I have STILL not figured out how to get comments viewed on the main page (though you can see it on each individual article page when you click on the article title), despite re-doing the layout to include a comments field. Any suggestions are welcomed.
In the meantime, a fellow shamanic practitioner posted this great article on victimhood by Lynne Forrest, who goes much further in depth on this topic.
As practitioners, it's really important to root out all the ways we play Victim, Rescuer or Persecutor--or at least stay aware of our own tendencies so we know when we've started down that slippery-slope and catch ourselves. Being practitioners, it's all too easy to (consciously or not) start as a Rescuer and feel trapped in an unhealthy series of roles with our client. We all feel when this happens: we feel a dip in our energies and suddenly don't want to work with a client anymore (even if we don't show it). It's a good vulnerability to plug up.
And if all that's not enough, it makes us better practitioners because we can recognize when our clients start making the rounds of this diabolical triangle. Being firmly rooted in our own understandings (and having resolved, or at least being aware of, our own tendencies), we can help them pull out (which may mean sending them to therapy) of it instead of tagging along and also getting caught in this disempowering merry-go-round.
In the meantime, a fellow shamanic practitioner posted this great article on victimhood by Lynne Forrest, who goes much further in depth on this topic.
As practitioners, it's really important to root out all the ways we play Victim, Rescuer or Persecutor--or at least stay aware of our own tendencies so we know when we've started down that slippery-slope and catch ourselves. Being practitioners, it's all too easy to (consciously or not) start as a Rescuer and feel trapped in an unhealthy series of roles with our client. We all feel when this happens: we feel a dip in our energies and suddenly don't want to work with a client anymore (even if we don't show it). It's a good vulnerability to plug up.
And if all that's not enough, it makes us better practitioners because we can recognize when our clients start making the rounds of this diabolical triangle. Being firmly rooted in our own understandings (and having resolved, or at least being aware of, our own tendencies), we can help them pull out (which may mean sending them to therapy) of it instead of tagging along and also getting caught in this disempowering merry-go-round.
