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The seed I would like to transform is my negative emotions into something more useful - during these trying political times .. The seed I would cultivate is my deep listening - I thank you all for this community.

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The seed I would like to transform is my negative emotions into something more useful - during these trying political times .. The seed I would cultivate is my deep listening - I thank you all for this community.

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Reviewing and using the feelings/needs/sensations list, I feel expansive. It's a tool I look forward to coming back to more frequently.

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It feels silly to say, but I'm getting so emotional in these modules. I took a break from the most recent one to read an interview with Mary Oliver and I'm thinking about the joy of negotiating relationships with others vis-a-vis the expansiveness of our unburdened relationships with nature. There's a deep gladness in both of those types of connection.

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I want to practice identifying my needs in times of conflict and exploring those nonjudgmentally -- maybe it will help open up my heart to new connections and deeper compassion.

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I hope to steadily change the way I communicate with my loves, old and new. I want to learn new ways of being

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I first heard of Meenadchi's work in April 2023 but did not take action. Fast forward a year when the universe conspired to put their work in front of me again at a time when I'm going through the deepest, most painful rupture in my relationship with my life partner. I am so grateful to be learning these tools and for this way through.

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My intention is to broaden my thinking and toolkit to relate more carefully, and in doing so, create the conditions for people to connect and thrive. 

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My intention is to broaden my thinking and toolkit to relate more carefully, and in doing so, create the conditions for people to connect and thrive. 

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this module left me feeling open to tapping into the wisdom that already exists within my body. giving me permission to attune to my body sensations/experiences to celebrate what is already happening. that feels, for me, part of the belonging exploration. there are experiences every minute of every day my body is having in service of me and that helps me feel more connected to myself.

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Can anyone relate to that feeling of becoming pulled in when looking into/at a flame?  I feel like the course is calling me to look in, soften my gaze and let things flicker until it makes my version of sense.Thank you for creating such a beautiful space. 

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Can anyone relate to that feeling of becoming pulled in when looking into/at a flame?  I feel like the course is calling me to look in, soften my gaze and let things flicker until it makes my version of sense.Thank you for creating such a beautiful space. 

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I'm going to start asking myself, "What type of water am I today?"

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Thank you for giving me the gift of knowing that my authentic, somatic, verbal response to compliments and criticism allows for bodily freedom. And the freedom to know I an authentically good, especially when I am not shackled by the need to hold the feelings of others.

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Saturn, spinning and luminescing like a Pink Dream! 

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I'm excited to practice some new tools that will help support my authentic self in relationships with family and friends 💓

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I have a complicated and shameful relationship with anger. Born out of a need to have empathy for others, I often don't allow myself to process anger I may feel, without feeling shameful for feeling that way. Like I am supposed to understand why that person hurt me, therefore I will have no room for my own anger.

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I'm so grateful for the opportunity to get to know my body with the intention of loving her harder than I ever have before -- I am so grateful for her forgiveness <3

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Thus far, this course has brought me a deeper understanding of myself which has led to a feeling of lightness in my body. I appreciate this very much <3

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I feel a great sense of freedom know that I will be able to identify the needs that is associated with my somatic response. That makes me so excited to move through life and relationships with more ease and grace.

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Feeling incredibly hopeful in starting this journey and feeling grateful to be here.

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My intention is to learn to stay better connected to my self - my feelings and needs in relationship

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My intention is to learn to stay better connected to my self - my feelings and needs in relationship

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I appreciated the framing of rupture as a pathway to deepening in terms of understanding what a relationship can hold. This gave me courage. 

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I appreciated the framing of rupture as a pathway to deepening in terms of understanding what a relationship can hold. This gave me courage. 

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Appreciating the example of how empathy is shown in Sri Lanka. It makes me think of the ways it is expressed in my own culture and how important it is to acknowledge those ways as wise. 

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Appreciating the example of how empathy is shown in Sri Lanka. It makes me think of the ways it is expressed in my own culture and how important it is to acknowledge those ways as wise. 

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Grateful to be here. Kindness and boldness together are hard. Welcoming the discomfort of learning to embody this dialectic more compassionately, confidently and wholly.

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When I hear that is is safe for me to have deep needs, my body softens, my jaw unclenches 

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When I hear that is is safe for me to have deep needs, my body softens, my jaw unclenches 

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When I hear that my needs are important, my body begins to soften on the edges and tighten in the stomach

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When I hear that my needs are important, my body begins to soften on the edges and tighten in the stomach

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Laying down an intention for greater compassion and kindness toward myself and others. Cultivating greater resilience and willingness to sit in uncomfortable engagements with other folks and beloveds.

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I'm all in!

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As a person who could not participate in the live session this week, while I wish I could have seen the role plays with the inner critics, it was also eye opening to see the compassion and emotion and even triggers. It is beautiful to witness bringing what lurks in the shadows of ourselves brought to light and met with love. <3

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As a person who could not participate in the live session this week, while I wish I could have seen the role plays with the inner critics, it was also eye opening to see the compassion and emotion and even triggers. It is beautiful to witness bringing what lurks in the shadows of ourselves brought to light and met with love. <3

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is us. it is a part of ourselves trying to get a need met with whatever tools it has

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Thank you for the vulnerability today. And the offer of being witnessed. It was so hard to hear how people's inner critics talk to them. I am grateful for tools for compassion. And I truly hope folks can find ways to see they are worthy of love. Worthy of taking up space. Just worthy.

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witnessing is so powerful and has resonated deeply with me today. I struggle so much with self compassion and inner critic and I see a path forward that allows for me kindness, spaciousness, and grief. 

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witnessing is so powerful and has resonated deeply with me today. I struggle so much with self compassion and inner critic and I see a path forward that allows for me kindness, spaciousness, and grief. 

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Openness. Shared Humanity. So grateful.

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We all have them, and we all have the capacity to show care and be in loving relationship with them.

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The example compliments/critical feedbacks from this week brought up a lot of what ifs for me. I really resonated with a lot of what folks had to say about their step 2s--especially meeting compliments with "you are liking what I'm giving you on purpose, you wouldn't like the real me." Really sitting with my fear of "ruining" people's enjoyment of the service I provide them.

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Big a ha for this week: Slowing down interactions to make space for processing my needs and the other person's needs is a pathway towards more connection and healing

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I am setting the intention to notice, and perhaps let go a bit of my tendency to stay in either step one or two. As I have been developing a process similar to step three through mindfulness, I want to push myself to take the next step, step four, and consider the needs of the other person in the situation.

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Loved that yesterdays process was described as a way of slowing down and connecting head to heart.

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Loved that yesterdays process was described as a way of slowing down and connecting head to heart.

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1. Give people permission to trust their own intuition and wisdom.

2. Give people only as much information as they can handle.

3. Don’t take their power away.

4. Keep your own ego out of it.

5. Help them feel safe enough to fail.

6. Give guidance and help with humility and thoughtfulness.

7. Create a container for complex emotions, fear, trauma, etc.
8. Allow them to make different decisions and have different experiences than you would.

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Loved the conversation about how the empathy guess is like learning a pirouette, not the whole dance. That helped me relax into SO much. I am feeling so much longing to be back in real-time practice with you all! 

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Loved the conversation about how the empathy guess is like learning a pirouette, not the whole dance. That helped me relax into SO much. I am feeling so much longing to be back in real-time practice with you all! 

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In moments of conflict, there is no way, there’s a merge of wills. We have opportunities to learn the wills of others amongst our own.

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My intention is to expand my vocabulary of feelings and sensations words so that I might learn to honestly assess feelings and sensations with less judgement and inner conflict. 

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My intention is to expand my vocabulary of feelings and sensations words so that I might learn to honestly assess feelings and sensations with less judgement and inner conflict. 

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it is motivating to be able to connect to myself and others and hold empathy for someone else, while also holding my ground and being true to my experience, not fawning. It's sometimes scary, but wonderful to be share that space. Two things can seem opposed and still be true!

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it is motivating to be able to connect to myself and others and hold empathy for someone else, while also holding my ground and being true to my experience, not fawning. It's sometimes scary, but wonderful to be share that space. Two things can seem opposed and still be true!

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So grateful to hear the stories today! I learned it's important to know my own needs and how it connects to my emotions, so I'll be able to engage in conflict with people I care about. I'm looking forward to exploring what some of my own unmet/met needs are.

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Time, energy, and clarity is need to take on someone’s else’s perspective without undermining your own, but an empathy guess can turn conflict into connection.

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Love the poop and fart bit❣️ Gonna try bring that feeling or awareness to/ with my little kiddos. 💛

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I've been working with Polyvagal theory and somatic practices in every aspect of my work and it feels good to see new ways to incorporate them via creative verbalizations and verbal empathy! And thank you for the reminder about PLAY. Really enjoying these connections. I do have to be asynchronous for the next few weeks and will miss being in real-time practice with everyone. But so grateful to be working through this material.  

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I've been working with Polyvagal theory and somatic practices in every aspect of my work and it feels good to see new ways to incorporate them via creative verbalizations and verbal empathy! And thank you for the reminder about PLAY. Really enjoying these connections. I do have to be asynchronous for the next few weeks and will miss being in real-time practice with everyone. But so grateful to be working through this material.  

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The neurobiology of safety- love it! Love being with where there is safety- conjuring and appreciating it. My plants....I feel at home with my plants and am feeling more about the specifics of my relationships with particular trees, plants and places in nature.

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For Darrell: “Once in a while, I get shocked into upper wakefulness, I turn a corner, see the ocean, and my heart tips over with happiness—I feel so free! Then I have the idea that, as well as beholding, can also beheld from yonder and am not a discrete object but incorporated with the rest, with universal sapphire, purplish blue. For what is this sea, this atmosphere, doing within the eight-inch diameter of your skull? (I say nothing of the sun and the galaxy which are also there.) At the center of the beholder there must be a space for the whole, and this nothing-space is not an empty nothing but a nothing reserved for everything.” —Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift

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Answering the questions from the integrative worksheet Week 1 supported me ti feel through some of the questions I had in trying to make space and understand the part of fear in this process. The feeling that came to me as I answered these questions were more of ease and less tightness and concern.

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Answering the questions from the integrative worksheet Week 1 supported me ti feel through some of the questions I had in trying to make space and understand the part of fear in this process. The feeling that came to me as I answered these questions were more of ease and less tightness and concern.

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I am starting to see how powerful I feel when I name my needs. Even if (especially when?) they aren't being met. I will be chiming in asynchronously each week and greatly appreciated the openness among the group in the recordings.

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I noticed how whenever we as a people come into a deep connection with something, whether it be frightening or peaceful, something occurs that signals something in us. And this signaling is immensely delightful. It is something we all yearn for. This discovery of a interconnectedness with something. Where there is no space or time or difference. Just one thing.

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How do you name an unnameable? These fleeting sensations moving so fast through the body. Words can be tricky to find, but the imagery and drawing was a useful tool I will carry forward. 

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How do you name an unnameable? These fleeting sensations moving so fast through the body. Words can be tricky to find, but the imagery and drawing was a useful tool I will carry forward. 

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It’s ok to do a doozy or a schmoozy when you’re guessing. It’s a gentle guess.

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It’s ok to do a doozy or a schmoozy when you’re guessing. It’s a gentle guess.

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feeling the fabric of our interconnectedness and shared humanity

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I have learned that we can see what we hear with shared space.

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One big takeaway for me is the importance of honoring my own energy to hold space for others.  I *love* hearing other people's stories about joy.  But I am recovering from an intense week - so I just didn't have the energy to give in shared space today. I'm bummed I couldn't hear the stories but I'm really proud of myself for honoring my needs.  It was a big a ha today!

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Growth in communion with others. To communicate and attune with others requires relation and care and love, and I hope to build so much love.

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I am learning to let things be. To say what I notice and feel- to let that be enough, to notice how that reverberates...

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Feeling grounded in my ability to describe how I'm feeling and also make connection or offerings to other folks to show care and resonance to their lived experience. :)

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I notice that my body opens around having feelings but does not open as much around having needs. This is interesting to me.

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My intention is to find more confidence and tools to create and build spaces where people can grow and love themselves more authentically, including myself.

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I feel warm joy in the self-connection with my needs. Being in this space of belonging, permission—feels good. Learning new ways of being with the truth of what's here for me, whatever that is, it's soft and opens me up to more.

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My intention is to learn and grow, deepening the ways in which I show up authentically.

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My intention is to learn and grow, deepening the ways in which I show up authentically.

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I look forward to flourishing and blossoming and continue to walk my life with integrity, authenticity, and love 

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I look forward to flourishing and blossoming and continue to walk my life with integrity, authenticity, and love 

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I am coming into our space with few expectations; I hope to learn, connect, and possibly find new ways of being in the world

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Continuing to work on remaining in a space of observation, clear of evaluation. 

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Continuing to work on remaining in a space of observation, clear of evaluation. 

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It is safe for me to be visible in my humanity.

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It is safe for me to be visible in my humanity.