UnStress With The Gang!
© Julie J. Murelle
Sharing in groups is an important aspect of many people's healing process. You hear other people's tales and hopefully can learn things to help you out. You may share your experience, and help someone else out as well. (Helping someone through something that you know was horrible, with your words and advice, really makes you and the other person feel good.)
Often times, when you are greatly stressed by a situation it is hard to think of something new to try to help yourself, but by listening to what has worked for others, you may just find the answer that you have been searching.
Also, when you hook up with people who have shared your same sort of experience, they many times will have your same reaction to things and can either help you to avoid said reaction or to help you to handle your reaction to said trigger event.
We are living in a society that offers support groups for pretty much everything. (Not everything, as those who are close to me are well aware, but close.)
And if there is not a group, what then? Are you doomed to survive something alone and do you assume that there are no other people out there who have had your like experience? Or do you do something about it?
I would like to share an example with you. About 10 years ago, maybe 15, rape was not spoken about very openly. It was very misunderstood and there was so much shame involved and victim blaming, it just wasn't talked about. But someone did. Someone took a stand and said this is wrong. These people are hurting and it was not their fault. They need support and help. And from that one person, the word began to spread, and research was done and support groups were formed and society began to acknowledge that rape was a crime of anger, not sex.
Who can you support? Is there an experience that you have had that needs a support group? Maybe it is your calling to begin the process.
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