EWR : 09 (Re)Claiming Connectiong

Embodied Writing : Relating, Relationships, & Trauma series

This week we (re)claim connection.

Connection to our Self and to others.  

In the first three weeks of this series I invited you to explore defining what relationship means to you.  I invite you to go back to review what you wrote then and see what you would add or subtract from it, a couple months later.  

I also invite you to deeply feel into the question of how you want to actually feel in relationship?  What emotions do you want to experience?  What physical sensations do you want to have?  Consider these questions with your relationship with your Self in mind, then with those you are or want to be emotionally intimate with, and if you like also with those you are or want to be sexually intimate with.  How do the answers change?  Does the difference in answers make sense to you?

A truth for me is that part of my beginning to develop a loving relationship with my Self was being able to see myself reflected in the eyes of another.  When I was able to see myself as they saw me.  This is …