For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them. Matthew 18:20
Many of us are not happy about beginning this process of change and growth from co-dependent issues formed from our experience of our family of origin. We may find things wrong with the people and the Front Room. We may not understand what we are doing there.
- Some come angrily.
- Some come in fear, confusion, or desperation.
- Some of us come quietly, because of a profound awareness of a hole in the soul.
- Some of us come to help another person or to deal with the impact another’s problem has had on our lives.
- Some of us come because someone left us, or because someone in our lives is drinking, gambling, using drugs, or having affairs
Most of us come because we have nowhere else to go.
Initially, some of us are furious about having to address our own issues when someone else has the problem.
That’s okay. That’s normal.
Stay open.
Cultivate honesty and willingness to try.
At last, you are no longer alone.
At last, you have somewhere to go where you are safe.
By all means, feel any resistance, feel the irritation.
But by any means necessary, come.
Jessica
Many of us are not happy about beginning this process of change and growth from co-dependent issues formed from our experience of our family of origin. We may find things wrong with the people and the Front Room. We may not understand what we are doing there.
- Some come angrily.
- Some come in fear, confusion, or desperation.
- Some of us come quietly, because of a profound awareness of a hole in the soul.
- Some of us come to help another person or to deal with the impact another’s problem has had on our lives.
- Some of us come because someone left us, or because someone in our lives is drinking, gambling, using drugs, or having affairs
Most of us come because we have nowhere else to go.
Initially, some of us are furious about having to address our own issues when someone else has the problem.
That’s okay. That’s normal.
Stay open.
Cultivate honesty and willingness to try.
At last, you are no longer alone.
At last, you have somewhere to go where you are safe.
By all means, feel any resistance, feel the irritation.
But by any means necessary, come.
Jessica