Including Yourself

Including Yourself

A woman in her fifties suffers severe fatigue, joint pains and sleep disorders. She describes herself as being disillusioned and embittered by life and often feeling unable to make positive changes.

She spent most of her life taking care of her family, raising children, looking after her husband. By following a role model dictated by her logical mind, she had found fulfillment as housewife and mother, however through denial of her own heart and self.

Although love giving and compassionate, she had through all those years of self-denial, systematically behaved to erase and to rebut every trace of her individuality. The loving and caring mother forewent taking care of herself, by replacing her husband’s and children’s individual fulfillment as being of her own.

She then becomes disillusioned and embittered as the family does not recognize enough her efforts and her loved ones do not behave as she has expected and dreamt of. This free behavior of her family members gets her desperate, for she had projected her self fulfillment in them. She starts to develop a negative view of life, often thinking that something bad might occur to her family members.

Her emotional heart complains by causing pains all over her body and thus becoming the center of attention of the family. This is the way her heart had found to recover her individuality from the family, by getting back all the loving and caring she had devoted to them.

(continues on Indulging Your Heart)