Hello once again dear HSP friends and colleagues,
As much as I do LOVE empowering HSPs through my HSP Gathering Retreat work, I must admit that what I like least is the multitude of details that come with the organization part of the job. And each year, just before I hop on a plane to facilitate a HSP Gathering Retreat for four days (overstimulating as I think of it !) I always find myself asking ~ in HSP pause and check fashion ~ "Now why am I doing this?"
Then, much to my delighted surprise I get emails like the one I received today. Once again I feel blessed and inspired that I was given the vision of these fantastic HSP Gathering Retreats some ten years ago. Suddenly the frustration of handling specifics and details (not my forte) all fade away.
So, I just had to share this wonderfully kind, supportive, and uplifting email from a HSP who attended her first HSP Gathering last Sept 2010 at Walker Creek Ranch in Petaluma, California. Here it is:
Dear Jacquelyn,
"I was just reading your email about the Gathering in Massachusetts, and I'm not able to come, but I was inspired to write to you to say that I realize, in reading it, how much it has changed me and changed my life to have come to the Gathering this past September. at Walker Creek Ranch. To be with other HSP's, to feel so well understood in that group, something I'd never experienced to that extent in any group, to be reminded again and again that if something felt uncomfortable, I didn't have to do it, and no-one would look askance at me or say I was "too sensitive" - it was a life-changing experience. Reading Elaine's book on The Highly Sensitive Person was a life-changing experience, of couse. But so was the Retreat, bringing all those ideas home in a different way, through experience, conversation, our shared appreciation of beauty, just feeling the similar kind of energy that we all had. Thank again, Jacquelyn, months later, for a wonderful, amazing experience." K.B. Berkeley, California
Oh, what a lovely feeling to internalize and incorporate into the rest of my day and weekend. I shall remember this (and all the other kind compliments) the next time I find myself complaining about the details.
With gratitude and love,
Jacquelyn