To Speak The Words You Speak

It’s important to me that I don’t rephrase or sugarcoat what a participant tells me in a session.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
When a participant shared with me ‘I bear all the crap’, I made sure I spoke back those exact words loud enough for him to hear. It wasn’t ‘I carry the load’ or ‘I’m feeling burdened.’

No, listen. – I.Bear.All.The.Crap.

As soon as I attempt to change your words, to soften your words, to make them more ‘suitable’, I lose sight of you. I give the impression ‘you shouldn’t feel what you’re feeling’, or ‘you don’t know the extent of what you’re feeling’. Or ‘I can’t handle how you’re feeling.’⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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My promise is to speak the words you speak and make you hear that I hear you. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
We will taste these words, let them tongue meaning and find new language in our presence.⠀⠀