Happy Holidays!

[Dr. Richard Grossman]

Happy Holidays!!!!  

Wishing everyone a year of peace, health, and loving attachments!

As always,

Richard

[WRITE]

Hi Richard, you too.

~W

[Gaining Strength]

I love that phrase "loving attachments."  Glad to have it on my wish list.

Last year I didn't even know to wish for a place like "voicelessness" but
I got it anyway and it changed my llife.  Been working in therapy for almost
20 years and Voicelessness came along at the right time to push me further
than I've ever been before.

I can't be more thankful and now as this year rolls to an end I have real hope
for a better future at long, long last. 

Thanks Dr. Grossman again and again.

[reallyME]

Thank you, Dr G!  may we have another year of wondrous discovery and healing with each other on this fine board!

ReallyME

[Portia]

Very best wishes to you and yours Dr G and to everyone on this here wonderful board

with much love and deep thanks.

Peace

[Hopalong]

Richard...
I have never felt so free to talk SO much and have never felt heard SO well.
Thank you for the extraordinary, brilliant gift of this board.

And here's my holiday gift to everybody!    (It's worth it...)

 http://www.glumbert.com/media/flash/player.swf?file=helsinkichoir&autostart=true&fs=true

love all around,
Hops

[Gaining Strength]

CB123 - I thought about you and your family before I but mine son to sleep last night and I wondered how your day had been.  As I read your post I was so glad to so your son's time home from the hospital was good and so very surprised and sorry to hear that the others were so sad.  I have thought about you and your family often during these holidays and it struck me as odd that I never thought about their sadness. 

I was much older when my father left and though he was a terrible N I woshipped him but after he left I was glad that the unbearable tension went with him but I grieved for the way "family" should be, unable to understand, even as a young adult, that our family had never been the way I thought it had.  I was grieving something that existed only in my delusions but I grieved none-the-less.

My thoughts are with you all as these holidays wind down.  I hope your children will begin to find the peace they deserve.

much love, GS

[Brigid]

Dear Dr. G,
I wish for you a year of peace and happiness as well and send many thanks for forming this place which has helped so much in my healing process.

This Christmas was so beautiful with my b/f and I sharing Christmas dinner with our 6 children, who were all together for the first time.  Having the two of us sit at either end of the dining room table, with those 6 wonderful kids between us laughing and having a great time, was the best gift I could have ever received.  That is my idea of the perfect loving attachment.

God bless,

Brigid

[Jade]

To Dr. Grossman:
Thank you for maintaining this message board. I also very much appreciate your excellent essays. Their warm, sympathetic emotional tone reminds me of the work of Alice Miller. They contain a sense of simplicity and mercy. I felt supported and hopeful just through reading them.

To CB123:

I hadnt anticipated that they wouldnt be through grieving and that the day would be very difficult for them.

But it sounds like you saw, acknowledged and supported their feelings, which means you broke the dysfunctional pattern. Bravo!

To Gaining Strength:

I grieved for the way "family" should be ...

But you have a vision of something better and you are working to create that. Bravo!

To All:
Thanks for being supportive when I described my financial/emotional struggles with the holiday. It went pretty well with my mom, she fixed a nice meal and we played Scrabble afterward. (There was no church supper after all.) My brother unexpectedly sent me a $100 gift certificate for the health food store, so today I stocked up on fancy, good-quality groceries. And my mom gave me a $50 gift certificate to the local discount outlet, so I can get new gloves, socks, hat, etc. or possibly waterproof boots. Also, tomorrow I have a few hours of freelance clerical work which may earn me the remainder of this month's rent. I have next month's check for the full amount of rent, ready to hand over on Jan. 3.
 
Hanging in there!

[CB123]

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[gratitude28]

Love and warm wishes to you and your family, Dr. Grossman.

Happiness and growth to the family you have created for me with this board.

(((((((((((((((((all))))))))))))))))))

Much love,
Beth

[mum]

Thank you. Dr. Grossman, for the warm wishes...and to you as well!

Thanks for all you do. This place is a remarkable gathering of souls....such a gift!
Mum