with Sue Reynolds
Have you wrestled with any of these questions in your relationships:
1. Why do I go from one relationship to another without finding what I yearn for?
2. Why am I restless or critical with those I love?
3. Why am I uneasy with my own company when I’m alone?
4. Is it possible to be close to someone else – and still be myself?
How we feel about our own selves, how well or little we know our own selves, whether we feel alive inside, largely determine the quality of the time we spend alone, as well as the quality of the relationships we have with other people.
Being alone. Relating to others. Both have the potential for immense personal satisfaction. Both can seem painfully elusive to balance – or achieve. But intimacy and solitude are not opposing experiences. They are different expressions of our same self.
We cannot usefully address our difficulties in relationships without also considering how we spend our time alone. Nor can we take on “self-awareness” in any meaningful way without questioning what we expect from others.
Solitude is a very different experience than loneliness, and sex is only one way to express intimacy. Bringing intimacy and solitude together allows each of us to unravel why we need others and want to be free; why we want to be understood and guard our secrets; why we want to be loved “for ourselves” and yet may have difficulty accepting who we are.
Based on the work of Australian psychotherapist Stephanie Dowrick, writing instructor and therapist Sue Reynolds will lead participants in six weeks of self-discovery through guided exercises that will help them find the answers to these and other questions and begin to move toward self-acceptance and understanding and to find more joy and satisfaction in relationship to Self and to Others.
6 Weeks – starting Wednesday October 30th 7pm to 9:30pm $180