Giving Back
After my divorce, I initiated a divorce recovery program at my church because I thought we (read "I") needed one. That first fall session drew over 100 people; our community was thirsty for someplace to heal from the death of a marriage.
The next spring we held it again and trained some of the participants from the fall session to help facilitate the small groups. Each seminar more singles returned to facilitate small groups for the next wave of participants.
For 15 years Starting Over Single reached out to our community every spring and fall, and what we gradually realized was that each season reflected the growth and healing that had occurred the past six months. Giving back became not only a reflection of our healing, but instrumental in our healing. I thought I was giving back to help others but discovered that giving back was healing me.
On the days when we can do nothing to help ourselves, the only thing to do is help someone else.
Who can you reach out to today?
posted by Dee Bailey @ 9:39 PM
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Hi Dee,
How interesting to see your post on the co-active network today on the future self exercise which lead me here. I coach women through a feeling of loss that may come from divorce, death, loss of purpose.
My journey started 3 years ago with the transitions of both parents within 2 months. 3 months later my now ex husband left and suffered the loss of my marriage.
Counseling was a start to deal with the intense feeling that everything I knew to be true about who I was had been pulled out from under my feet. Then I attended a retreat and discovered coaching.
Then & there I knew that I too wanted to coach others to know that they have everything within them now to understand, to grow, and to find right and happy dirction for their lives.
I work with a Divorce Support group online and have personally used Dr. Bruce Fisher's book, Rebuilding When Your Relationship Ends. Your Starting Over Single groups sound much like the seminars the Fisher group offers.
I'd love to talk with you about how you started you group and what materials you used as I am interested in doing something similar where I live in Virginia.
Jude Eastman ~ Life & Soul Coach
http://stirringthespiritwithin.blogspot.com/
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