I’ve just spent the past week at our Regional NVC Gathering. It was such a profound experience that I feel so completely out of place sitting here at my desk at work today. I was so sad to leave yesterday because I so enjoyed the connections I made and also the freedom of being myself and being accepted. I was so afraid of not being able to keep those needs met in my daily life.
Ah… now there is an email from my friend I met at the gathering about today being the 2008 solar wave celebration. I’m thankful to have connection with my NVC friend.
Now I’m crying with a smile on my face as I view the images depicting the 2008 Gaia celebration. I feel so warm and loved by everyone from the Gathering even though I’m sitting in my pretty suit at work. I’m not afraid now… I trust now that I can take the connections I met at The Gathering into my mainstream life. I’m so glad! This will help me move away from what feels so foreign to me now and plan for my new beginning of my life with true connection with self, earth and all sentient beings. Now I can celebrate.
It feels like I’ve been away for a month. It’s only been 6 days…
I can also celebrate because I was finally able to connect deeply with my best friend CC who has joined the navy and leaving today. I had thought that I would struggle connecting deeply with anyone in my ‘normal’ life outside the nvc community and gathering, however last night when sitting with my friend with a very big, full and open heart we had a great connecting conversation. Mostly I just listened and reflected back what I heard she was feeling and needing. Then I asked her how she felt afterwards and I could see her whole body had relaxed. She smiled and said, ‘thank you – that’s exactly what i needed!’. I was also celebrating being able to give her something precious – my empathy. 
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