Real Stories, Real Healing

My husband and I along with our 2 "almost" adult children met for 4 Enneagram sessions last summer. We experienced kindness, understanding, and the ability to talk about some of the hard things between us. It gave us language to talk about some of the different ways we view the world and it has helped us to be more compassionate with each other. I am grateful for the way the Enneagram has helped me in my parenting.

During my time at Guidespring, I have felt so blessed by a mentor who shows deep compassion and support as I process my story. For as long as I can remember, I have struggled with anxiety and depression. Story work has helped me understand the ways that difficult experiences in my childhood still impact my thought patterns today. I have found so much healing and freedom in the safe space that is created during each one of my sessions.

My Enneagram session was really powerful, I learned a lot about myself.  I just felt so heard and understood for the first time. It was really freeing.

Life can bring events that are very difficult to name and process. Sometimes things happen that leave us feeling alone, shredded of our identity, and hopeless. Unlike house fires or health problems where we can call 911 and get a frenzy of help in a matter of minutes, there are events that unfold, or conversations that exchange in real life that leave us feeling lost.

Life goes on whether we like it or not, even if our world crashes. As we face these difficult to name experiences, such as sexual abuse, domestic violence, physical abuse, emotional abuse, spiritual distortions, abandonment and many more, we do come to a place where we make the choice to stuff these hard experiences down inside, or, we dare to find help to sort through the sea of confusing thoughts, feelings, or emotions. We sometimes come to a T in the road in life. We can choose to muscle up with education and performance to make it look like we are all good and well, or we could dare to take a step out into our story of pain and say, “ I need help with this.”

I am going to give a peek into a Marriage Journey Group experience from GuideSpring. First, I would like to thank the staff at GuideSpring for the clean organized facilities, the delicious food, and the warm relaxing atmosphere I find at GuideSpring. I also want to make special mention to the staff for valuing those of us that come to GuideSpring, we feel cared about, and valued by the staff here.

Marriage Journey Group is an experience. An experience, or an adventure, that couples go through together. A safe place where we traveled with each other into our stories. Stories of joy, and stories of pain. This experience was unique because I got to do this with my wife. I could sit beside her, and hear her tell her story to our ( Journey Group Parents). And my wife could sit beside me, while I shared my story in the group. I experienced a deeper connection with my wife, also redefined my understanding of how our view of sexuality in marriage is either helped or hindered, by our childhood experience.

Jonathan Wise- Marriage Journey Group Participant

I need my sessions to cope with a difficult journey. Even my children remind me that I need to keep my appointments. 

-Mary Jean