Comments on: On The Way to Becoming A Healer: The Journey of a Young Social Worker http://www.wordsaremedicine.com/2010/02/06/on-the-way-to-becoming-a-healer-the-journey-of-a-young-social-worker/ The Site for Verbal First Aid Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:03:10 +0000 hourly 1 By: Judith Acosta http://www.wordsaremedicine.com/2010/02/06/on-the-way-to-becoming-a-healer-the-journey-of-a-young-social-worker/#comment-142 Judith Acosta Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:28:59 +0000 http://www.wordsaremedicine.com/?p=937#comment-142 You're right. There is a definite difference between being present in the Spirit and proselytizing. I don't see anything necessarily wrong with talking about God, though. I bring it up a lot. If it's not in the client's agenda, then that's that. But for most people, it is and they rarely get a chance to speak their feelings on the matter without feeling judged. You're right. There is a definite difference between being present in the Spirit and proselytizing. I don't see anything necessarily wrong with talking about God, though. I bring it up a lot. If it's not in the client's agenda, then that's that. But for most people, it is and they rarely get a chance to speak their feelings on the matter without feeling judged.

]]> By: Samuel Quiles http://www.wordsaremedicine.com/2010/02/06/on-the-way-to-becoming-a-healer-the-journey-of-a-young-social-worker/#comment-141 Samuel Quiles Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:05:16 +0000 http://www.wordsaremedicine.com/?p=937#comment-141 Thank you, thank you. Prescence is so unspoken about and it definitely requires the use of the self in the therapeutic relationship. A true relationship requires all of you in it and cannot be faked. One is either in the moment with the client or one is not there!!! I truly agree on the need to bring spirit into it. Although I do not evangelize my patients I make sure "the sprit" is with me. Gee, you know my old chaplain in the 80's Dr. Joel Harvey used to say, "Sam, I know you even pray over door knobs." I still do! Thank you, thank you. Prescence is so unspoken about and it definitely requires the use of the self in the therapeutic relationship. A true relationship requires all of you in it and cannot be faked. One is either in the moment with the client or one is not there!!!

I truly agree on the need to bring spirit into it. Although I do not evangelize my patients I make sure "the sprit" is with me. Gee, you know my old chaplain in the 80's Dr. Joel Harvey used to say, "Sam, I know you even pray over door knobs." I still do!

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