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Karin Sprecher's avatar

Sweet & touching

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Peggy Matthews-Nilsen's avatar

Aviva ~ Thank you so much for your post. The words that spoke to me, "there is no real seeing, without also being seen" were just what I needed to hear. Earlier in the day, a young woman in one of my groups, said she was not sharing her real feelings with her mother, believing that her mother's feelings would be hurt if she did. This reminded me of when my daughter was a teen, she had believed the same. The difference was, one day my daughter took the risk to share her real feelings with me - letting me "see" her, and my response was not what she had expected. If my daughter had not found the courage to let me "see" her, she would not have been able to "see" me either. What a loss that would've been for us as mother and daughter! We must all allow ourselves to be seen and known, if we are to truly see and know others.

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