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Thank you, rroym. That is really good. That is the atmosphere I'd love to see here. You put it into words so much better than I can.

You make a LOT of sense.

Thanks again.

Well, I think I am probably guilty of being *too* self-aware...

A curse and blessing- I feel very intensely and seem to have insight into emotional issues that a lot of people don't. Which is probably good, considering what my family is facing!

But in reality, I attribute much of my own healing process to the large amounts of time I spent in partial-hospitalization when I was going through a severe post-partum depression 10 years ago. Let's just say, I became the Poster Child for that particular program, I was there 3 times in one year for 6-10 weeks at a time. HA! But it was truly life-giving and life-changing for me. I learned so much about emotions, thinking, guilt, myself and how I thought and more. It really did truly save my physcial and emotional life. I will always be thankful for that program and the acceptance I found there- much as you describe, Rob, in your post about being allowed to be heard, no matter what you said. It is very difficult to find such an environment, as you all know.

And even though, as you said, this isn't a group therapy here, I still want the forum to be about people being heard. I know that is what Kari and the Fanda Eagles want it to be about as well. So again- thanks for being willing to post what you did.