Name: ASCA Support Group Meeting *VIRTUAL*, Topic: Looking Forward, Forming the Future
Start: 2024-05-21T18:30:00-04:00
End: 2024-05-21T20:00:00-04:00

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**Topic: Looking Forward: Forming the Future**
Throughout the year, transitional dates like New Year's Day, a birthday, an anniversary; or events like a graduation, geographic relocation, a birth or death, provide us with events with which to pause and reflect, to assess and dream. These moments encourage us to look forward and to imagine what the future can hold for us. In looking forward, in imagining our future we initially lay the groundwork, the basic formation for tomorrow's future, next month's future, next year's future.
Balance between looking back, especially concerning our past childhood abuse, and looking forward to the lives that we would like and deserve to have, and the kind of person we would like to be, can be challenging. It is difficult, some would say almost impossible, to look forward to our future, when we have not fully disclosed the story, the people and events of our past abuse. Usually it is the secret, the hidden, the closed, the suppressed that becomes the major obstacle to imagining and forming our future.
Looking forward and forming our future does not necessitate nor require resolving, healing, fixing, reconciling or rectifying all the various elements from our past abuse. As long as we have thoroughly told our story, we no longer use our daily life energies to hide, suppress, deny. Forming our future has more to do with the practical everyday scenarios of planting seeds, of taking concrete steps, of doing.

##### Questions

1. What occasions or events tend to encourage you to pause, to reflect, to assess, to dream about your future?
2. How do you negotiate the balance between looking back and looking forward?
3. What are you doing to pause, to reflect, to plant seeds, to take steps to form your future?

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