In order to be whole in our Authentic Being, we have to boldly reclaim all of these essential parts of ourselves. By affirmatively engaging and authentically being in the company of other like-minded wimmin, we will come to readily identify and co-create womin-affirmative joy-filled, peaceful, imaginative and fulfilling lives.

With other equally interested and invested wimmin, we can relearn healthier ways to nurture and love ourselves, as well as others, while gaining a greater holistic appreciation of all wimmin.

By working together with other wimmin in mindfully proactive wimmin's groups, we gain essential transpersonal knowledge of an array of ways to mindfully re-connect to our Authentic Self, to our intuitive insight; to feel more self-confident, more self-loving, self-appreciative and more fully self-contented.

And our wimmin-affirmative groups can also teach us how to overcome self-induced fear, self-judgment and self-loathing, through the use of mindfulness and spiritual psychology techniques.

We come to recognize how many wimmin are mindlessly enticed and seduced by today's "you're not________enough - so fix yourself" social view into believing that our worth depends upon how we look and how materially productive we are. And how it is, that our unexamined lives are generally only about the external world of "doing" and seldom about "being".

And being so, how we can find ourselves speeding about in "I'm being busy doing something important - so I'm important" circles, never really ever pausing long enough to engage the love and fulfillment we're busy hoping to find.

We come to see that all the while, our Authentic Self lags there, waiting for this non-Self-affirming recycling of "desperate need" to [somehow] come to an end.

If we're lucky, we become [often painfully] aware that our Authentic Voice has been silenced by all the external or internal social and self admonitions that we are never "good enough"; and that our Authentic Self can only be put aside, forgotten and ignored for so long . . . until we also begin to experience direct symptoms of such prolonged "intra-psychic disconnect", in a variety of aspects and areas of our lives.

The good news is that as we learn how to mindfully slow down our lives and learn to just "BE" in the present moment with our Authentic Selves; as we make time to listen to our heart, our soul and our inner-guidance; as we make the time to uncover, acknowledge and mindfully process our feelings; and as we make nurturing and loving ourselves a daily [& sacred] way of life, then we (re)discover who we really truly are . . . we come to enjoy a deeper, intrinsic and intra-psychically-based peace of mind and self-satisfaction, which we mindfully call SistahPeaceful WellBalance.

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In the company of other mindful wimmin, we can learn how to more authentically love ourselves. And by doing so, we can also find the lasting fulfillment which comes with maintaining the sort of SistahPeaceful WellBalance that we'd been [unsuccessfully] looking for in our unfulfilled [and unmanageable] relationships with substances, other people, shopping, food, media, our bodies, over-partying, our careers, etc.

We can come to recognize that "popular" western [American] culture is basically spiritually and somatically dysfunctional and often unsafe and toxic for wimmin. And how it is that, just by being born here, as wimmin, we can often become "sick".

We come to learn how it is that many wimmin who are naive, sensitive, creative and intuitive are often pre-disposed to "picking up" all kinds of life "issues" and illnesses.

We discover that in order to be intra-psyically healthy, we must question, throw off and escape from the  gravitational pull of the [misogynistically construed] reality we were born into, to find and affirm our true selves, our true voices, and re-create life on our own terms.

We learn to bravely befriend the unconventional [womin-affirmative] wisdom within. We learn to strengthen our emotional and spiritual "immune system" by learning how to love, honor and nurture ourselves as wimmin.

 

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us . . .

. . . As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." ~ Marianne Williamson

 

Wimmin's therapy and personal growth groups can be profound and powerful experiences. They can help wimmin to overcome personal difficulties which prevent us from achieving any real sense of satisfaction and fulfillment in our lives. They can help with feelings of alienation and isolation, and a hopeless sense that no one else feels the way we do.

Wimmin's groups can provide a supportive space where we can give and receive feedback with group members working on similar issues. In the process, we learn about our self by reflecting on interactions taking place between others and our selves.

Group work with other proactive wimmin can have advantages over individual therapy in distinct ways. In many ways such groups become a "learning laboratory" where we have the opportunity to experiment with new ways of communicating in the "here & now" and as an effective way to meaningfully problem solve.

While all groups go through similar stages, each group has its own unique culture; wimmin engaging in a womin-affirmative group process can individually benefit from the relationships built with each other, and with the group as a whole. Issues, emotions and new awareness will often come up in group that don't come up in individual therapy.

Learning to authentically listen to ourselves and other wimmin is also a valuable tool gained from proactive involvement in groups. The fact is that everyone in a group has something to contribute, so feedback (not advice giving) from other group members can be a valuable tool in sorting out difficult and complex problems.

Over time, wimmin engaging together in proactive group process become a precious resource for each other, providing a support network for specific problems or challenges. In such groups, we are encouraged to talk with each other in a spontaneous and honest fashion.

As well, the psychotherapist/ counselor, who provides educational and productive examination of the issues or concerns affecting the individuals and the group, often guides the discussion in order to maintain a safe arena for all.

Wimmin's groups also provide a forum to explore our feelings about the others in the group in a safe setting, and allows us room to think about how these feelings are related to one's life outside the group. The group process has often been compared to being part of a family, where group participants tend to take on the roles that they had in their own families when growing up.

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" . . . The Truth that sets us free is often the one we don't want to hear . . ." ~ Unknown

 

Research shows that we will see and experience rivalry, hostility, envy, anger as well as support, bonding, cohesiveness, concern and helpfulness, all happening over a course of time in a "good" group.

One essential difference, however, is that having a skilled therapist/ counselor there to look out for, and point out such problems while assisting the group to maintain a sense of safety for everyone while we [individually and as group] learn to proactively navigate through the "stuck places".

Moreover, in proactive wimmin's groups each of us is recognized as being on our own journey and therefore sets our own participation pace.

Through the course of group process, we each have the opportunity to mutually benefit from each others' experience, wisdom, and diverse resources.

And as our [individual and group] trust levels naturally build, wimmin's groups can create a productive climate of mutuality, honesty, acceptance and diverse understanding which can be difficult to find elsewhere.

 

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"Is group therapy for every womin?" "What's the process of joining?" 

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