{"id":23677,"date":"2016-12-06T04:00:28","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T03:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maihua.fr\/en\/?p=23677"},"modified":"2016-12-06T12:16:37","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T11:16:37","slug":"melissa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/en\/2016\/12\/melissa\/","title":{"rendered":"MELISSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh it has been a long time since we touched back on this \u201ctwenties\u201d series that is so dear to my heart.\u00a0 Last year during our Seymour+ workshop, Melissa evidently played the the game.\u00a0 So Melissa tell us was you felt when we first met whereas you were someone else.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cplease note for those who don\u2019t know that Seymour is Melissa\u2019s father name\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The only photo I found (it actually found me) of myself when I was around 20 years old is a photo with my dad.\u00a0 What surprises me the most is my protective gesture.\u00a0 In my recollection I thought he was the one protecting me but this picture shows\u00a0the opposite. During my entire life I thought I was weak and that it was my parents who were lifting\u00a0me up, but it turns out that while looking at that photo I can see it\u2019s them who were\u00a0counting on me.\u00a0 This photo takes me back to a past within which I was caring for others before myself.\u00a0 I lived from the outside in, in reaction to the others, tending to their needs. Now I still care for others because it\u2019s my passion, but I do it in a more balanced and healthy way\u2026 I take care of myself first therefore my tenderness goes out to others without expecting something in return.\u00a0 I now pour from a glass half full and not half empty.\u00a0 The \u201cwater\u201d that I share is therefore healthier, cleaner.<\/p>\n<p>The day the photo was taken, I worked at the office very late again and I changed in the bathroom where the party was.\u00a0 No time for femininity, or me time to get pretty.\u00a0 I barely recognize myself, I have the feeling that it\u2019s someone entirely different.\u00a0 What is surprising is that I was happy during this era because I didn\u2019t know yet what I was missing, I was in a cage without knowing it.<\/p>\n<p>Since then I discovered life, a life of freedom where I can be myself and trust my own ideas, feelings and instincts.\u00a0 The path since then has been rough but I wouldn\u2019t change it for anything in the world.\u00a0 In my case I feel substantially better, more beautiful, more fulfilled, stronger, softer, more \u201cmyself\u201d today at 48 years old then when I was twenty.<\/p>\n<p>Photos don\u2019t come to us by accident, this one is very revealing-head to head, we look like conjoined twins.\u00a0 I think that I still have some work to do with the past. The energetic link is still very strong.\u00a0 Maybe with his body imprisoned\u00a0by the multiple sclerosis, he was trying to transmit his ideas to me, a piece of his soul\u2026so that I could\u00a0continue to carry them in the world?<\/p>\n<p><em>This text is a translation, please find the original in french <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maihua.fr\/2016\/12\/melissa\/\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh it has been a long time since we touched back on this \u201ctwenties\u201d series that is so dear to my heart.\u00a0 Last year during our Seymour+ workshop, Melissa evidently played the the game.\u00a0 So Melissa tell us was you felt when we first met whereas you were someone else. \u201cplease note for those who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/en\/2016\/12\/melissa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MELISSA<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1214,1229],"tags":[938,939,1309],"class_list":["post-23677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-20-years-old","category-portraits-en","tag-melissa-unger","tag-seymour","tag-team-human"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23677"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23682,"href":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23677\/revisions\/23682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.maihua.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}