Letters for Healing from Daughters to Fathers

Share in our Year of Healing!

W e are beginning our Year of Healing on Father’s Day, June 17, 2007.

W e invite you to join us.

Y ou may find the tips and other gifts we have gathered helpful on your journey of healing and general well-being. New tips will be added as time and inspiration allow!

Make a pledge to yourself to actively work on healing. It takes twenty-one days for a new action to become part of your daily routine. So give each of our suggestions a try for at least that long! Any one of our tips given throughout the year can help you move closer to peace, contentment and joy, if incorporated as part of your daily practice.

Do you have favorite ways to lift your spirits and allow you to appreciate yourself and your life? Please share them with us.

June 17, 2007 - Father’s Day

Gift 1. Appreciation Lists

Take a piece of paper and in two minutes, write down all the things you appreciate about a person in your life.

Try this daily for at least three weeks, selecting a different person each day. Some days you may choose someone you love dearly; other days, you may benefit from selecting someone with whom you have challenges.

Since this is Father’s Day, would you like to try this with your dad first?

While the following resulted from writing a letter rather than a two-minute Appreciation List, here is what one of our contributors shared with us:

"...my father and I had a wonderful healing conversation after I emailed him a copy of my letter. Our relationship is more open and forgiving now."
Judith Brown, contributor to Letters to Fathers from Daughters

Visit our 5 simple steps to learn about writing your own Letter for Healing.

For at least the first week, try this with a different person each day. After a period of time, you may find it enlightening to repeat select people.

Find a folder or box to contain your appreciation lists. Having a special place to keep them serves a double purpose:

ü They are all in one place when you want to see them. It is interesting, over time, to see how your perceptions of people have expanded.

ü It gives your efforts significance. It gives you a tangible end result that you can treasure and revisit.

Heart question:

How does finding things to appreciate in another help me appreciate myself more fully?

“We don’t know who first discovered water,
but we can be sure that it wasn’t a fish.”

Howard Gossage


	Home Tell me more FAQs Year of healing 5 simple steps to writing letters for healing Contribute your writing Current publications Inspiration & Resources Who we are Contact us	Share in our Year of Healing! W e are beginning our Year of Healing on Father’s Day, June 17, 2007. W e invite you to join us. Y ou may find the tips and other gifts we have gathered helpful on your journey of healing and general well-being. New tips will be added as time and inspiration allow! Make a pledge to yourself to actively work on healing. It takes twenty-one days for a new action to become part of your daily routine. So give each of our suggestions a try for at least that long! Any one of our tips given throughout the year can help you move closer to peace, contentment and joy, if incorporated as part of your daily practice. Do you have favorite ways to lift your spirits and allow you to appreciate yourself and your life? Please share them with us. June 17, 2007 - Father’s Day Gift 1. Appreciation Lists Take a piece of paper and in two minutes, write down all the things you appreciate about a person in your life. Try this daily for at least three weeks, selecting a different person each day. Some days you may choose someone you love dearly; other days, you may benefit from selecting someone with whom you have challenges. Since this is Father’s Day, would you like to try this with your dad first? While the following resulted from writing a letter rather than a two-minute Appreciation List, here is what one of our contributors shared with us: "...my father and I had a wonderful healing conversation after I emailed him a copy of my letter. Our relationship is more open and forgiving now." Judith Brown, contributor to Letters to Fathers from Daughters Visit our 5 simple steps to learn about writing your own Letter for Healing. For at least the first week, try this with a different person each day. After a period of time, you may find it enlightening to repeat select people. Find a folder or box to contain your appreciation lists. Having a special place to keep them serves a double purpose: ü They are all in one place when you want to see them. It is interesting, over time, to see how your perceptions of people have expanded. ü It gives your efforts significance. It gives you a tangible end result that you can treasure and revisit. Heart question: How does finding things to appreciate in another help me appreciate myself more fully? “We don’t know who first discovered water, but we can be sure that it wasn’t a fish.” Howard Gossage