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Strange event today at Groveland.\u00a0 An old therapist of mine showed up to hear me preach.\u00a0 An ex-Roman Catholic priest, he came into my life while I was still reeling from a barrage of self-inflicted wounds.\u00a0 His therapeutic approach was problem-focused, that is, we always discussed what was the matter with me.\u00a0 In therapy with him I learned that this approach didn’t function well overall for me.\u00a0 He was a good listener and empathetic, too.\u00a0 It was, though, over against that school of psychological thought that I sought out a Jungian and found John Desteian.<\/p>\n
On thinking about it further I wondered what it would be like to have an event where all my old therapists showed up.\u00a0 If I added in ex-wives, I could fill a small lecture hall.\u00a0 What might we discuss? The points I refused to acknowledge.\u00a0 The ground I could have covered more quickly if I’d only listened.\u00a0 Or, might we discuss the essential fragility of the human condition, its inevitable pressures on our small selves.\u00a0 We might have a laugh at the man I was and perhaps, I hope, drink a cup of tea to the man I have become.<\/p>\n
Still doubting.\u00a0 Still vulnerable.\u00a0 Still fragile.\u00a0 Yes, but still here, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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