Hazel, greetings from Bulgaria! I have found you just recently but have been through most of your videos already. I honestly think your content should be taught in schools! As a mother of a former (thank God!) self-harming daughter and fighting with panic attacks and anxiety myself, I can confirm there are thousands of people who can and should benefit from such knowledge and tools. Thanks for being there for those in need!
Thank you so much for this lovely comment! I really appreciate the support. And I absolutely agree that more of this type of content should be taught in schools. Tools for emotion regulation, mindfulness, self-awareness, etc. can be so simple to learn, and so, so powerful to possess. It’s a shame we leave this stuff for later - when we’ve already hit breaking point and found ourselves in therapy 💔
The story of my life is creating, caring, and fun! It feels so... so empowering to say that!!! My whole life I've felt like who I am and who I need to be are at odds. But the more I think about it, who I am is who I need to be!!! I do realize however there is a want for more grounded energy, so this creating, caring and fun having can be sustainable and safe. These realizations make me so happy! Thank you Hazel 🙏🏻🥹❤️
The story of my Life is Playfulness, Care& Cure and Creative expression. This feels so meaningful. I very much feel now, what authenticity is! Thankyou so much. This is a huge insight for me. I am resonating with my authenticity Now!
What an eye opening exercise. My themes are courage, compassionate service, and safe refuge (for self and others). I could find several story lines from the ground all the way to the seeds, but no connection at all to my roots. I see that as an invitation to rethink what my roots really are.
My life is about learning facts, tending young innocent beings, making things to cover bare skin and bare walls out of plant and animal fibers, and practicing ahimsa (non-harming) to the greatest extent possible. Very nice exercise, Hazel. We can get so preoccupied with continuously improving ourselves that we forget about the improvements we've already made, or the good stuff we were born with.
Yes! That’s such a lovely way of looking at this. We can obsess over our goals (and the sense of lack that inspires them) ad infinitum, but we rarely celebrate those goals once they’ve been met. Thanks for this comment! 🖤
This exercise reminded me of what I've been working on in therapy lately which is that I focus too much on the very negative experiences of my life that have left a boiling rage and sadness inside me. It's important to remember them and process them but I shouldn't ruminate and let them shape my future. It was easy to see the negative connections from root to tip but not as easy to see the positive ones and I'm going to work on that. Thank you. 😊
Hazel I find myself looking forward to your next RUclips . my journey through the Betwixt narrative cracked the door into a unexpected shadow world that I am now engaging. It also initiated my exploration in to Integral Theory . I find your exercises are complimentary as i work through the cleaning up, showing up, and opening up stages. Peace & Light be with you.
the idea then, is to maybe push through to the branches and change the appearance of bleakness, and maybe start adding color, changes of shape and texture, and more light to illustrate something other than bleakness. We all can always try, and if one illustration is not enough try again. You have the power of the pen. and in your life.
Hey, Hazel. I've figured it out (I think). I'm really focused on the fruits and the leaves and the branches and the seeds. Very much forward-looking. I remember a job/ project interview in which an ophthalmology professor asked me what I was most proud of, of the things that I have done. I realized that I don't think that way at all. I'm always eager for the future. Impatient. But also very much in the here and now and when the here and now sucks, I really want the future. (Also, perhaps absence of ego, to a degree. Zen-like.) I am going to visit the grave soon of a distant family member. I discovered some things about her recently and I think it's important for me to pay her my respects. Even deceased, she's possibly a person who can ground me to the past a bit better, in a better, more empowering way. (She went to university. So did I. It made us oddballs in our family. She may have been quite similar to me. She was in a different field but did similar things.) My childhood had too much death and disease and challenges in it, maybe, for me still wanting that be at my roots.
Oh, yes! I’m so glad it helped you in that way. I also felt moved when adding my dad (who passed away over ten years ago) to my tree as a beautiful pear 🍐 while proofing this video last week. It’s so important to give those we’ve lost that kind of time and space 🤍
@@Betwixt_App Schopenhauer was a miserable w⚓, same as Nietzsche and Heidegger, that branch of philosophy should get hacked off and burnt😂. Fun is so much more than just a giggle, or some chemical release of stress, its an analogue needle of individual and collectives interior mapping of reality. People laugh and have fun at horrible racist and murderous acts, like a hundred thousand Israeli mocking dead babies and children in telegram, fun is a meta channel that had been commodified in capitalism, so people watch unfunny comedians and TV shows that serve as a masturbatory bloodletting with laugh tracks triggers, humanity is under siege and the fun needle in social is empty, replaced with drugs, porn, content farms, degenerate behaviour and last but not least, capitalism a capstone 😂
This was an absolutely helpful exercise! Although I will have to do it again because I had not enough Space to write everything on the leaves and branches, fruits and flowers. But still it was very clear how the roots influenced me. And also I realized how the RUclipsrs I watch also inspired me so much in my live. Just a real good exercise. I will recommend it to others. Thank you!🙏🫶
Ah, I’m so glad you enjoyed it!! And yes, we really need big trees if we’re to do this properly 😂 It’s a lovely thing to save and add to over the years! 🤍
Hazel, greetings from Bulgaria! I have found you just recently but have been through most of your videos already. I honestly think your content should be taught in schools! As a mother of a former (thank God!) self-harming daughter and fighting with panic attacks and anxiety myself, I can confirm there are thousands of people who can and should benefit from such knowledge and tools. Thanks for being there for those in need!
Thank you so much for this lovely comment! I really appreciate the support.
And I absolutely agree that more of this type of content should be taught in schools. Tools for emotion regulation, mindfulness, self-awareness, etc. can be so simple to learn, and so, so powerful to possess. It’s a shame we leave this stuff for later - when we’ve already hit breaking point and found ourselves in therapy 💔
Oh, and did you know that my co-founder at Betwixt is Bulgarian? Ellie - Elitsa Dermendzhiyska - lives in Sofia 🖤
That’s awesome! Long live both of you, ladies! 🙏🏻
It helped ...inspite of challenges I choose to be articulate, discreet, creative, kind , skilled, a learner, I choose solitude too ...thank you
These are some wonderful themes!! 🖤
The story of my life is creating, caring, and fun!
It feels so... so empowering to say that!!!
My whole life I've felt like who I am and who I need to be are at odds. But the more I think about it, who I am is who I need to be!!!
I do realize however there is a want for more grounded energy, so this creating, caring and fun having can be sustainable and safe.
These realizations make me so happy!
Thank you Hazel 🙏🏻🥹❤️
Ooooh!! That was so special to read. “Who I am is who I need to be”!! You’re damn right!!! 💯🖤💯🖤💯🖤💯🖤💯
Fun is truth
The story of my Life is Playfulness, Care& Cure and Creative expression.
This feels so meaningful. I very much feel now, what authenticity is!
Thankyou so much. This is a huge insight for me. I am resonating with my authenticity Now!
Oh, this is wonderful!! 🤩
What an eye opening exercise. My themes are courage, compassionate service, and safe refuge (for self and others). I could find several story lines from the ground all the way to the seeds, but no connection at all to my roots. I see that as an invitation to rethink what my roots really are.
Oh, I love that. Yes!
My life is about learning facts, tending young innocent beings, making things to cover bare skin and bare walls out of plant and animal fibers, and practicing ahimsa (non-harming) to the greatest extent possible.
Very nice exercise, Hazel. We can get so preoccupied with continuously improving ourselves that we forget about the improvements we've already made, or the good stuff we were born with.
Yes! That’s such a lovely way of looking at this. We can obsess over our goals (and the sense of lack that inspires them) ad infinitum, but we rarely celebrate those goals once they’ve been met. Thanks for this comment! 🖤
This exercise reminded me of what I've been working on in therapy lately which is that I focus too much on the very negative experiences of my life that have left a boiling rage and sadness inside me. It's important to remember them and process them but I shouldn't ruminate and let them shape my future. It was easy to see the negative connections from root to tip but not as easy to see the positive ones and I'm going to work on that. Thank you. 😊
You. Are. Bloody. Brilliant! ❤
Oh, thank you! 😍
Thank you I really needed this
Inspiring
You’re so welcome!
Thank you, Hazel. This has come just at the right time for me, as usual with your shares. 🙏🏼
I’m so glad! 🙌🏼
Thank you, very interesting. Love from beautiful Italy! ❤
Thank you! Love back (from _rainy_ England) 🤍
Hazel I find myself looking forward to your next RUclips . my journey through the Betwixt narrative cracked the door into a unexpected shadow world that I am now engaging. It also initiated my exploration in to Integral Theory . I find your exercises are complimentary as i work through the cleaning up, showing up, and opening up stages. Peace & Light be with you.
Thank you so much. This is a really lovely comment to read. I’m very happy to help 🤍
the story of my life is about laughter, expression and freedom
I love that!! 🤍
In a word fun😂
It is worth considering that this exercise may not be beneficial for some, as it may all too clearly illustrate how bleak one’s life is and has been.
the idea then, is to maybe push through to the branches and change the appearance of bleakness, and maybe start adding color, changes of shape and texture, and more light to illustrate something other than bleakness. We all can always try, and if one illustration is not enough try again. You have the power of the pen. and in your life.
Hey, Hazel. I've figured it out (I think). I'm really focused on the fruits and the leaves and the branches and the seeds. Very much forward-looking. I remember a job/ project interview in which an ophthalmology professor asked me what I was most proud of, of the things that I have done. I realized that I don't think that way at all. I'm always eager for the future. Impatient. But also very much in the here and now and when the here and now sucks, I really want the future.
(Also, perhaps absence of ego, to a degree. Zen-like.)
I am going to visit the grave soon of a distant family member. I discovered some things about her recently and I think it's important for me to pay her my respects. Even deceased, she's possibly a person who can ground me to the past a bit better, in a better, more empowering way.
(She went to university. So did I. It made us oddballs in our family. She may have been quite similar to me. She was in a different field but did similar things.)
My childhood had too much death and disease and challenges in it, maybe, for me still wanting that be at my roots.
I did it! The tree was fun. It made me feel less alone given death and people moving since Covid etc. I am still changed because of them.
Oh, yes! I’m so glad it helped you in that way. I also felt moved when adding my dad (who passed away over ten years ago) to my tree as a beautiful pear 🍐 while proofing this video last week. It’s so important to give those we’ve lost that kind of time and space 🤍
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My name means willow tree❤
Lovely! My name (Hazel Gale) means “small nut tree, big wind” 😂
Overcoming, Creativity and Independence ...does it change?
Would you want it to?
@@Betwixt_App Overcoming and Independence, yes.
Look at all the comments, one thing persists through them all, "FUN" without fun life has no meaning Schopenhauer 😂
Ha! Yes, and good!!
@@Betwixt_App Schopenhauer was a miserable w⚓, same as Nietzsche and Heidegger, that branch of philosophy should get hacked off and burnt😂. Fun is so much more than just a giggle, or some chemical release of stress, its an analogue needle of individual and collectives interior mapping of reality. People laugh and have fun at horrible racist and murderous acts, like a hundred thousand Israeli mocking dead babies and children in telegram, fun is a meta channel that had been commodified in capitalism, so people watch unfunny comedians and TV shows that serve as a masturbatory bloodletting with laugh tracks triggers, humanity is under siege and the fun needle in social is empty, replaced with drugs, porn, content farms, degenerate behaviour and last but not least, capitalism a capstone 😂
This was an absolutely helpful exercise! Although I will have to do it again because I had not enough Space to write everything on the leaves and branches, fruits and flowers.
But still it was very clear how the roots influenced me. And also I realized how the RUclipsrs I watch also inspired me so much in my live. Just a real good exercise. I will recommend it to others. Thank you!🙏🫶
Ah, I’m so glad you enjoyed it!!
And yes, we really need big trees if we’re to do this properly 😂
It’s a lovely thing to save and add to over the years! 🤍