Emotional Intimacy Begins Within: My First Retreat Experience
The North Georgia Mountains cradled a group of 20 people who gathered for an Intensive Personal Growth weekend retreat. It was one of my first retreats and I felt uneasy. I was examining a lifetime of not being true to my self for fear that someone would not respect me. I realized that if I kept abandoning my self through my self-judgment that I could only expect more of the same from others. I was successful in business, and I looked good, but my body was stiff and hurt a lot. My breath was shallow. Deep down inside I was scared and insecure, but I hid it well. My self-image certainly did not include crying in public places.
Committed to being true to myself, I decided to break out of the “I have to please others to be liked” mindset. Read more