CARING FOR THE CAREGIVER

As a team, we will focus on caring for each other as ‘caregivers’ in the realm of entering stories of harm. If you are a leader, in most cases, you have not had many opportunities to have a group that can care for you. 

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Our definition of this kind of care is being in a group setting where you get to be a participant and others get to read your face... 

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where others get to engage your story and how you bring your story to them…

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where you are encouraged to enter your own grief…

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where you can cry and rage…

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where you do not need to be edited and you may use sentence enhancers and…

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where you can gain more redemption in your own heart.

Moving forward with the assumption that you cannot take anyone farther than you have gone in your own story, this kind of care is a must. Another way to say this is that you cannot give away something you do not have. Our team recently finished doing Story Sage, an Allender Center Online Course, and one of the statements in the last session was “the lack of grief and anger is not a sign of maturity.”

Our commitment to doing this kind of care in an ongoing process is that we give from a place of abundance. We give from an abundance of connection to our pain, an abundance of connection to our grief, an abundance of connection to our anger, an abundance of connection to our story of redemption and our abundance of connection to our Hope for More 

that this process can bring.