excited about and so I am open to the learning but also am protecting myself from the rampant patriarchy in this room. These men are both scholars and interjects, and when I noticed that it felt more playful on my part than serious. They didn’t seem to like that, which just made me want to play more :).
Thank you for naming the negative animus, I have the inclination to find out more about that now through Jung’s work. I am also realizing through reading this that the biggest tool is inner sensing. Cultivating this practice, as we are, will help me to discern if this is a young wound pattern or a larger societal pattern, and to be kind and present to it either way. Thanks Lorie! Sending you lots of love.
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Hi Vicki,
Thank you so much for sharing this. I am working so much with similar themes of not abandoning myself. This inquiry you are in around allowing different parts of you to emerge, the invitation of the outcast archetype, feels like such a juicy crossroads. Making room for yourself and your ancient song! Yes! I am with you in this soul petition for that kind of spaciousness.
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Thank you so much Hung. For your openness and all that you shared of what brings you to this very moment. I really appreciate you as we embark of this Journey to Restore the Heart. I feel your essence shining through and it is so moving.
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Good morning Ellen, I just took some time to read through your PM and your generous morning pages. I hope you are recovering fully from covid. Something that really stands out for me from what you shared is that you started with your gold first. An heirloom from your family, it seems. And I love this connection between your heart(fire) and your inner trust (water). Most of my understanding of elements is through an Ayurvedic perspective, and what stands out to me about this combination is that in Ayurveda when fire exists in someones constitution, it doesn’t exist there alone, but in tandem with water contained by it so it can burn bright and balanced without burning too hot and through. Something about what you shared reminded me of that. That connection between heart and trust, and maybe their relationship in you is both the gold and the lead, if I understood you correctly, depending on the nature and quality of their expression. How beautiful. Thank you for sharing, I really enjoyed reading your morning page journal entry too.
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Hi Amy, I just wanted to say thank you for everything you shared here. I can’t begin to tell you how much I resonate with so much of what you are bringing here, and the way you share it. This idea of adopting “false selves” really stands out to me. This survival skill we learn, and can be such a resource, until it’s not. I am also working so much with what you said about feeling outside of the body and not abandoning the self.
Something that I feel in my body when I read your prima materia is a readiness. A willingness. Almost like an urgency, except it’s not going to move too fast and forget something, because it feels held in your awareness. In your beautiful distillation process. Thank you for sharing your prima materia and I am honored to continue on this path with you.
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Oh Benjamin, I am so moved by your expression of you. All that you have traversed and recovered and emerged from. I am so moved by this line, “I am learning to exist, to matter to myself, to know what I want (that is a BIG edge!), and to feel I have a right to ask for what I want.” I feel such a resonance with this commitment and edge.
As someone who has also experienced similar abuse, I just want to say that your courage in sharing all this, and how you share it, grounds me in this work we are all doing together. I’ve thought a lot about what happens when these archetypes of mother, father, brother, family etc. step outside of the boundaries of love when we are young. How that dissolves and obliterates a certain frame for us. But here you are, in this beautiful and tenderly reconstructed container of you, such a unique frame, and I feel grateful to be learning in your company.
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Hi Karla, Thank you for your response and the sacred container we are weaving. I appreciate all your guidance on how to drop into my prima materia look forward to our lab group tonight.
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Thank you so much, Lorie! I will be chewing on your response for a while, and I so appreciate all the threads and details in your answer.
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Good to know and thanks so much for getting back to me.
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Hi Joanne,
Thank you for your words and thoughts. This inquiry into who our council are is so rich, because in essence it does seem like it is just different parts of us. I wonder what response you got if and when you asked your council what they need?
I really relate to your inquiry around if abandoning makes them more scared. I would say personally, for me, I have found that to be totally true. I really love how Lorie says in the pause practice that we can put our hand on our animal body to calm that ancient part of us. Sometimes that is just what this council feels like, a scared animal.
Thanks for you witnessing here to my PM and for your open and curious heart. Looking forward to this journey together.
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Hi Amy, thanks so much for your words. I also felt so curious and almost inspired to read that so many others are working with something that feels so similar to this council. The potential for alchemy in this fertile vessel we are shaping! I’m really looking forward to how this will all unfold too. Sending warmth and support to you in this journey.
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awww, that’s really nice to hear Kelli, I have a sweet spot for nurses too 🙂 Well my partner and I are musicians, it’s how we met, and we are in a band together and then I am in a different band with some folks from Philly :).
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Yes! I would so love to take a walk! Let’s circle back to this idea when the wood is upon us 🙂
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I can only imagine what a big undertaking this work on progress is ❤
And yes, I am a forever student and lover of Ayurveda. I called Dr. Lad’s name in a second after you so it bounced off of your echo like a relay. Perhaps it was calling in him and the speaker. I love when he says things like, “The speaker is very funny today” hahaha. So sweet. He is like honey in the heart.
Excited to connect more throughout this year.