[GoneGirl]

Your comments are aways so well written and so thoughtful, Clara.
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The trouble is that most of us are never given the tools as we grow up to be able to work effectively on our own emotional needs. For the most part, we all learn only the skills and tools that our parents have, and they usually have only what they learned from their parents, and so on. For many of us it requires some loving assistance to learn how to come to terms with ourselves, begin to listen for the real voice inside, and offer that person in turn the love, support and forgiveness to grow and blossom in a healthy way. It ain't easy, sister!
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Thank you, Samantha. You're so right about lacking the tools to shape our minds to better service our emotional needs. I do have to say that this forum and its many contributors, like you, Samantha, have been instrumental in reshaping the many distorted ways of thinking that I've harbored for many years. I guess that's why I hang around here so much, making myself a nuisance.

CK