Comments on: To Hell and Back: Finding My Inner Voice…Again http://xicanopwr.com/2009/02/to-hell-and-back-finding-my-inner-voiceagain/ because there are some things still worth fighting for Sat, 12 Feb 2011 06:22:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: BrownViews http://xicanopwr.com/2009/02/to-hell-and-back-finding-my-inner-voiceagain/comment-page-1/#comment-6559 BrownViews Sun, 08 Feb 2009 05:27:55 +0000 http://xicanopwr.com/?p=1228#comment-6559 Know that you are in our thoughts. I, for one, admire your writing and in your absence, there is a vacuum. Nevertheless, I support your decision to take your time to heal and get strong again. While BrownViews in no way compares to your writing or the quality of your perspectives, I can relate how sometimes you just need a break. I wish you the best, Un abrazo, BrownViews Know that you are in our thoughts. I, for one, admire your writing and in your absence, there is a vacuum. Nevertheless, I support your decision to take your time to heal and get strong again. While BrownViews in no way compares to your writing or the quality of your perspectives, I can relate how sometimes you just need a break. I wish you the best,
Un abrazo, BrownViews

]]> By: Stace Medellin http://xicanopwr.com/2009/02/to-hell-and-back-finding-my-inner-voiceagain/comment-page-1/#comment-6558 Stace Medellin Sat, 07 Feb 2009 14:41:58 +0000 http://xicanopwr.com/?p=1228#comment-6558 Some of us have these events in our lives that can either bog us down, or can give us a certain edge about us. Like you, I can sometimes teeter on the brink with the same types of feelings because of various events in my life. But like I told you, "We survive!" And that should be all the reason to keep sharpening that edge, kickin' ass and taking names. ¿Sabes? Thanks for writing this. It gave me much to think about. Some of us have these events in our lives that can either bog us down, or can give us a certain edge about us. Like you, I can sometimes teeter on the brink with the same types of feelings because of various events in my life. But like I told you, “We survive!” And that should be all the reason to keep sharpening that edge, kickin’ ass and taking names. ¿Sabes? Thanks for writing this. It gave me much to think about.

]]> By: Leah Vanessa http://xicanopwr.com/2009/02/to-hell-and-back-finding-my-inner-voiceagain/comment-page-1/#comment-6557 Leah Vanessa Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:58:49 +0000 http://xicanopwr.com/?p=1228#comment-6557 Thank you for sharing this. It takes courage to voice your own struggles, but it truly does help those around you. God Bless you on your Journey. Thank you for sharing this. It takes courage to voice your own struggles, but it truly does help those around you. God Bless you on your Journey.

]]> By: Marisa Treviño http://xicanopwr.com/2009/02/to-hell-and-back-finding-my-inner-voiceagain/comment-page-1/#comment-6555 Marisa Treviño Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:06:36 +0000 http://xicanopwr.com/?p=1228#comment-6555 Amigo, I share everyone's admiration of you in being brave enough to expose such an intimate and hurtful part of your life. The older we get the more we realize that we truly don't suffer these hardships without a reason. Though I can't walk in your shoes, I can stand by you and I do. I hope you know that. You are a great friend, an excellent writer and most importantly, a compassionate human being. You are destined for far more than what you can imagine. Un abrazo, Marisa Amigo, I share everyone’s admiration of you in being brave enough to expose such an intimate and hurtful part of your life. The older we get the more we realize that we truly don’t suffer these hardships without a reason. Though I can’t walk in your shoes, I can stand by you and I do. I hope you know that.

You are a great friend, an excellent writer and most importantly, a compassionate human being. You are destined for far more than what you can imagine.

Un abrazo,
Marisa

]]> By: Texano78704 http://xicanopwr.com/2009/02/to-hell-and-back-finding-my-inner-voiceagain/comment-page-1/#comment-6554 Texano78704 Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:31:24 +0000 http://xicanopwr.com/?p=1228#comment-6554 When you started off talking about retreating inside yourself, it reminded it a bit of some books that I read from the early 90's, by Robert Bly and Sam Keen. But after some research, it turns out that the metaphor of retreating into one's own "cave" actually comes from John Gray's "Men are from Mars..." I do empathize with you and some of the experiences you recount here. Thanks for coming outside and sharing. When you started off talking about retreating inside yourself, it reminded it a bit of some books that I read from the early 90’s, by Robert Bly and Sam Keen. But after some research, it turns out that the metaphor of retreating into one’s own “cave” actually comes from John Gray’s “Men are from Mars…”

I do empathize with you and some of the experiences you recount here. Thanks for coming outside and sharing.

]]> By: XicanoPwr http://xicanopwr.com/2009/02/to-hell-and-back-finding-my-inner-voiceagain/comment-page-1/#comment-6552 XicanoPwr Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:05:35 +0000 http://xicanopwr.com/?p=1228#comment-6552 Thank you everybody for your support. I think what was stopping me from going forward, I was trying to run away from those so-called "failures" that have come into my life. Instead of embracing it as an experience I can learn from, I condemned it and tried to forget about it by pushing it away from my view. For what we resist persists, and what we face disappears. Once we see it for what it really is - an experience to be learned and to be applied to the wisdom that you have acquired - you never fail to succeed. FDR said it best, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." Thank you everybody for your support. I think what was stopping me from going forward, I was trying to run away from those so-called “failures” that have come into my life. Instead of embracing it as an experience I can learn from, I condemned it and tried to forget about it by pushing it away from my view.

For what we resist persists, and what we face disappears. Once we see it for what it really is – an experience to be learned and to be applied to the wisdom that you have acquired – you never fail to succeed.

FDR said it best, “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”

]]> By: Dave Bennion http://xicanopwr.com/2009/02/to-hell-and-back-finding-my-inner-voiceagain/comment-page-1/#comment-6551 Dave Bennion Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:49:41 +0000 http://xicanopwr.com/?p=1228#comment-6551 Welcome back, XP. Thank you for your honest and thoughtful writing. I think many of us fight our demons, but only a few are strong enough to talk about it openly. Welcome back, XP. Thank you for your honest and thoughtful writing. I think many of us fight our demons, but only a few are strong enough to talk about it openly.

]]> By: nezua http://xicanopwr.com/2009/02/to-hell-and-back-finding-my-inner-voiceagain/comment-page-1/#comment-6550 nezua Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:23:47 +0000 http://xicanopwr.com/?p=1228#comment-6550 XP, that was very intense. and brave. and brought up a lot in my own mind and heart and memory. i'm very glad to hear you have come through. and i guess i understand a lot better why it seemed you were off your game for a bit. it's been crazy rough days, bro. all over, for almost ten y ears now. i really think its fucked up the energy sphere, the spiritual continuum we all feed on and feed. it's polluted the plane. welcome back. or forward. and bienvenida a primavera....i wait for her every day and lately i've heard her voice coming over the rise. XP, that was very intense. and brave. and brought up a lot in my own mind and heart and memory. i’m very glad to hear you have come through. and i guess i understand a lot better why it seemed you were off your game for a bit. it’s been crazy rough days, bro. all over, for almost ten y ears now. i really think its fucked up the energy sphere, the spiritual continuum we all feed on and feed. it’s polluted the plane. welcome back. or forward.

and bienvenida a primavera….i wait for her every day and lately i’ve heard her voice coming over the rise.

]]> By: Jose http://xicanopwr.com/2009/02/to-hell-and-back-finding-my-inner-voiceagain/comment-page-1/#comment-6549 Jose Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:20:34 +0000 http://xicanopwr.com/?p=1228#comment-6549 That's the realest shit I've read all day, and maybe this year. Whoa. Thanks for sharing. I sincerely wish you the best in this endeavor. That’s the realest shit I’ve read all day, and maybe this year. Whoa. Thanks for sharing. I sincerely wish you the best in this endeavor.

]]> By: Russ Wellen http://xicanopwr.com/2009/02/to-hell-and-back-finding-my-inner-voiceagain/comment-page-1/#comment-6547 Russ Wellen Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:11:00 +0000 http://xicanopwr.com/?p=1228#comment-6547 Two things most people aren't aware of: 1. Just how hard it is to restore a healthy self-image after abuse -- whether it occurs when you're a child <i>or</I> as an adult. 2. That signals as to which direction to take in life regularly appear before us. Thanks, Edmundo, for demonstrating this. Hope you're whole again soon. Two things most people aren’t aware of: 1. Just how hard it is to restore a healthy self-image after abuse — whether it occurs when you’re a child or as an adult. 2. That signals as to which direction to take in life regularly appear before us.

Thanks, Edmundo, for demonstrating this. Hope you’re whole again soon.

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