"When we are face to face with those who are deeply wounded and suffering, there is opportunity to grieve together. Permitting ourselves to feel our grief and despair deeply, letting our hearts break, is necessary for moving through numbness and denial. Because we have already encountered one another, we can reach out in the hard and hurting times with compassionate, healing and life-giving responses. This transforms us, individually and collectively, opening the way for also experiencing joy in on another's good company".
Whitlock, K. (2004). Our enemies, ourselves. In E. Castelli, & J. Jakobsen (Eds.), Interventions: Activists and academics respond to violence (pp. 203). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
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