Eight Days of Healing

We, the novices were privileged to journey through an eight-day group therapy from 14^th to 21^st November 2014 here at the novitiate. Sr. Mercy Thennattil, from the Congregation of the Holy Cross, guided us through these days. It was a time of grace for each one of us to know one’s ‘self’, to go deep into one’s past, heal one’s wounds and thus begin anew with new energy and vision in life. The therapy helped to patch up one’s life which was wounded by our past negative experiences. Just like a plant which has to go through different stages like cleaning, digging, weeding, watering before it bears good fruit, in the same way from the first day till the last day we were guided by Sr. Mercy to dig deep into ourselves and discover many things about ourselves. We identified ourselves with different symbols which helped us to know our present self as to what process we are presently undergoing in our life.

Group Therapy

Sr. Mercy also tried to make us understand how precious our life is, by giving different examples like, the kite which symbolizes our life. We have to fly our own kite high up in the sky and never allow the string to be controlled by others. Most of the times we allow the external environment to take control over us, and as a result we forget about our own feelings and desires and tend to be people whose lives are totally controlled by others. Sometimes we can be like the sponge, just as it absorbs every liquid and dirt in which it is placed, we too, in life try to pick up everything around us, and mostly the negative part and fail to see the good that lies deep within us. We create a boundary wall around us with all types of fears that never allow us to move forward in life and never allow others to come close to us. To get rid of all this we have to be people who are open, assertive and balanced in everything, ready to accept and see the positive and the negative of everything. This will help us to be people who make a difference in this world.

We owe a deep sense of gratitude to the Mumbai Province, in particular our dear Mother Provincial and Sr. Anelfreda Miranda our novice directress for offering us this unique opportunity.