Posted by zenhussy on December 16, 2003, at 21:42:55
Well now...I've gone and dropped a bomb tonight in my group. Am almost certain I will not continue beyond the last metting of this calendar year. I still pay through the end of the sessions sometime next year whether or not I attend so no financial savings immediately. Long run sure...I'll be able to allocate this money elsewhere and I'll have the time back that this group currently takes.
Here's the oddness, to me anyway:
I wasn't aware of the impact I had/have on others. I've been through group changes through the past fourteen months and dealt with people leaving suddenly due to 'good circumstances'. Somehow I sensed that this wasn't viewed as a good enough circumstance.
I've thought about this for some time but tonight just knew I had to say something and make a change to some other type of therapeutic modality to keep this stuff moving along.
Feedback included hurt feelings, anger, upset, tears, shock. I was rather surprised by all of it.
I'm not uncaring or cold but I truly do not have a sense of the impact I have on others.
Where did that come from? (rhetorical as I'm fairly sure I'm know where it may have begun)
Golly individual therapy tomorrow is gonna be a blast! Ugh.
zenhussy----moving on to other things besides a closed group for survivors
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