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\nBeing together in a way that makes ourselves available to one another is what we're made for, and is among the most simple and most difficult things we'll ever do. So how do we create the safety and openness in our own way of being that allows us to be deeply connected to and available for others? What does it take to create the kind of relationship with our own bodies that can be a ground of safety for all the parts of us that get afraid and want to run? How can our 'yes' to staying in contact be a real yes, and our 'no' be a real no too, so that when we're with one another we're really with one another? And how can we make encountering one another's depth as ordinary as sitting together with a cup of tea?
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\nThis week's Turning Towards Life is hosted as always by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.
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\nTurning Towards Life, a week-by-week conversation inviting us deeply into our lives, is a live 30 minute conversation hosted by Justin Wise and Lizzie Winn of Thirdspace.\xa0 Find us on FaceBook to watch live and join in the lively conversation on this episode. You can find videos of every episode, and more about the project on the Turning Towards Life website, and you can also watch and listen on Instagram, YouTube, and as a podcast on Apple, Google, Amazon Music and Spotify.
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\nHere's our source for this week:
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\nThe Body in Relationship
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\nYou sit before me,\xa0
\nBody open,
\nYour eyes meet mine.\xa0
\nMy deepest wish,\xa0
\nTo make contact,\xa0
\nTo come to intimately know you.
\nAnd as I reach for you,\xa0
\nI see that I must reach for me first,\xa0
\nThat without me, I can\u2019t truly be with you.\xa0
\nFirst, it has to start here,\xa0
\nContact with this body I have,\xa0
\nTeeming with senses, feeling and wisdom.\xa0
\nAnd as I make contact here,\xa0
\nSuddenly I\u2019m confident, settled
\nReady to be with you.\xa0
\nAnd stay here,\xa0
\nBecause my body is home,\xa0
\nAnd I can welcome you.\xa0
\nAnd when we do this for each other,\xa0
\nWe dance between the houses,\xa0
\nLiving in community.\xa0
\nAlways welcome,\xa0
\nAt each others\u2019 table,\xa0
\nWe share tea and life.\xa0
\nAnd all the depths,\xa0
\nAnd shallows,\xa0
\nAre made normal just like our tea.\xa0
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\nLizzie Winn
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\nPhoto by Lizzie Winn