Thread #8 - It's time.

[25yearsmlc]

lol... 25, you don't seem that excited for navy... maybe it's just me...

of course it's just you!!

Just to top up what 25 said about keeping in touch with everyone, it's a really good thing. When I first attended a similar seminar back in '96ish, we didn't really have that available to us. I found that eventually people go their own ways, but that bond we make with our co-students goes on forever...

and...

IDK about EE, but the courses I've been on allow re-audits OR allow one to staff (for free, except travel, room and board, of course)... THAT is also an awesome experience... and you get to re-do some of the work which helps re-enforce...

2 things--

first, I cannot overemphasize what KD's saying about follow up.

True, as you can attest, a long intense weekend like no other in your life CAN change the course of your life,

but unless you have people around you in your life who'll support you to keep you on your new path, to help you stay on track

(as you also begin to weed out those who don't support you and or who derail you from your new path)

then you may revert to the worn, known path that you want OFF of and the changes in course, will fade...

Today W/online support and the number of EE related support groups (all free) all I can say is echoing KDs' comments--

keep in touch w/those connections. They will always matter but like all r's they take some nourishment. You may have to reach out but hey, that's LIFE!

Second, as you probably know by now, EE does offer you the chance to return and revisit your issues or help others to go through their own process and there's no charge for it & free community housing is available too.

I can't speak for other programs or workshops but I've been to a few others (and I'll go to KDs if he'll go to mine!!!)

but the one variable that he & I have noted with some other workshops, and that bothers me is when a speaker I barely know, or a group, keeps asking for money just a bit too often. (Off the top of my head, I don't recall ever hearing it discussed or asked for at EE, in my 2 decades of attending it...)

ANYHOW-

The folks you met over the weekend and connected with, CARE. We care.

In the rough times ahead - you'll need to remember that...the way past the pain is through it, but remember the beautiful things you learned and saw this weekend too.

Remember the glimpses you got of the good things in your future. It's Not all going to be dark; the hard days/nights will pass.

It's my sincere hope

that you KNOW this. And that you are NOT ALONE...

Stay in touch, with us and with them...

and take good loving care of yourself. It's your job!