Scrap Your Trip Adds 183 Items + 183 S*A*L*E Items
We are all one.
I’ve often heard this saying and I never really understood it. We are all one? WAY too out there and "new age-y" for me.
But now I get it. We are all one…not in the "we are really just one person" sort of way, but in the "basically we are all the same person" sort of way.
My new therapist, (Tony got custody of our marriage therapist in the separation) did a workshop this weekend that I attended. She specializes in addiction, so there were a lot of people there with way more demons than me. (She was recommended to me. I don’t have any addictions. Well, maybe chocolate.) 
It was an extremely diverse group of people. Men and women. Grandmothers and teenagers. Black and white. Gay and straight. Lots of tattoos and piercings and even some dredlocks. To be honest, when I got there, I thought a couple of people were kind of scary.
But through the course of the weekend, here’s what I learned.
We are all wounded in some way. We all have anger and sadness. We are all afraid and blame others, but mostly ourselves. We all just want to be enough and for someone to love us for just being us.
So, by the end of the weekend, I didn’t notice the wrinkles or the tattoos or even the nose rings anymore. All I saw was another human being…just like me, who has things they are doing their best to deal with. And at the end of the day, all we want is another human being to really see us and love us.
I realize this is already getting long, but I want to share a really powerful thing that happened to me at the workshop. At the end of Saturday night, the instructors told us to get as many hugs as we needed before we left. I got hugs from several people, but then one from this young man I’ll call "Charlie". It was a really strong hug and it had a big effect on me.
The next morning everyone was talking about what had come up for them the night before. I raised my hand and said I had been overwhelmed with sadness when "Charlie" hugged me. I didn’t know when somebody was going to hug me like that again. Well, "Charlie" came over and sat next to me and put his arm around me. I was holding onto a pillow and I put my head on his shoulder and cried. And cried. And cried.
After a few minutes, I started to get uncomfortable, thinking of what he and everyone else must be thinking of me. But, I decided it felt good to have a shoulder to cry on and I didn’t care. So, I snuggled into him a little more and stayed like that until everyone was done talking.
Well, here is the amazing part. The next day when everyone was talking about what they got out of the weekend, "Charlie" said that his whole life everyone had supported him and he had never had the chance to be the support for someone else before. He looked at me and said "Thank you for letting me support you yesterday. It really meant a lot to me.”
I immediately broke into tears (lots of tears this weekend) and said, "You gave me the most incredible gift yesterday and now you are telling me I gave YOU one?"
We tend to do so much more for others than we ever do for ourselves. It’s easier for us to give than receive. But we are robbing others of the joy of giving to us. So, let someone do something nice for you. You never know the impact it may have on them.
Okay. Enough of that. Bring on the scrapbook supplies!
183 brand-new items this week, including "Gypsy" from Bo Bunny; "Victory", "California", "4-H", "Remembering You" and a Memorial 3-ring album from Creative Imaginations, "Santa’s Workshop" from Reminisce, "Camped Out" from Bella Blvd, Dazzle cardmaking stickers from Hot Off The Press, Bazzill flowers, EK Success stickers and three new outdoor albums from Karen Foster.
The SYT designers were also working on the following themes this week: Baby, Band, Birthday, Bowling, California, Canada, Fall, Fishing, Florida, Food, Georgia, Italy, Mexico, Music, Music, Nevada, Retirement, Snow, Thanksgiving, Track and Travel.
We have two custom papers – Custom School Scroll Grunge and Custom Wedding and two custom die cuts – a Custom Happy Birthday with Balloons and Custom Marching Band Jacket.
Click here to see all the new items: www.scrapyourtrip.com/11112009.html
We also have lots of way to save!
- Just order $49 or more and we’ll pay your shipping (US48)! Enter coupon code FREESHIP49 at checkout. Coupon code valid until 11:59 pm Eastern 11/13/2009. One coupon code per order, please.
- Overstock items are 25% off – click here to see: http://www.scrapyourtrip.com/sale11042009.html
- We’ve discontinued over 350 SYT Branded papers – marked down 25% off – click here to see: http://www.scrapyourtrip.com/papersale.html
- Lots of other items on clearance! Click here to see them all: http://www.scrapyourtrip.com/clearance.html
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