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Healing Stress

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We all need to return to a more stable form of our self, with a stable interior referent. For example, over the summer, a schoolteacher might have a chance to spend time alone, enjoying them self by reading, walking through the woods and relaxing….. But returning to school in the fall and over the school year, by  May or June, he or she, hardly recognizes them self again ! The healing from the previous summer is gone! Many teachers feel as if their feet are held to the fire for nine long months! A competent, intelligent, but suffering person, (no matter what their job), can hardly wait to have time to be alone to find them self once again! However, each time they get back to feeling them self again, they aren’t them self anymore, because they did not reach the level of a stabilized referent. When they did take time off to recover, they did either did not have enough time or do it strongly enough to heal the stress completely. Not feeling very happy, they instea...