Innerwords Newsletter: The Power of Writing Your Healing Story

I have been fortunate to have Suzanne as a key member of my personal support system to heal childhood wounds and transform my adult life, as needed, over the past 30 years. Very early in our relationship, Suzanne encouraged me to begin journal writing the significant challenges and “ah-ha” moments as my journey to change my life unfolded. Over time, this one tool has borne out to be totally life changing. My notes and journal entries gradually became potent seeds for stories and articles. Today, those stories and articles have become my first published book, Call Me Victoria: Life Poems and Stories from Trial to Triumph.

My consistency with the process of the raw writing, purely for the purpose of reflection and processing my emotions in moments of my experiences was a pivotal key to my receiving the greatest life-changing gifts it has had to offer. This is because the longevity has given me a broad and open perspective of the repeating patterns in my life. The ability to see the patterns of the same challenges coming up over and over, again gave me the strongest chance make changes to my perspectives and behaviors in the repeating patterns. The change in my behavior, in turn, began to vastly improve the quality of my daily relationships and success in my life overall.

One beautiful awareness I discovered about how my life patterns work is that the feeling qualities of my most significant life events tend to repeat in cycles like the seasons. Each time the similar feelings of a particular life event come around, it is a little adjusted or a little lighter, influenced by what I’ve learned about how to deal with it better. One powerful example I have of this comes from my conception and birth. Because birth is literally the event that launches us into every other experience we have in our lives, this event tends to be significant for most people, even if there is not conscious awareness of it.

In my case, I was born with Spastic Cerebral Palsy, so how I was born influenced everything about my life. When I first started to learn to track the correspondence between qualities in my life experiences and my birthday, I could anticipate it being quite intense, and yet profoundly revealing about what I could do next to improve my life. I learned to look forward to October every year to celebrate this most important day in my life, yes, but especially to see what next new pearl of understanding be revealed in the new cycle of my life pattern.

I was born at seven months gestation. Through research and learning about my prenatal dynamics, I determined my conception date was March 21, 1962. The first radio interview I ever did, based on the impacts of birth, was on March 21, 2004. This year, on March 21, 2013, I completed the second radio interview I’ve ever done to air March 23; it was the first interview about my book. When I got my first copy of the published book, I had visions that interviews like this were possible. The actual experience of the chance to tell my story knowing that people can listen around the world has been an incredible dream come true.

Considering this, it is easy to see that repeating patterns are not necessarily challenging. I have come to know that as we grow in understanding about how our life works, the patterns which once seemed to represent our most impossible challenges can become experiences of pure synchronicity and grace.

Vicky Jeter, RSc.P is a practitioner of the Science of Mind teaching of 23 years. She teaches classes and facilitates workshops on a wide range of themes related to living with intention and becoming free to live the life we choose. She also works with people on an individual appointment basis. Her book web page is at www.callmevictoria.com. To hear the interview about her story was with the Crescent Hill internet radio show, “Keep Hearing Voices,” March 23, 2013, www.callmevictoria.com/radio.html