I wrote yesterday about a horrid feeling of my heart "drying out" and closing.  Although it seemed hard to do without possibly upsetting other people badly, I was very clear that I would share what was going on in me.  These kinds of groups need honesty...

Something quite deep happened to me, in me, during the group yesterday.  Third full day of the group and powerful, deep things were happening in and between a whole series of us.  Two couples have contacted particular distress.  No doubt many, maybe most, others have been moved strongly in various ways.  When there are powerful, potentially life-changing crises going on, one would need a heart...

Yesterday was a fairly classic first full day of one of these four day peer groups that I've been involved with for so long.  Like a musical form ... a concerto or something ... there are usual stages to the group, phases which it typically moves through.  ...