Find A Time When You Needed Someone To Be There For You?
It could be your mother. Or your father. Or your partner. Was it at the end of a long day? Was it when you were feeling emotional? Was it while you were trying something new? Where was it that you needed someone to be there for you?
I remember in college, my parents had divorced several years before, and my family was not even living in the same town anymore where I grew up. There was no home as I had remembered it. Which was fine at first. But when I went through my first emotional crisis in my second year of college, I thought I need my family to be there for me. I felt like I didn’t have a home to go back to. And I needed it.
In this session of Slow-Cook Inquiry, I’m going to look at this situation when I was in college. And I’m going to question if it was really true that I needed them to be there for me.
Want To Join Me?
Let’s do inquiry together. We learn so much from each other when we do.
What is a situation for you where you thought, “I need them to be there for me,” and they were not there for you? This session starts on Monday, May 21, 2012 in the comments below. Registration is required.
Here’s How It Works
1.Inquiry Circle.
2. You will get an email with the next step of inquiry every day (five days a week).
3. You click on the link in the email to come back here to the blog.
4. You post your answers to the question on the blog.
5. You read and get inspiration from what others have posted.
6. This will continue until we have thoroughly worked the stressful concept. Then we’ll start with a new concept for the next week.
7. Feel free to use an initial or a pseudonym if you prefer to be anonymous.
This Week’s Concept
This week we will be questioning the stressful thought, “I need them to be there for me.”
We’ll all do The Work on this concept together in the comment section below.
Here Is This Week’s Schedule
Monday, May 21, 2012: Describe a situation in one sentence where you had the thought, “I need them to be there for me,” and they weren’t there for you. And answer 1. “Is it true?” and 2. “Can you absolutely know it’s true?”
Tuesday, May 22, 2012: “How do you react when you believe that you need them to be there for you?”
Wednesday, May 23, 2012: “Who would you be without that thought that you need them to be there for you?”
Thursday, May 24, 2012: First Turnaround: “I need me to be there for me.”
Friday, May 25, 2012: Second Turnaround: “I need me to be there for them.”
Monday, May 28, 2012: Third Turnaround: “I don’t need them to be there for me.”
Start Inquiry Circle here.
