Re: intensive anxiety program - My story:-)

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hi STAN:-)

thanks again for ur wonderful post. it was actually a great reminder about what

ACT teaches us, so jazakallah khair.

as far as us being diff. yet very similar ,i love what u wrote here

>I admire the way, like me, you struggle to become a full and loving >human

being..... we both have challenges in our lives that we >struggle to deal with.

We both feel the same joys and feel the same >pain.

this is EXACTLY how i view the world and c people. If i look at differences then

to tall ya the truth, myself and my siblings don't have too much in common

except the fact that we have the same parents and share the same " religious

values " ...

so religious background, sexual oreintation, culture, tthese r all diffences .

no doubt, but it's more of a diff way in how we lead our lives privately.

If i tell u about myself u might wonder if i am a talibaan;)...i wear a

headscarf, used to wear a black clock b4, but from much racial attacks stopped

wearing it, my kids go to private islamic skools, in day to day lives there a

lotta things we do, how we mingle, how we r when around opp gender, one can say

is sorta diff from american culture. but once again this is diffences. in

lifestyles (i believe ).

as human beings we all share a lotta common values. and that is enough reason to

be able to bond and connect with each other.

i actually have a close freind i care about deraly whom i befreinded at another

therapy here, she is transgender, used to b catholic when she was a kid, but

now an atheirst, and she works in the porn industry. to tell ya the truth, at

face value we r from 2 opps ends, BUT i enjoy chatting with her coz she values

some of the same things in life like me, she values happiness, she values

laughter (btw she is hilarious in a sarcastic sense), she values love an being

loved, also we share a lotta the same struggles, anxiety being one:-), so i

connect really well with her too.

So to me it deson't really havta be an obvious similairty to connect with

someone, if its something rooted deep in ur heart that u value too, i'll get it

out and make that a good enouh reason for me to bond:-)

wasalaam