Here is a letter from a young woman who was falling into despair.
Your generous donations to the Work Foundation allow me to offer her (and so many people like her) scholarships to the School for The Work and Turnaround House, and I am so very grateful for that.
Hello,
I am writing you because I am very close to giving up. My best friend told me about The Work. I am suffering from a deep depression and binge eating. This has been going on for three solid years now. I have had much trauma in my young life. Everything from surviving the Columbine Massacre to rape, to abuse, to self destruction. I keep trying to run from it, but I can't run from me. What I need from you is a scholarship for the 28 day Turnaround House program. I don't have 20,000 dollars. I have a little money in savings. But not enough. I am so scared that I am going to just give up. I need help. Thank you for your time and I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Thanks, S.
Again, thank you, family, for supporting this Work as it enters the lives of so many families.
Love, kt
Comments (1)
Hello. I was recently released from prison. I was incarcerated for the last 14 years and 7 months. I struggled for most of my life due to the abuses I went through as a child. I was not able to reconcile or cope with my thoughts and emotions.
I was very good at not showing it though. I could act "happy" in the worst of circumstances, but on the inside I was angry, sad, hurt, lonely, confused, dejected, dissatisfied, etc.
Act happy, feel angry. Then explode with anger once every few months. This was my life. Then one day the abused became the abuser, and off to prison I went.
The first ten years was the same as the previous years of my life.
Then I found Freedom Project (www.freedom-project.org). This began my turnaround. Then a woman with Freedom Project suggested some books for me to read. Eventually, she recommended "Loving What Is". When I read it, all of my old feelings dissappated. I no longer felt the hurt and pain of the abused child. I was able to move passed the old emotions.
Then, I was able to reconcile my thoughts and feelings with regard to the hurt I had caused others.
That's when I discovered true freedom; the freedom to choose in every moment how I want to feel and how I want to move through each moment of every day.
Then I was released from prison. And, now I want to take this opportunity to say thank you. You changed my life. You gave me the vision to see passed the pain and hurt and move to a place of love and acceptance. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
Best wishes and all my love,
Eric T.
Posted by Eric Tucker | August 30, 2009 5:23 PM
Posted on August 30, 2009 17:23