tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10702583.post423123477665633757..comments2023-09-19T04:02:01.591-07:00Comments on Soul Surgery: Resolving to "Love Thyself"Carol L. Skolnickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17188135050692219250noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10702583.post-9982065950320426462009-01-06T11:58:00.000-08:002009-01-06T11:58:00.000-08:00Nice article Carol, I like it.Rings true for me - ...Nice article Carol, I like it.<BR/><BR/>Rings true for me - in fact, I find the work almost encourages an opposite approach to trying to self-love - turn the volume up on the self and other-judgements, get pettier, nastier, really scrape the barrel - and inquire.<BR/><BR/>I'm reminded of cleaning out my father's rainwater collecting barrel last year - it was covered in algae and at the bottom was thick sludge - if we'd stopped before the bottom, that would have been OK, and it would have had plenty of stuff for the algae to feed and build on again much quicker again.<BR/><BR/>JonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10702583.post-63179444514511979382009-01-05T10:21:00.000-08:002009-01-05T10:21:00.000-08:00Someone I am interested in told me that she loved ...Someone I am interested in told me that she loved me. and wham. I should tell her I love her. I should know if I love her. <BR/>so I had been feeling very codependent for several days and hating it. And I had been doing the work on it (quite a bit this one day) and wasn't really seeing it as I thought I should see it. But later in the evening I was reading from Who Would You Be Without Your Story and the whole sense of failure about being codependant turned around. It was the damndest thing. My success was being codependant. Most counter-intuitive thing I think that has ever happened to me, but possibly one of the most freeing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com