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@Molly – I adore you. Glad your inner pussy can hang out with mine. God that sounds awful. Rephrase as necessary. Also neat that your teacher called you.

@Dale – Right on. That’s great that it was useful, even if the timing was kind of off! :)

@Kate – that is the most depressing story in the entire world! We need to hang out more…

@everyone else – thanks for reading and thinking with me. I’ll rest up until I’m ready to share part 3, if I get there. Right now I’m really not in the mood though.

If you’re familiar with EFT then you already know about the concept of “dancing around the pain” — that you play at the edges, rather than going in deep.

That’s what we do here. We don’t dive into the pain.

We also don’t encourage people to dive into the pain because what we’re trying to do is meet them where they’re at in the present moment. A concept you’re probably already familiar with as well because of your background in Buddhism.

And since you’ve studied Buddhism, you also know about the whole compassion thing.

There are many, many ways to demonstrate compassion (none of which I’m using at the moment) but suggesting to someone how they should be dealing with their pain is probably not even in the top ten.

I get that your intention is pure-hearted and comes from a place of wanting to help. At the same time I’m feeling frustrated because I need to know that other people reading this can feel safe meeting their pain in the way that’s right for them.

And that I can document my process in the way that is peaceful and right for me, without censoring myself.

What I’m trying to do here in these posts is to model an honest, authentic conversation that I have with myself. I’m not modeling “how to do it right”.

I’m modeling the act of engaging in vulnerable interaction and reporting exactly what happened as it happened.

The idea isn’t that someone learns how to do this whole communicating-with-yourself thing in a certain way, but that they might end up feeling empowered enough to give it a try.

Here’s what I’m not looking for in these posts: advice on how to do it better or differently.

Here’s what I AM looking for: resonance. If other people reading this can relate to the pain or get more interested in their own [insert non-cheesy term for the self-work process], that’s beautiful and amazing and inspiring to me.

When people write to me about how terrified they are to start blogging, it’s usually because they’re scared that other people are going to show up and suggest that they do uncomfortable things. My job is to reassure them that they aren’t going to be dragged kicking and screaming from their comfort zone.

Ironically it tends to be the comments like this — the really kind-hearted well-intentioned ones — that inadvertently push people back into their shells. Which is why we try and tread lightly here.

Sometimes it’s easier, sometimes it’s harder.

Holy Flashbacks, Batman!

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This is what I’m afraid of. Does ANYONE have good memories of seventh grade? I’ve mostly got suppressed memories.

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