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'This is a complex book. It offers clarification and a sense of reassurance, but does not intend to provide answers, and is not for those seeking concrete direction. This will be a powerful read for many in a place of loss, chaos or existential angst' - Alison Cooper, Psychothearpy and Counselling Drawing on sources as diverse as medical and psychological theory, anthropology, religious and spiritual tradition, art and poetry, experienced psychotherapist Elizabeth Wilde McCormick explores the different elements of the edge - the images, dangers, safe places, and offers a unique handbook which charts that often lonely and alien territory.
Vulnerability
Vulnerability
Come into my most sacred place
Loot my abandoned dwelling
I've left myself to make myself acceptable
Coming to your house as your respectful guest
So the shell that is me is vacant and vulnerable
Most of all it is valueless
Because I have left it
I indiscriminately trade myself to make me lovable
Something so easily bartered must come cheap
And is treated so, transgressed against and violated
The issue of prostitution
It is a cruel irony that I give so much for want of love
To find myself horribly lost and without
Dimly I see the panic under which I function
The distance now grown between me and my home –
A sense of belonging
Moves towards reconciliation inspire panic and terror
Messages of compassion anger my suspicion
While my nerves screech with awakening intolerance
As the brutalisation of habitual street ...