I first met Ross Laing when I was 13 years old.
I guess that would mean he was about my age now.
43 or 44 years old I think
My mother had died when I was nine and my father was left with me and my 2 sisters 7 and 11 yrs old.
We had gone to all kinds of counseling as my mother ailed and then died in only 6 month time.
After her death more and different council ensued.
But it was not until I met Ross that I had any sense of making sense of my grief and feelings at all.
I remember such deep relief
That this man saw me as a person. A fellow human.
Not as just a child. Not as someone less then he.
I felt seen in a way I had never felt seen before.
He acknowledged the magical world that I lived in
And because of his teachings I still do live in this world in touch with the magic and beauty of all that it is. His teachings grounded me. They kept me safe in this strange reality, the tools he taught me remind me I was and am perfect just where a I am.
No other therapist, councilor, psychiatrist or doctor has ever come close to understanding my most inner magical multi-verse.
No other healer in my life has ever taught me as much about how it is that I can heal my own self.
Power in this culture is twisted and corrupt and demented.
How we used it and abused it and re -traumatize ourselves and others , how we traumatize the world of life around us itself is astounding.
I have never in my 42 years met a man who has honored me and the life force of all beings as Ross Laing has.
In all my pain and despair and humanness.
All my joy and pleasure and talent.
I have returned to him as a teacher and friend again and again
Because he reminds me of my own inherent
abilities again and again.
Cora Simone
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