(March 19, 2007) "I just wanted to send a small note to thank you for taking the time and effort to explain so thoroughly this "void" that I have lived with my entire life. Recently, after ending a relationship that I knew should be over I had the same horrible feelings that I had felt so many times before. Even though I knew that the relationship needed to end I could not rest in the fact that I had done the right thing. All the same emotions came rushing back that hurt to my very core. After a talk with a friend he suggested that I do a little research about fear of being intimate, abandonment, guilt and so on. That is when I found your sight and began reading. For the first time in my 45 years did I have a clue what was going on in my brain, my body and with my emotions. My God, who knew. It all makes perfect sense now. For the first time in my life I feel peace. I am actually excited about learning and healing the part of me that has confused me for so long. I am now in the process of reading and living your pages on healing my inner child. Again, thank you for making this information available and changing my life."
"I want to thank you for all of your wonderful articles on your site. I have been searching for so long for an answer and when I found your site I was so excited I cried. It seemed like everything I read you wrote just for me right down to the part about your last relationship. . . I have never felt so peaceful in my life though and I have hope. Thank you so much and I hope you are blessed beyond measure."
"I continue find your website a fabulous tool to assist with the business of a real life. Thank you."
"I have been tirelessly reading your online articles and they have been of great help to my healing. I find myself emerging from suffering and confusion into happiness, understanding and serenity. It must be an amazing feeling to know that you have brought peace and happiness to so many. With love and deepest gratitude."
"Thank you very much for sharing on your web pages. I found the way you write so honestly about your own experience very moving, and there was so much I could identify with."
"I have spent a lot of time on your website the past month and recently purchased your book Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls. I absolutely loved it. I can not thank you enough for your work. Thank you for opening up your heart and soul. Reading your book and the writing on your website has brought me so much peace and comfort at a time when I needed it most. . . . I am currently writing an autobiographical book and would like to know if I can use parts of your book as quotes included in my book. I can honestly say that you have explained my life through your book and also changed my perspective on how I view life forever. By profession I am a Psychiatric Nurse and will be incorporating this invaluable information in to my practice. It is going to allow me extend a wonderful path of healing to many.
I want you to know I am thankful for knowing about you. Thank God there are people like you out there spreading the good news. This is something that is going to transform the world. Again, thank you for all you do. Also, thank you for signing my copy of your book. I appreciate you taking the time. much love..."
"I love your book--I think it is genius"
"I accidentally- no let me rephrase that - I went onto google and typed "self love" your website was one of many that appeared. My soul led me to your site - I am completely wow'd. It's just what the dr ordered. I have not read the material on it in concetration but have skimmed through the pages and I am wow'd. I've printed some stuff which I'll be reading tonight at home - I cant wait. Thanking you for such a lovely website of enlightenment - I hope to get more from your site and will advise you accordingly and if there's anything to add I will do so."
"Thanks for the amazing work you have done on your own recovery and for your courage in sharing that process with other sufferers. Over the last week or so I have spent hours reading, thinking and feeling about a great deal of the information on your website. When you describe the illness of co-dependence, you are writing my biography. I have already gained a new perspective on my life and some hope for a different future from the material you have provided."
"Your website is quite amazing and anticipate it taking me a very long time to get through it all."
"I wanted to say that I find your website very educational and helpful. I can relate to so much of what you say. . . . Thank you so much for providing so much helpful information on codependency... You really are a blessing!"
"I read your book "The Dance of Wounded Souls" yesterday. And again today. The first time, I could hardly get through it. I had no idea what you were saying. Yet, a few passages resonated and I decided that I needed to re-read the book. I have found your book, for me, to be life changing. I am 43 years old and I don't believe I have ever known the "gut" feeling of Truth that I had when I understood that my inner 5 year old was "driving my bus" (and has been for as long as I can remember). Codependence has been SO EXPENSIVE in every way in my life that I can't even describe it. I am still reeling from this first hint of recovery. I have been attending CoDA for about three months and have introduced myself as "codependent". The next time I share, I will use "recovering codependent"."
"I just wanted to send you an email to thank you for all your work on codependency - it has helped me greatly in so many many ways"
"I just wanted to say, I have been visiting your site for a little more than a year. I also have a copy of your book. I have benefitted so much from your writing, and I even found ACoA because of it. . . . The second thing is that I think you are too apologetic about your pay section of your site. I was happy to pay. You have given so much to me. If people do not wish to pay, then I think that it is their own problem. But I was more than happy to pay, and actually a little off-put that you had apologized for having a pay section. You need to make money too, and you are helping people in the best way possible! All power to you!"
"I am enjoying your writtings Thanks for making then available"
"Hey, I really like this article on Happy holidays, Sad holidays. I am just noticing this year as well that I am around my friends and feeling deeply sad, and I hadn't been thinking about the joy I also feel. Reading this article reminds me that, yes, I can feel more than one feeling at once. I can feel deeply sad, that might be the strongest feeling, but when I define my self in that moment by it then it is an untruthful accusation. I am not "sad" or "suicidal", I am feeling sad but also lots of other things. Thank you for writing this article for this time of year :) I appreciate having it to read when I am going through this time, and likely to forget some of the subtler details."
"I appreciate your site and your words."
"I love, love, love, did I say, love your book! "The Dance of Wounded Souls" is what I hope everyone in my group will have the opportunity to read. I have looked for a book like this all my life. Like I said in a previous email, I was sitting here minding my own business and your name appeared. I am so grateful for the Divine unfolding. I can't thank you and Him enough. My journey has been a long one. I wouldn't change a thing. Your book feeds my soul."
"I found your website very valuable. So much made sense to me and my life at the moment."
"I found your wesite last night and I amazed at how it describes me to a "t". I know I can benefit greatly from Robert Burney and Joy to You and Me. Thank you."
"Tonight I have spent 5 hrs off and on the computer, discovering that yes, indeed, there's a factor of co-dependency alive and well in me. I started out looking for something for someone else, and ta da -- found me. Why am I not surprised? Ultimately, I have found your site, and tho I haven't read an nth of what I shall, I've read enough to believe you (your site) will be a valuable resource. Thank you for the massive amount of work that has gone in to making the site, for the journey to Self that you openly and freely share, and for the continued work you carry forward."
"Hi. I find your essays on boundaries very helpful."
"I've just found your web site and am thrilled with the contents,i've also ordered the book and cd set as well,i've been in recovery for a number of years and am just now getting to the core issues,,my relationship broke up 8 month's ago with my partner,,a very sick individual,,,and i've been in an awful lot of emotional pain since,,,they've moved on with ease,,(when you dont look at yourself it's easy to do that),,any how i just wanted to say thank you and i look forward to dissecting this site and soaking it in,,it was found at the perfect time on my part."
"I found your information by Googleing "How to stop obsessive thinking." I loved what I read and it all has fit me to a "T.""
"I want tell you that I am so grateful that I have found your website. I have had revelations on my condition from reading your through your writings. I can deeply relate to so much of what you have written. Its like you have followed me around my entire life and wrote it just for me. Your writings have helped me tremendously."
"Dear Robert .... Thank you! While doing some searches on Jesus and Mary Magdalene and related topics, I stumbled into your sites .... divine intervention. . . . I am overwhelmed to find confirmation on your website of many conclusions I have come to myself through independent study, meditation, dreams, and prayer. . . . . I had never before reading your website connected "Wounded Inner Child" as a form of PTSD .... it makes incredible sense, and I will certainly keep it in mind in my counseling work....and in my own life!"
"It feels like a miracle that I found your site."
"I am very much looking forward to getting started on a path to recovery. I have purchased an intial telephone counseling session. I have read your book and listened to the tapes over and over again. I put the tape on when I go to bed at night, when I wake up in the middle of the night I put it on and when I wake up in the morning, I listen to it. I have done this for the last five days in a row. I want to do the work that needs to be done."
"I have not contacted you in awhile. we did a few phone counseling sessions in the past and I have emailed you from time to time. I wanted to wish you a Happy Holiday. Your website has guided me on my path of trusting the universe. It makes sense out of the nonsense and I am grateful for you. So again thank you."
"I have tears of thankfullnes at receiving your reply! It has given me even more hope to explore and understand the impact of my "childhood" and inner child that is getting in touch again. I shall continue to visit your site and will be buying your book as soon as possible! I live in the Netherlands and am so glad to have acsess to you via the internet.......Thanks again so much for your time and efforts to pass on your knowledge and experience."
"It was some time I contacted you to thank you for you book......I beleive I contacted you from a different email back than. Since dealing with my child hood abuse issues and learning to love myself I have come out of the closet. I am walking in love and peace with my husband and he is handling things pretty well considering. I wanted to thank you as your book and site helped me out so very much. . . . Much love to you and thank your for all your loving support."
"What a great heart you have. I feel really lucky to have found you and your work."
"I started finding web-sites like yours it gave me clarity, WOW!!!!!, when I found you're site holy shit!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! . . . I can tell from you're site you are full of compassion and will give me some advice."
"My therapist gave me a series of articles to read which prompted me to go to your website. What I have read so far has been incredilby helpful."
"Hi Robert, my name is ______ and i just want to start by sayin a big THANKs to you for the work you are doing. It has been invaluable to me on my own journey of healing! I can only imagine the countless others that you have helped, it seems without much thought of personal gain! . . . I love the emotional healing aspect of your work, which certainly resonates strongly with me!"
"Since I have found the website, joy2meu, I have been profoundly enlightened"
"thank you so very much your book has touched my life greatly, I have been recommending it to everyone I know~ I sure orders will be coming in soon~ but mostly I pray that it will touch my friends and all others that I have suggested to purchase your book , and it will inspire them to make a change in their life for the better~ Again, I wish I had the time to tell you my story, it has been an amazing journey~ from a extremely abusive childhood to homeless to almost losing my life from a 21 year eating disorder ( praise God ~ I have recovered, out of 5 of my friend's I was the only survivor)~ So in short~ thank you and God blessings upon your life,"
"Thank you for your exceptionally useful, wise and insightful site, Joy2MeU. . . the content of the site is adult, well researched and deeply meaningful."
"I don't usually send letters to writers, musicians or other famous people, but as I looked over your site again I just thought why not send thank you? 3 years ago when I discovered I was addicted and codependent, I read your site ALOT along with books by Melody Beattie and Pia Mellody and I absolutely thank you from the bottom of my heart for having your writings online and accessible to all, it's a beautiful gift to your fellow mankind and is so helpful. I had no idea about boundaries. Now I protect myself a lot better and am a much nicer person :)"
"Thank you for your amazingly helpfull site."
"I am so happy to see that your webpage still exsists. It's been many years since I have been on but your webpage was there, when I needed it most. I learned so much about life with you and your understandings. . . I just referred your page to friend and I thought hmm.. I should go on it too. Can't wait to start reading again and healing another part of my life."
"Thank-you for everything you have posted on your website!!! Your revelations you have typed about Co-Dependency are truly already transforming me, and truly truly I am full of joy for finding this, and giving all the glory to my beautiful God!!! :) I know He lead me to your site!!! I am so happy, this is exactly what I needed at this time! :)"
"Thx for your response, I really appreciate it! I can only imagine how busy you are!! Thx again for sharing with me, I will do some reading. You are truly gifted and in the Divine Flow. May God continue to bless you"
"I did not expect to hear back from you personally, what a pleasant suprise. When I googled obsessive thinking and your website came up, I could not stop reading your articles. I had to purchase the book. I look forward to reading the book!"
"your website has been very helpfull."
"You have no idea how deeply you have touched me! I am a little boy who was prevented from exposing my emotions. Now, I am a person, not yet a man, who was not able to express my emotions to myself or anyone else. I've been reading your information now for the past four days, and I can't stop gleaning the information that I crave. For the past three days, my spare time after taking care of the everyday things that need to done, is spent reading your works and then evaluating my inner self. I have never had such a clear view into why I am the way I am. I've sought out the help of a friend, who is a therapist and I believe that I am on the path of recovery now. I at least can see a light at the end of the tunnel, or that black hole that you so vividly depict. The therapist that I am in contact with is hired by the Police Dept that I work for, just to ride with each of us every once in a while for us to bounce things off of. Through my interaction with him and the descriptions that you offered of going through that black hole, I can tell that he has already done that in his own healing. He is a recovering alcoholic. It is my goal/hope that one day I will be a person that is capable of Love and being Loved. I think that as that occurs, I will not be the lonely little boy full of saddness and insecurity any longer! I just wanted to say Thank You for putting your experiences out there for others to find and use to their benefit."
"It was wonderful to receive your holiday message (referring to December Update) and I will be sharing it with our Nar-Anon Group. Blessings to you and your family too!"
"thank you for the great work you are doing Robert. I continue to be one of your supporters and admirers and quite often give out you web site to my own clients."
"I cannot even begin to express how much your writing has profoundly impacted my life. I discovered your writing when I set out to find out why I continually found myself in abusive relationship after abusive relationship despite recognizing the signs of abusers. An internet search took me to your writing on emotional incest which I read in absolute amazement as it described my relationship with my father with astounding accuracy. I continued to read the other writings on your site and could not order Codependence, The Dance of Wounded Souls quickly enough. Your writing paved the path for my discovery and identification with Adult Children of Alcoholics. I embarked upon the journey to the core of the tightly weaved layers of the dysfunction in my family and the manifestation of the dysfunction throughout my entire life. I often read aloud passages from your book, and this piqued the interest of others and I soon found myself introducing the concepts from your writing to them. I suddenly knew with absolute clarity the direction my life was meant to follow, and made the decision to pursue a PhD in Counseling Psychology, and will start in the fall."
"i find your site very informative and can relate to some of the information and some of the other info certainly gives me a different perspective."
"I have just read through part of your site (I'm new to it) and write to express my gratitude to you for your writing about the process of your relationsip (1998/9). I realise this is old 'history' now and you are doubtless moved on to continuing life adventures. Nevertheless, writing about your own process has given me MUCH clarity about a recent relationship/ending. I have been in a screaming heap over this but am now starting to put together the story that fits, and through this process, start to believe (and SEE actually) that I am now more likely to have the thing I want which is a (real) relationship. Thank you."
"I've just read your book and found it to be extraordinarily helpful."
"I poked around the web looking up emotional child abuse and trust issues. I found your site and all became clear. . . I have dealt with so much that I am sort of bummed there is plenty more to uncover release and heal, but I have come far enough to know this wounded part of me is not all of me."
"So I got on the internet and the first thing I came upon was your website. The first paragraph of Obsession/Obsessive thinking part 1 hit like a rocket. ìBeing in our heads ? thinking, fantasizing, ruminating ? is a defense we adapted in childhood to help us disassociate from the emotional pain we were experiencing. WOW!!!!! This has been my life since the age of 5 years. I donít know of any other way to live. I can tell you that I just canít bear the thought of living the rest of my life with this pain."
"I would like to express my gratitude to you for your website. . . . I wrote, mainly, to let you know that your site, your words, your insight, your guidance served as footprints next to me in the sand tonight. I was asking for guidance to calm me and a term popped in my head. "Obsessive Thoughts". I Googled this term and found you. Funny thing is that I have been writing about Joy and me/you, you/me......today I was contemplating renaming myself Joy. All just hints so I would recognize your site. Syncronicity never ceases to amaze me. "
"Just wanted to say, brilliant work. My wife and I are both incest and child abuse survivors and learning what weíve learnt from your website has pushed our individual recoveries far further along than we could have previously imagined. So thank you.
I made this posting on survivors forum: I would recommend that everyone on this site and any other abuse, mental/emotional health, Alcoholics Anonymous, Al Anon, Gamblers Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, BPD, Victims of Domestic Violence websites etc start learning about the true definition, the true nature of codependancy and itís causes and effects. I would recommend the first place to start is a site called www.joy2meu.com I donít think there is anybody else who has been able to gather all the information and demonstrate it verbally or in print as well as the man who created this site."
"Lovely website. Well written."
"This is the best book I have ever came across dealing with these issues... it feeds my soul. I can't think of a better description."
"Im 21yrs old from Sydney, Australia. Over the past months I have been uncovering and adventuring through the path of recovery. I have found your website the most insightful so far. When i started on my journey I found most of the information I found helpful to my cause but my not fulfilling to my overall understanding. I still had this internalised feeling of doubt and suspicion over my newly acquired perspective. Though, with all honesty the thoughts you put forward have filled that gap and inspire and motivate me on my path."
"Thank you for sharing some of your writing on your website. I haven't gone through the 12 steps but i was intererested in reading about your perspective on spirituality. For some reason it doesn't suprise me that even though i haven't been through the 12 steps, i have been "forced" to go through a similar transformation that you describe in powerlessness to empowerment."
"Thanks for the richness of your website. I almost could heal with just that."
"I can't tell you how lucky I feel to have happened upon your website. I have come to realize most recently that I have what they call "obsessive behavior". I am no expert of course, and as far as I know it only exists during, but mostly after, romantic relationships that I have been involved in, and as I was searching for information on line regarding this, I came across your website. . . .After reading a few of your articles I couldn't believe how much I connected with what you were saying, it's as if you were talking about me and my life, and although reading is wonderful and enlightening, I need more."
"Well i have to say thank you for your insightful web pages. . . these articles all ring true for me."
"I am enjoying your book greatly. . . I do not like to read that much but your book is quite interesting. The majority of the information makes complete sense. It is nice to know that I am not a screwed up hopeless cause. I feel empowered to make changes and do not feel guilty for seeking out help to be a happy, healthy person. I want to be a postitive role model for my children as well. I have spent far too much of my life being bitter and owning that bitterness as part of my identity. I did not want to forgive or let it go because I felt I would loose part of who I am. However, I was only preventing myself from giving and accepting love and joy. Thank you for your book."
"I just found your great website in my search for a CODA meeting."
"I guess I just want to say thank you for your site; it has helped me in so many ways. Most importantly, it clarifies all the work that I've been doing over the past 14 years...I'm finally understanding and forgiving. Again, thank you so very, very much!"
"All I can say is WOW! I Googled this morning and the first site I landed on was yours."
"Another relationship(really learning lesson) for me just ended. I had become sick of this. I know codependency well. I went back and reviewed my life and came up with variuos triggering incidents, had a list of issues, main two being that of "trying to prove to my mother that I was good enough," and to be complete I needed to be in a relationship. In fact all of my relationships followed these lines. I was not sure how to address these and begin the healing process. I found you on the internet. The rest is history, and your book arrived at the appropriate time.
I cannot put into words the enormity of help and comfort and potential for healing that your message brought to me. My list of issues was validated, and as I read the book, it was as if I was reading an autobiography. Many of your ideas, I have had and know them to be true, I lacked the confidence and trust in myself and love to know them as true. During the three days that I have been reading your message, there have been four triggering events that brought me to tears. Before I began to read, my eyeballs hurt, no headache just the pain of eye strain. With my emotional release, the eyeball pain is gone. All I know is that the God-force was preparing me to begin dealing with the couped up emotional pain. I know it is only the beginning, but I embrace the journey with a more appropriate attitude.
I will continue to process your message, and with God's help, grow stronger and help the universal evolutionary process. I will always be mindful of integration and balance. Thank you, and I truly appreciate the message that you brought to me at the proper time. Needless, to say I will be referring your book to anyone that will listen."
"well, if so, then hello robert. i just came across the website that featured your 'healing the child within' articles. i wanted to say that every single thing in them matches what i've been learning in counselling. i found it reassuring to read the articles as it was a reinforcement that someone else (besides my counsellor,) understands what i am going through.
i found your explanation of feeling the feelings and how you thought if you allowed yourself that right you'd end up crying in a rubber room for the rest of your life, quite accurate! in fact, almost every day i feel i am masochistic for allowing myself to "go there." i feel quite alone in the process, as most people around me simply self-medicate and must think i'm quite self-absorbed with all of this "healing" business. and the fact that no special alien can come down and heal me/there are no secret codes/pills/time limit resonated with me as well...i've often wondered if my soul had been plagued with some sort of grief a shamanistic healer could free me from. also, the harder i try to clean up my life (quit drinking, go to therapy, etc.) the WORST i seem to be...because the "pandora's box" is indeed open, and i am feeling for a change. it's no fun, huh?. . . . . ps: i can REALLY relate to those articles...the more i think about it, the more i can. the part about 'trust' just popped in my mind...it's so true---i'm always suspicious because i don't know who to trust because what we naturally felt as kids was told was wrong or inappropriate. GOD, what a waste of time all this regressing is haha."
Responses to January Update and from those who replied to my special appeal for Help mailing:
"I'm so happy to hear of your new
found wealth of joy :-) I wish you the best. Thank you for sharing your
story. Thank you also for helping me at a time when my heart was aching
and I was so confused. . . Thanks for your help. Congratulations on
your happiness. You deserve it."
"Your welcome for the donation. I have a little extra money
this time of year. And I was reading your update and got to the part
about your book. Towards the end when you were pleading and you were
asking for anyone who had been impacted by your work to donate. Your
book, your web-site, and these sessions have all made a big impact on
my life and my recovery. Everytime I tell my story in a Coda newcommers
meeting I remember the night I found your web-site and read and read
for days. It was the first time I realized why I was so sick and the
first time I could ever remember having some sort of voice come from
under the pain, a voice that sounded like the real me. For that and
some many more reasons I know that I'm on a path to more joy and love.
And that God intended me to meet you, so I could learn about the real
me. Thank you so much."
"Just read your your Update Newsletter 2006 and what has been
happening in your recovery adventure. I am so happy for your wonderful
news. May God of the Universe and all the Magnificent Angels continue
to bless and keep lighting your path. I will also keep you in my
prayers that the "Dance" keeps going out to more spiritual beings who
need to know about the dis-ease at a much deeper level! I know I have
benefitted from so much. You are such a dear En-Lightened-Being and I
truly hope the best for you and yours. I did send you a small
Love-offering through PayPal and may the God/Goddess encourage more
Magnificient Spritual Beings who have been so wonderfully and
miraculously helped do their part in "giving back" to the Universe to
assist in keeping the "Dance" going on. More souls need to encounter
the Divine message you have communicated. In Light, Love and Prayers."
(This person is responding to the subscription to Dancing in
Light; that I sent to people who donated - and that is still available
on the Help Page.)
"Dear Robert:
Thank you for the subscription to
Dancing in Light; I had missed having access to that material. I would
be hard pressed to cite a single paragraph that I wouldn't deem worth
fifty dollars to me. . . . . . But your January Newsletter with your
characteristic honesty and willingness to share both the glory and the
grief of working this path reminded me of the very precious Truth that
my path is unfolding perfectly according to a Divinely arranged plan,
even when, and especially when, it feels more like some Cosmic game of
"Wack-a-mole" (as in, just when you poke your head up, it feels like
you get clobbered). Within a day or so of having read the Newsletter, I
got myself out of a very dark place by simply recognizing my right and
my need to grieve (and doing so), and, to me, just as powerfully by
being grateful. Among the reasons to be grateful are just the love and
joy you describe in your life now, Robert: I rejoice along with so many
other people in the pictures of your beautiful family. Yet, once again,
you have taught me that I can feel more than one emotion at a time: I
grieve at the prospect of any of your work not being available. Please
consider my earlier suggestion that I would be willing to subscribe on
a regular basis. I read on average a book a day. No where else can this
material be found. Your body of work is incomparable."
"I just donated not because I'm altruistic - but because I
keep loaning out my copies of the book (and once the tapes) and they
never seem to find their way back to me - so I need to order another
copy for myself (again!) and of course from now on I'll just be
referring people directly to you for their own copies. Peace and
prosperity to you and yours...."
"I am not on your e-mail list yet, as this the first time I
have messaged you; however, I have been reading the articles you have
on the website, particularly those on co-depencence and healing the
inner child. I am in recovery in a 12-step program and I have been
working on my issues for over 10 years. When it became clear in therapy
and through my reading that my issues lay below the surface addiction,
I went on the internet and did a search on co-dependence. Your site was
one of the top 3, so I took a shot. I have since
become an avid reader. I read your request for donations to have the
book, which I have not read yet, printed. I will be sending a gift
through PayPal. I can't afford much because my life is in transition,
but what I can afford I will send. Thanks for you work and your
inspiration."
"....thank you for sharing your need with everyone. I know
that everything will be in place, exactly when you need it to be. :-) I
was only able to share $25.00 but if everyone did $25.00 .... it is
amazing how people realize the expense to *carry the message* Blessings
to you"
"Thanks, for all the information that you share. I can relate to so much and I am so grateful for recovery. I appreciate you."
"I have benefited tremendously from your writings"
"Well the site has made such a difference in my life and
understanding myself (it's a great supplement to my therapy sessions) I
had to thank you in some way!"
"I wish you all the best, Robert. Your book and audio tape were of great comfort to me, and I enjoy your web-site."
"I purchased your book several years ago, and visited and
studied your site for quite a while. It really helped me get through a
tough stage I was going through. Truthfully, I have not thought about
it for quite some time, as life as gone on as it does. However, this
morning, I was reflecting on some goals I have when your site popped
into my head. I wanted to be sure to include a link to your site and
acknowledge you online for a variety of reasons, once I got my idea up
and running. But I couldn't remember the site name. I put it down in my
thought list to be sure to look it up. Then I got home, and there was
this email from you. If I have received emails from you recently, I was
not aware of it as I rarely use this address anymore as it is so
clogged up with spam anymore. But there you were, hitting me in the
face. I am not a believer in coincidence. I contributed what I could at
the moment, but also felt compelled to write to you. At the moment I
don't have much else to offer you except support and encouragement to
not quit. What you have written and are committed to in your personal
life, and ambition to help others is a terrific life's work. It reached
me, a stranger, and I am sure that there are many others out there. I
also admire your courage to reach out and ask for help."
"Your book was one of the first books i read in recovery and
I am now 21 mnths clean and sober!!! Thank you for your wisdom! I will
pass your link to friends I think will benefit from reading it. It
really helped me!"
"I was able to donate $10 to your cause. I'm sorry it
couldn't be more. You touched my life in a very critical time and I am
forever grateful."
"you are a very big part of my healing and I am grateful. I
am happy to do what I can and wish it was more...Thank you for all that
you have contributed to me... all my blessings in your journey"
"I *so* wish I was rich and could help you right now because your web site has helped me incredibally and I want to thank you."
"i have benifited so much from your giving and sharing and
human-ness. i have prayers to contribute, i also, have no money, and i
have great prayers and great belief and God provides me with
opportunities, yay, prayers are with you, my friend."
"Thanks for your email, good luck with the print run. I have
enjoyed, and leaned a lot reading your websites and book. I am
co-dependent alcoholic in recovery, and making progress, thanks !"
"It is my pleasure to support the important work you are
doing. I bought audio tapes of Dance of Wounded Souls and have listened
to them many, many times. Your insights are wonderful. I am also
grateful for your courage to share your personal life on your webpage.
I do receive your newsletter and enjoy it very much. Thank you for
access to The Dancing in Light page. Wishing you much success "when one
follows one's dream the whole universe conspires to achieve it.""
"I hope the Book publishing is going well for you. I believe
your work has touched many and the Universe will find a way for your
words to reach many more. I also believe that the Universe will
manifest the financial well being that you need and so deserve, coming
out your generosity, to continue your work."
"I had emailed you about two or three years ago and you
responed back to me. (you may not remember) I was quite surprised to
see an email from you. It was funny, becauce about a month ago, I was
searching for your website...and do you think that I could find it..
NO. I couldn't. Then I log on this evening and see an email with your
address plain and clear. I guess things happen for a reason, eh. I
praise you for having the courage and strength to ask for donations. If
I had a lot of money, I would donate all that you needed. I would.
However, with that not being the case, I can only donate a small amount
of $10. I will mail it to you, ok. I am very proud of you. You are a
wonderful man. Don't forget it."
"You are welcome Robert. One day I asked for help and you
were there to help me. I am happy to be helpful to you now. Thank you
for the Dancing in Light subscription....your writing has always
inspired me to heal and find my way...again, thank you. Happy, joyous
and free"
"Just sent a donation. It's been years since what you wrote
gave me a lift. It wasn't about the personal soul mate journey stuff,
it was the truth of the past impacting me today that hit me. I wasn't
crazy after all. I had amnesia because of the trauma, and reading what
you had written was helpful in confirming I was on the right path. It
resonated."
"I opened my eyes this morning, looked around at the light
filling the room, and smiled, happy to be awake, happy to be alive,
happy to be who and where I am. I leaped out of bed. A little later,
while getting ready for work and doing my gratitude work, I had just
come to the part where I express gratitude for the gift of feelings,
when I gasped, "You woke up happy, ______!"
Happy right now. Happy in this moment.
WOW!
Joy to you and your family, Robert!
Dancing
Robert, I just accessed Dancing in Light, clicked on a link I was drawn to, and read this passage:
"It also helps to realize that most of the people who have
power and riches are not old souls. Old souls have lived a lot of
lifetimes and were born at a heart chakra level of consciousness in
this lifetime. Their life paths are about following their heart path -
not the power and acquisition path of those who are coming from a solar
plexus chakra level of consciousness. In fact, many old souls are out
of balance in relationship to their solar plexus consciousness (and
therefore money and material possessions) because they did not know how
to allow themselves to open up to manifestation without betraying their
heart path. Many of us had the experience in past lives of abusing our
power and are terrified of doing it again. We are also terrified
because in past lives when we owned our power we got punished for it."
I am soooo grateful for this passage and the A-HA moment of
recognition of intuitive Truth! This is so Amaaaaaaazing-zing-zing!
Every bit of crap, ah, fertilizer in 2005 blows away like so much dust
compared with this. I gave myself a hug at how delicious this is.
Please hug yourself and anyone else you've a mind to! Thank you soooo
much!
