This is so real. I moved like this for a long time and am finally learning to do it differently, to hold myself or let myself be held by the land, the vast interdependent web of life.
You say that the issue is we never learned to do this for ourselves. I'm not sure. I think some of us were never adequately held as children, held long and well enough to learn to be held by life, and so we keep chasing it until finally, often after an exhausting series of intense, disastrous relationships, we begin to learn a different way.
That’s real! you’re not contradicting it, you’re completing it. Some people weren’t just “not taught” to hold themselves, they were never held long enough to internalize what that even feels like, so they keep chasing it as a reference point, not just a person. And if they stay with that long enough without collapsing back into the loop, it eventually turns inward.not into isolation, but into realizing that what they were seeking was never meant to live in someone else permanently.
Hi Justin- I’ve recently found your pages and have been really amazed and so intrigued by the way you think and what you have to say about our minds. I’m a psychoanalyst from Philadelphia and I feel there would be a ready audience for your writing and ideas in psychoanalysis. I’m also so interested to know how you got to where you are in your thinking and where and with who you engage intellectually. Do you have more writing that you’ve done?
This is so real. I moved like this for a long time and am finally learning to do it differently, to hold myself or let myself be held by the land, the vast interdependent web of life.
You say that the issue is we never learned to do this for ourselves. I'm not sure. I think some of us were never adequately held as children, held long and well enough to learn to be held by life, and so we keep chasing it until finally, often after an exhausting series of intense, disastrous relationships, we begin to learn a different way.
That’s real! you’re not contradicting it, you’re completing it. Some people weren’t just “not taught” to hold themselves, they were never held long enough to internalize what that even feels like, so they keep chasing it as a reference point, not just a person. And if they stay with that long enough without collapsing back into the loop, it eventually turns inward.not into isolation, but into realizing that what they were seeking was never meant to live in someone else permanently.
Maybe stop the hypnosis and admit you've sent a lot of people in your life crazy.
Hi Justin- I’ve recently found your pages and have been really amazed and so intrigued by the way you think and what you have to say about our minds. I’m a psychoanalyst from Philadelphia and I feel there would be a ready audience for your writing and ideas in psychoanalysis. I’m also so interested to know how you got to where you are in your thinking and where and with who you engage intellectually. Do you have more writing that you’ve done?