Yesterday, while I was coming home to Boston from Washington DC, I started reading the amazing book Homecoming by Dr. Thema Bryant.
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In this page from Homecoming, Dr. Bryant uses the term “coping and healing” …
… which made me feel even better about coming home to continue offering my Coping and Healing groups at work.
On Friday, when I was attending a panel discussion titled I am a Nomad: Identity and Difference in Group Life at the American Group Psychotherapy Association conference, I stood up and said, “I’ve been at this conference since Monday, and this is the first time I’ve felt I was home. Thank you.” Somebody in the audience turned around and said to me, “That was wonderful,” which helped with my homecoming there.
Can you see homecoming in my other images for today?
I’m happy to be celebrating my homecoming with you on I Want You To Be Happy Day.
Here’s what I find on YouTube when I search for “homecoming.”
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Thanks to all who help me with all my homecomings, including YOU.
Soft. People, animals, colors, furniture, hearts.
Thanks for making this place homier, beth.
Welcome home, Ann. So many times I have returned home and am so grateful to be there, from trips abroad to American road trips to my weekly shopping trips. These latter, which of late are done with a bad back and an unreliable left leg, leave me especially grateful to be through the front door and sinking into my office chair with a week’s worth of sustenance on the kitchen table. So grateful to have a chair of my own in a room of my own and, yes, my own remote. 🙂
So grateful to have you here, Barbara.
Welcome home Anne! I shall check out that book!
Your presence is always so welcoming, Carol Anne!
Welcome home! And I like that the book has homework. I hated it as a kid but now when a therapist or teacher gives me homework I feel like they’re saying “I have confidence and trust in you to work on your own.”
I have confidence and trust in you, Chris.