Answers to questions posed to codependency therapist, inner child healing pioneer, Spiritual teacher Robert Burney via e
Answers to questions posed to codependency therapist, inner child healing pioneer, Spiritual teacher Robert Burney via e-mail or Suite101 Discussion threads.
Periodically, in the e-mail I receive from people who have discovered my site, I am asked why I don’t have - or it is suggested that a good addition to the web site would be - a forum or chat room or some similar type of discussion area. This is something I tried in my early days on the internet in the form of an e-mailing list - and something I won’t be doing again. It just takes too much time and energy to monitor this type of thing. I already spend a minimum of 10 hours a week just answering e-mail, and I just don’t have time to monitor an area of the site that would be open to anyone posting their thoughts or questions. One of the realities of the internet is there are a lot of people out there who are quick to share opinions that are based in ignorance. The e-mailing list I had about 6 years ago was supposed to be only for people who resonated with the writing on my web site - but people who had never read a word of my site would think nothing of throwing their completely uninformed or unrelated opinions into the mix. There are also some very sick and twisted people out there on the web, who will post mean and abusive; or obscene; or bigoted; or otherwise inappropriate; opinions. Anyone who has a forum type of discussion list needs to be closely monitoring the postings to delete some of the outrageous things certain people will post - and I just do not have the time or the inclination. However I do sometimes wish I had a way to share some of the answers to questions I get by e-mail. I, in fact, had a series of question and answer pages on my original web site in 1998 - and those pages are still online Question and Answer pages of Joy to You & Me (some sections of which grew into web articles on Joy2MeU.) There is also a discussion area on my topic page at Suite 101 (Inner Child/Codependency Recovery.) It was in fact several resent answers I wrote for that discussion area that prompted me to add this page to the site. That discussion area is one that I don’t have time to visit very often, and one in which I encourage people to e-mail me directly for a prompter response than posting there will get them. It is subject to some of the same problems I refer to above - i.e. ignorant opinions etc. - and I do not get involved in those discussions to any great extent. I do write some fairly long answers occasionally however - and I thought several recent ones were valuable enough to share here on the site. Thus this new page. I will probably be adding answers I give either on that discussion list, or to e-mail questions in the form of new web pages periodically. For now I am starting off with several answers I posted to questions on that discussion page. ~ Robert 1/12/05
Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls by Robert Burney is copyright 1995. Material on Joy2MeU web site (except where otherwise noted) is copyright 1996 thru 2008 by Robert Burney PO Box 235401 Encinitas CA 92023.
Originally published at https://joy2meu.com/suite101_discussions.htm