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ARRIVAL: 01.30.2007 - 09:20 - United States of America
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Thank you SOOO Much...I do not know what to Say
Hello Sunnie and the ENTIRE Life Group,
You know it has been a week since the Weekend Seminar. I am still floating so to speak. You, Ric, Chris, John, Rob ad Lon to name a few people were there for me when I felt alone, scared and ashamed.
Chris set me up with a support group. I went to it this past Thursday. They made me feel so welcomed and like I belonged.
I now know being HIV + is not a death sentence. I know the mistakes I have made in my past and I take full responsibility for the choices that I have made. I know not to look in the past and live in regret, but rather live with a new out look on life and a new choice in life.
One thing I took home with me and I say to myself every day is “I AM NOT HIV, I AM "C". I AM NOT GOING TO LET A VIRUS DEFINE ME, I AM GOING TO DEFINE ME”
There is still so much that I cannot put in words what the Life Group has done for me and what I came out of last weekend.
Everyone there has in my eyes saved my life so to speak. I was so lost and now all I can say is I know I am now found within me a new person.
The Life Group has done so much for me in such a short amount of time. I know that I am lucky in so many aspects, because I was willing to seek help rather then sitting at home debating wheter or not to open a bottle of pills. Being able to get the support early on has helped me SOOO much.
Thank you again for what you and everyone have done.
Thank you
C.
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ARRIVAL: 01.29.2007 - 09:54 - United States of America
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Sunnie,
Yes...recovered fine. I think it's easy to become sleep-deprived throughout the process. It would be nice to have gone to bed at a decent time during the weekend, but the days always make my mind spin, so it's tough to go to sleep when I should. It's a weird combination of being wired and exhausted
simultaneously. And I loved it. My group was so connected. On Sunday night I went out to dinner and when I walked in the restaurant, there they were! They invited me and my friends to join them, and we had a great time. Their faces were glowing, and the high school boy was joyous - unrecognizable from the ultra-quiet, withdrawn boy I had met on Friday night.
I love love love working with you. Your energy is infectious, and you really know your stuff. You must be so proud of your accomplishment.
Rick was so thrilled about the weekend. He has been transformed from living in a place of fear to having a calm sense of well-being and hope. It is evident in his presence, even in the silence. I think his outlook prior to the seminar would have done great damage to his health. The POWER and PEACE that The Life Group brings clients is a treasure that is beyond
description.
I'm gonna try to get some of my HIV-IGNORANT friends to attend the next one. They're HIV-negative, but they could certainly use the education. This seminar should be a course that's required when applying for a gay card.
Thank you for being Rick's perfect, first contact and making sure the weekend delivered exactly like I told him it would. It's nice to know that I can describe the weekend as "magical" and have my words come true. I don't know of anything else so dependable.
I am committed to future weekends.
Love,
Gil
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presentations… WOW
