By Sue Harding The Fulcrum, Issue 89 May 2023 The experience of adoption can sometimes feel like the occupation of a liminal space; a sense of floating between two places, times or selves. It is a before and after separation, two sets of families, (sometimes) two different names, and a sense of a silent self. … Continue reading Adoption & Duality: Navigating a Liminal Space
By Sue Harding The Fulcrum, Issue 47 Spring/Summer 2009 In ‘The path taken away’, The Fulcrum 46, I explored the idea of ancestry and the shadow self within the context of adoption. This article examines the role of mirroring in the development of self-awareness. In this context self-awareness is taken to mean a felt and … Continue reading When Mirrors Are Missing
By Sue Harding The Fulcrum, Issue 46 Winter/Spring 2009 One evening I was sitting with a friend in a café while she perused her new books on numerology. We laughed as she read out her ‘findings’ based on the mathematics of her name. She tried different combinations, with and without her middle name, just to … Continue reading The Path Taken Away – Adoption, Ancestry and the Shadow Self
