Latter Day Struggles

I love this podcast so much, I backed up to episode 1 and am listening to them in order. I’ve been listening everyday for the past month. I feel that my spiritual health and strength is increasing due in large part to the thoughts and principles I’m hearing and then processing, and incorporating into my life.

I stumbled over one of Valerie’s classes through another therapist, and I was hooked. So many of the things Valerie said in that class, spoke to my soul. Somewhere during that class, I heard she had a podcast and I knew I needed to find it. I have been binging ever since! Thank you to the Hamaker’s for the work they do and being so inclusive. Thank you for putting words to our feelings that we don’t know how to explain. We are forever grateful!

Fantastic episode!! However, I still think the best way to protest the hypernormality of systemic abuse, whether it’s CSA, financial, gender discrimination, racism, etc. is to LEAVE and submit a letter of resignation!

Do you really have to mention “Steve” with his white hair and his being the “Grandpa” of the group? On what day in all of our short lives are we suddenly part of the “older crowd” that you’re amazed are capable of thinking in a way that you consider “amazingly young-thinking”? In the overall scheme of things, we’re all very close to the same age. Yes, I suddenly find myself, a mother of six, a 74-year-old woman whose children are all grown and I’m eligible for Medicare and social security. So what? That has nothing to do with what I can accept or what I worry about. YOU HAVE AN AGEISM PROBLEM which I find to be a tiresome and ugly prejudice. You seem to think of yourself as young and hip, and anyone with wrinkles and grandchildren “old” and incapable of accepting the things to which you are so open. You couldn’t be more wrong. I feel that your bending over backwards to show this sickening so-called “acceptance” of someone who has lived a few more decades than you (which you appear to believe to be a demonstration of how cool and accepting you are), shows that it is really YOU who are narrow-minded and unrecognizing of how alike we humans really all are. Grow up. I would give you zero stars if I could.