Following our second US workshop in NYC with Althea Hayton on May 16, 2009, we are launching this new project to be known as wombtwin.us. For background information, just click on these links:
Wombtwin.com headquarters website
Althea's research website
If you're interested in helping us develop this project, please email me.
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Thursday, May 21, 2009
A new initiative for wombtwin survivors in the USA
Following our second US workshop in NYC with Althea Hayton on May 16, 2009, we are launching this new project to be known as wombtwin.us. For background information, just click on these links:
Wombtwin.com headquarters website
Althea's research website
If you're interested in helping us develop this project, please email me.
Wombtwin.com headquarters website
Althea's research website
If you're interested in helping us develop this project, please email me.
4 comments:
Hi Monica and All,
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Sorry for the late post. I lost my twin at birth and can RELATE TOTALLY to what you write about. At mid-life, I am just now starting to understand why losing her has had such a profound impact on my life. It explains a lot of things I've always wondered about. When I read Althea's questionnaire, it all began to fit - she's describing me! Since that time, I knew I HAD TO puruse this and know more.
I still grieve for her even after all these years have passed. Wow!
It's hard work trying to figure out this stuff and move forward. My family thinks I should be over this by now. Not! They have no clue what it's like to be a twin. Wish I had more support from them. Sometimes, I'm impatient and want this to be resolved "yesterday". Yet, despite all of this, I know I'm doing the right thing by trying to "resolve" this. Can't wait to unload this baggage!
Clutter and relating to other people intimately have been challenging for me...anyone else experience the same thing?
Thank you, Althea for your research in this area. And, thank you Monica for this blog! It is needed!So many of us have intimacy and clutter issues. Have you seen the Hoarding show on A&E? These people have a "dis-ease" and it's called being a WOMBTWIN SURVIVOR! It's like we need enough stuff for ourself & our lost twin (or multiple)but then can't get rid of it due to separation anxiety/survivor guilt. What a trap! Tune in and be horrified, let it inspire you to heal and be free of this affliction which can get so extreme:
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"Hoarders" on A&E®- AETV.com
Don't Miss the All-New Series About Compulsive Hoarding-Mondays 10/9CA poem by LindaBeth, wombtwin survivor from Canada:
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BLACK AND WHITE
Black and white
Together
We knew
Each other.
One alive
And
One without
A heart beat
And
In the
Light of
Life
Darkness became
Known,
A bond
Still acknowledged
Yet
In that darkness
Her gifts
Were given,
Our love
Shared
And
In the sharing,
Honouring
Connecting
Our life
Beyond death
Eternally felt
And
Realized
By the one
Still here
And
The one
Long gone.
Honouring life
Well known
And
In that absence
There is a familiar
Presence.Hello all,
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I must preface my entry with this simple statement. I am what is termed a "healthy skeptic". Translated it simply means I accept the possibility of all things, just not their probability.
That said, when I first heard about womb twin loss I questioned the validity of the concept, but was intrigued enough to keep an open mind about it. So with an invitation from a loved friend I attended Althea's first U.S. workshop in NYC.
After listening to her most excellent, educational and scientifically backed presentation I was amazed to discover that I was quite possibly the sole survivor of a multiple pregnancy. According to Althea's findings I had all the earmarks of a survivor. I did my best to poke holes in her assumptions over lunch. Althea won.
What amazed me in both Althea's approach as well as my own response to this discovery was that I was not handed a bundle of "New Age" excuses for everything that had ever gone wrong in my life, but instead discovered a kind of owner's manual on Me.
The why's and wherefore's of how I move through the world were suddenly clear. Answers to questions I'd long given up as never to be found were made clear. The change in me was instantaneous. I finally understood a great many things about myself.
Most important was the fact that the small sadness that I carried around with me my entire life that I would humorously attribute my Irishness was gone. The wind no longer made lonely sounds as it coursed through that hole in me.
At times I do still feel lonely, but never to the extent that I once did. In other words, it's no longer an almost crippling emptiness. It now takes the form of a more manageable experience not unlike what most people feel occasionally.
My experience of instant healing seems to be exceedingly rare, but then again I never did have the good sense to stay down when knocked on my bum.
I am thankful for having had the good fortune to have both met and bumped heads with Althea Hayton. May all have as enlightening a journey as I.
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Hi Monica and All,
ReplyDeleteSorry for the late post. I lost my twin at birth and can RELATE TOTALLY to what you write about. At mid-life, I am just now starting to understand why losing her has had such a profound impact on my life. It explains a lot of things I've always wondered about. When I read Althea's questionnaire, it all began to fit - she's describing me! Since that time, I knew I HAD TO puruse this and know more.
I still grieve for her even after all these years have passed. Wow!
It's hard work trying to figure out this stuff and move forward. My family thinks I should be over this by now. Not! They have no clue what it's like to be a twin. Wish I had more support from them. Sometimes, I'm impatient and want this to be resolved "yesterday". Yet, despite all of this, I know I'm doing the right thing by trying to "resolve" this. Can't wait to unload this baggage!
Clutter and relating to other people intimately have been challenging for me...anyone else experience the same thing?
Thank you, Althea for your research in this area. And, thank you Monica for this blog! It is needed!
So many of us have intimacy and clutter issues. Have you seen the Hoarding show on A&E? These people have a "dis-ease" and it's called being a WOMBTWIN SURVIVOR! It's like we need enough stuff for ourself & our lost twin (or multiple)but then can't get rid of it due to separation anxiety/survivor guilt. What a trap! Tune in and be horrified, let it inspire you to heal and be free of this affliction which can get so extreme:
ReplyDelete"Hoarders" on A&E®- AETV.com
Don't Miss the All-New Series About Compulsive Hoarding-Mondays 10/9C
A poem by LindaBeth, wombtwin survivor from Canada:
ReplyDeleteBLACK AND WHITE
Black and white
Together
We knew
Each other.
One alive
And
One without
A heart beat
And
In the
Light of
Life
Darkness became
Known,
A bond
Still acknowledged
Yet
In that darkness
Her gifts
Were given,
Our love
Shared
And
In the sharing,
Honouring
Connecting
Our life
Beyond death
Eternally felt
And
Realized
By the one
Still here
And
The one
Long gone.
Honouring life
Well known
And
In that absence
There is a familiar
Presence.
Hello all,
ReplyDeleteI must preface my entry with this simple statement. I am what is termed a "healthy skeptic". Translated it simply means I accept the possibility of all things, just not their probability.
That said, when I first heard about womb twin loss I questioned the validity of the concept, but was intrigued enough to keep an open mind about it. So with an invitation from a loved friend I attended Althea's first U.S. workshop in NYC.
After listening to her most excellent, educational and scientifically backed presentation I was amazed to discover that I was quite possibly the sole survivor of a multiple pregnancy. According to Althea's findings I had all the earmarks of a survivor. I did my best to poke holes in her assumptions over lunch. Althea won.
What amazed me in both Althea's approach as well as my own response to this discovery was that I was not handed a bundle of "New Age" excuses for everything that had ever gone wrong in my life, but instead discovered a kind of owner's manual on Me.
The why's and wherefore's of how I move through the world were suddenly clear. Answers to questions I'd long given up as never to be found were made clear. The change in me was instantaneous. I finally understood a great many things about myself.
Most important was the fact that the small sadness that I carried around with me my entire life that I would humorously attribute my Irishness was gone. The wind no longer made lonely sounds as it coursed through that hole in me.
At times I do still feel lonely, but never to the extent that I once did. In other words, it's no longer an almost crippling emptiness. It now takes the form of a more manageable experience not unlike what most people feel occasionally.
My experience of instant healing seems to be exceedingly rare, but then again I never did have the good sense to stay down when knocked on my bum.
I am thankful for having had the good fortune to have both met and bumped heads with Althea Hayton. May all have as enlightening a journey as I.