Natalie Beers
Dear Mitch,
I just wanted to express how much gratitude I have for you coming into my life, and showing me how much I can learn from myself that I really truly already know what's going on, I just have to take the time, and accept the help to find it.
It was the scariest step I've ever taken, to entrust the deepest darkest secrets from my life into your hands, but the funniest and most enlightened moments of my life when I broke through.
I laughed and cried because I got the irony – that it was there all along I really just chose not to see it. I never ever thought I would 'agree' with you – and saw that it wasn't you I had to agree with, it was just 'life'.
Not to minimise my experience, you saw how traumatised I was from it and I never thought it was something I could 'let go of' or forgive the person for abusing me. Now I realise I don't have to. I can see the magnitude and the balance in life and it's ok. I have thanked my abuser for making me look for love and safety where I never thought possible and that in itself is a miracle.
I couldn't believe the response from people afterwards, they told me I was glowing and I felt so calm and relieved. I'm looking forward to applying what I have learnt to the rest of my life. I can't express in words how much this has helped me, and I realise that I have helped myself.
From the bottom of my heart, Thank you.
Natalie Beers