WONDERS of the SOCIAL SELF

• Gifts Sour & Sweet

• We experience belonging and exclusion, authenticity and fakeness, transparency and hiding, non-judgment and contempt, reciprocity and deep isolation. The SOCIAL SELF can experience rejection or acceptance, connectedness or misunderstanding and great gains and losses.

• The SOCIAL SELF can find intimacy, love and support but also can be faced with betrayal, self-defensiveness and loneliness. The SOCIAL SELF can act with kindness, generosity, resilience, justice and mercy.

• Self-Inquiries

• What are your most important relationships? Why?

• What do these relationships teach you about yourself?

• What relationships have had the biggest influence, positively or negatively on you?

• How do you sustain or nourish your relationships?

• My relationships bring meaning to my life, but they do not describe all of me. What about the deeper parts of me?