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This is part two of a three-part series called Loving Ourselves Into Healing.

And I wanted to start with a story I heard many years ago that's always stayed with me.

It's about a four-year-old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who

was recently widowed. His wife had just died.

One day, the little boy noticed that the man was outside on his porch crying.

So he went into his yard and climbed onto his lap and just sat there.

And his mother looked over and saw her son and the old man sitting together and when the

child came home, his mom asked what he had said to the neighbor.

And he said, I didn't say anything.

I just helped him to cry.

And I so often think about how the very essence of loving into healing really, it's the

quality of presence that we offer.

The quality of presence that we offer.

It's really about presence.

I read David Brooks article recently and he told a story that was actually first shared

by Rabbi Iliot Kukla and the rabbi described a woman with a brain injury who would sometimes

fall to the ground.

And people would rush to immediately get her back up on her feet before she was quite

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