These healing weekends, for adoptees and mothers who lost children to adoption, are a carefully developed progression of exercises which lead people to feel safe, enhance visualization techniques leading to inner child work, exploring the ability to experience the feelings that are so scary, and combining these exercises to do some deep healing and learning ways to help themselves come to inner peace, contentment, and freedom to live authentic lives. |
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Wait
List available for all weekends
*** Reunited pairs are welcome
at all weekends.
Location:
Congers,
NY (1/2 hour north of
NYC) unless otherwise noted.
"... as we let our own light shine, we
unconsciously give other people permission to do
the same. As are liberated from our own fear
our own presence automatically liberates others."
- Nelson Mandela
"There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose." Elbert Hubbard
"The bond
between a mother and her child is naturally
sacred. It is physical, psychological and
spiritual. It is very resilient and very
flexible. It can stretch very far -
naturally. Any artificial or violent
injury to this "stretch" constitutes a
serious psychic trauma to both mother and
child - for all eternity. This means that
children need their mothers and mothers need
their children - whether or not a mother
is married or unmarried."- Mothers On Trial, The
Battle For Children and Custody, by Phyllis
Chesler, copyright 1986, 1987
"You will not grow if you sit
in a beautiful flower garden,
but you will grow if you are
sick, in pain, experience
losses and if you do not put
your head in the sand, but
take the pain and learn to
accept it, not as a curse or
punishment but as a gift to
you with a very, very specific
purpose." - Elisabeth
Kubler-Ross
"Only eyes
washed by tears can see clearly" - Louis Mann
"There are
ex-husbands and ex-wives but there are no
ex-moms, ex-dads or ex-children" - Anon
"The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother" - Anna Freud (and the loss of a child) - JS
"Adoption
Loss is the only trauma in the world where the
victims are expected by the whole of society to
be grateful" -
The Reverend Keith C. Griffith, MBE