Arthur

“ I just wanted to share with you how much I appreciated the NVC weekend with you.   I left feeling full of tenderness for myself and other people and life in general.  I reconnected with life.  My heart opened. One specific thing I remember is, on the drive home, I had the urge to simply stop the car and get out and take in the fall air, the woods, the sound of the stream that runs by the road…I felt open to being nourished by life.  I didn’t actually do it (I didn’t stop the car), but the urge itself was in a way enough. So much of my time is spent just struggling to stay sane and not fall into a deep dark pit of unreality and despair and disconnection, which creates a kind of rigid barrier against the more tender sides of life…almost a kind of defense against life itself;  so that moment of feeling a peaceful settling into just being alive, and being open to being nourished by life, was very special.  I wish moments like that could last longer, but they have a lasting impact as a sign of hope that they are possible. So, thank you for providing the embodied modeling of compassion and empathy and care–a modeling which enabled me to assimilate a bit of it myself. ”