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and was treated with brilliant techniques like Neural Linguistic Programming and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy.
In 2004 I found a spiritual practice that suited me and put a shiny button on my carefully woven cloak of recovery. It taught me that I was one in all of creation with gifts no one else can give and that I have a divine purpose to fulfill here in my lifetime. There was nothing “wrong with me.” In other words, I matter...no matter what came before.
I met my first Wolf in 2008 by way of a shiny blue special construction motorcycle parked along the curb. It caught my eye and like a tractor beam I was drawn to it and met Paul, my two legged Wolf. At home he had two four legged Wolves, one an exquisite tricolor Alaskan Timberwolf named Alaska and an imposing, superior black beauty named Shadow. I can safely say without equivocation that seeing myself in the eyes of these three, felt like the first time I had ever really been seen. Those golden eyes looked into me, not at me and saw me...whole. It was then hard not to see myself that way too.
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