Dear Reflection,
First I want to say (shout) "Good for you!" !!!
Many of those in your audience will themselves be survivors and will draw their own inspiration from both your spoken and unspoken messages. Can you picture each of us there within the audience reflecting our mutual strength... and hearing you communicate in just the way you choose.
I understand the ambivalence about any personal disclosure within your presentation;- the need for safety seeming to compete with the need to speak out. I have presented many seminars for parents and teachers in the past on "child sexual abuse" etc from a twice-removed perspective, and can no longer maintain this separation.
I participated in a recent conference which included a session on "working with intrusive images in PTSD" and noticed the presenter gradually shifted from the 3rd person plural "they" to the first person plural "we" when referring to clients with PTSD. I am not sure if she was aware of this shift but I thought she was so courageous and had her audience spellbound.
We will be there with you in spirit!
Elysha
No rain, ~ no rainbows!
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