Renurturing
I used to publish Then & Now posts as part of my monthly newsletter, but in this world of short-and-sweet attention spans (don’t worry, I’m with you), I thought I’d do Then & Now posts as their own highlight.
These posts exemplify a small peek into what it is to Renurture yourself using The BeMo Practice. I take real-life accounts – word-for-word excerpts from journal entries I’ve written in the past (often prior to having created or utilized The BeMo Practice) –– to show a snapshot in growth time and the ebb and flow of my personal healing journey. This is a very brief journal entry made three years ago – after I had started The BeMo Practice but before I arrived at the final structure of the practice. Back then, I drew a grid to identify feelings, respond compassionately, list what I truly cared about, and remind myself what I knew. While I knew about Need Discovery as it relates to reparenting and attachment styles, I hadn’t adopted it into a daily practice, only a renurturing practice. As you can imagine, if you repeat the same storylines without Needs at the center of your practice, you know what that spells. Without centering on understanding the Needs narrative, I received information from repeated experiences and, yes, meeting those experiences differently, but I did not fully understand how to do it differently by setting or keeping boundaries.
Let’s dive in…
Three Years Ago Today
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Cassandra "Caz" Stark 