March 20th, 2017
The beauty of a narrative is that it allows us to tie all of the changes in our life into a broad comprehensive story. That in the same story we can talk both about the cause and the event and its many implications. Much as in any story there can be overaching themes, plots and subplots – many of them arranged logically and/or hierarchically. Through this process the many facets of the presumed single event are organised into a more coherent whole’ (Form Forming a Story: The Health Benefits of Narrative, James Pennebaker and Janel Seagal, Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol. 55(10)
The sparrow that wanted to be free….. Tonya Kyriazi-Alexandri
This post today is my response to the ongoing and more intense stalking I have been experiencing since I made public my intention to upload the little story and series of drawings I made to complement it, when I decided to create better quality prints of the drawings in a local shop. People mostly unknown to me have asked about my age, employment status, religion and nationality or commented on my weight loss and so on. It has taken place in the movie theatre, on the boat, in the street and in shops. Recently a young woman sitting next to me in the cinema shouted obscenities out of the blue during the film! I thought the previous post on abuse and bullying by proxy and flying monkeys would send a message, but it seems that flying monkeys lack both empathy and ethos, and perhaps the capacity to process their actions and intentions. However, today after returning from a trip to Athens, where I had gone to visit the doctor and nutritionist to address my weight loss and vitamin difficiencies, I decided that I could post small copies of the drawings, and also, announce that I will soon upload both the verbal narrative and the artwork in book form, like I had previously uploaded Let me be. So, this post is my response and act of boundary setting, for as Dana Morningstar says ‘The compassionate, caring and cooperative people of the world must set boundaries because the controlling and selfish people of the world will steamroll over us if we don’t’ (From START HERE: Crash Course in Understanding, Navigating and Healing from Narcissist Abuse by Dana Morningstar)
