Victoria Howard Rollings

Telling our story, finding the words to describe our situation, is how we begin. For this, we need a patient witness, privacy and confidence that we can speak our truth and have it heard. We find our own healing within us, by reflecting on and bringing into focus a lifetime of experience. The tools of mindfulness and awareness can bring gentleness to this process, cultivate our natural intuition, help us to integrate our far flung pieces, developing a larger view. Reflecting on one’s life comes naturally to us as we grow older, but our tendency to judge ourselves (and others) and rigid ways of thinking that no longer serve us tend to make the task painful and overwhelming. The tools of dialogue, mindfulness and reflection can serve to identify and soften family patterns, perhaps enliven what may have become dull. We have all been through so much in our lives – endured so much, accomplished so much.All of that can be seen from so man different angles and yield so much more information,