> >> scared. lonely. those are words.
>
> >those are powerful words. those are painful words. regrets
>
> Those are stuck words. Means you have to take a risk and try something
> outside of the same old same old to change them.
Oy. That's the rub, isn't it....
Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>> oooo, cool we want a stuffed dragon
>>> I have a spare one but I'm not sure it would mail well *grin* It
>>> is about the size of a 4 year old and is bright yellow and blue. I
>>> am trying to picture dragging it into the UPS office and asking them
>>> if they could box it up...
>>>
>> :)
>>
>> that's a big dragon
>
> Yep. Fritz went through a very intense period of NEEDING stuffed
> animals. He still needs them for the most part, but it is much more
> subtle. He found the stuffed dragon at a science fiction convention
> during that phase and then dragged it around with us for the rest of
> the weekend. Slept on it, sat on it, hugged it, wrestled with it.
>
> It was needed.
>
is ok to need things like that?
Yes, fritz is an amazing fantastic wonderful kid and if he needs
a stuffed animal... then that is exactly what he needs and it is not
a problem. Especially cause he himself has wised up and knows that
dragging a 3 foot neon yellow/blue dragon around is a tad bit
inconvenient and he now settles on small stuff that can be stuffed
into a back pack :)
When we go on vacation he has three stuffed animals we lock in the
fire safe or take with us. They are _that_ important. This is also
very ok.
Rainbow Colors (Jill)
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The colors blend, the edges soften. Swirling and mixing
we are becoming white light.
ji...@tuells.org
seems like maybe needing things is a problem
or being needy is a problem
is that different?
Only when the body was young. Not any more. Now, being needy and
needing things is ok. How you go about _getting_ those things
might be a problem, or might not be a problem. Had fritz decided to
continue needing to drag that dragon around we might have had a
problem, for example.
However, if you are anything like us, when the body was little any
sort of need or neediness was immediately pounced on as a weakness
and attacked to be exploited. In that case showing neediness would
have resulted in something bad happening. Now is not then.
for me it was the opposite -- shows of independence got me in trouble
and they were forever forcing me to stay in that needy pathetic state.
to try to hide emotions was sui. - it meant i "didn't love her" (mom)
-- they made me act vulnerable. they made me share. silence wasn't
allowed.
> don't want to have needs
> want to make them just go away
> know we aren't being reasonable
> isn't ok. can't believe it's ok
> sorry
understand
recently got t shirt
says: do not want!
puts it outside
adds humor
dunno how much it helps tho
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> for me it was the opposite -- shows of independence got me in trouble
> and they were forever forcing me to stay in that needy pathetic
> state. to try to hide emotions was sui. - it meant i "didn't love
> her" (mom) -- they made me act vulnerable. they made me share.
> silence wasn't allowed.
we were guilted for silence but did it anyway. no words. words too
shameful. nothing nothing nothing much safer.