Hello
...... just come home from an evening with Steve and Gill - curry - and a good one.
Better still - the flow of catch up conversation.
Loveit .............................
The Sheilas left us earlier this afternoon.
Zig started to relax again.
He didn't cope with guests staying so long - and he may not remember that they are family !!
Years ago::
All the four of us travelled to Birmingham some seven years ago to pick him up as a little kitten.
This week-end::
He is showered with kisses as soon as the Sheilas enter Wilson Mansions.
Before that - the words always out of their mouths is::
"I am starving"
So we had a great time hanging out and meeting the needs of these starving children.
The Sheilas were brought up for all their lives, living in residential communities.
These included::
An Approved School for teenage young offenders in Cheshire.
A Hells Angels Club.
A YMCA Hostel and community Centre in town centre St Helens.
An East London/Inner city residential community centre.
A YMCA 150 bed hostel and community/activity centre.
I read something which triggered my thoughts on Caroline's blog regarding::
"emotion coaching parents"
The full quote says "the degree to which a child’s family regularly seeks and expresses positive experiences and emotions in the face of negative events might prove particularly important early in development, when children begin to solidify their strategies for distress regulation"
And that links to the need of having "emotion coaching parents".
Joan and me have always journeyed into understanding of our emotional life. Me coming from an emotionally starved life, I saw it as vital for growth alongside the spiritual journey we had signed up to.
Faith was important so - that means a journey into becoming fully alive.
Whole.
What a journey.
I don't think that the Sheilas have had a comfortable upbringing. Yet they have done so fantastic in terms of being beautiful humans.
They have grown with us and I know they have learned so much alongside us.
(Growth does not reside in a place called comfortable)
May you know that you are beautiful in your emotional and spiritual journey.
It is good to hold hands with each other as we journey this way - forever .......
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