Pushed away: Elderberries
“The help is right there on the shelf. I keep not reaching for it.”
It withholds from itself across the whole range, in work, in closeness and in the ordinary upkeep of a body, and the withholding extends to remedies sitting within arm's length. A household that was actively harmful and openly rejecting taught it that it was not a thing worth spending anything on, its own attention included. What it asks for is to accept one available remedy on the day it is available.
It echoes Branwen, married into a hall where she was set to work and struck daily, wasting in plain view of a court that watched and did nothing. The form implies a task: to send the bird, before there is nothing left to send it about.
- Essence
- The Unallotted
- Rule
- I was not something anybody there was going to spend anything on.
- Substance / Activity
- Elderberries
- Archetype
- Branwen
- Emotional theme
- Self-deprivation extended to one's own upkeep
- Behavioural pattern
- Success-avoidance; intimacy-deflection; neglect of the body's maintenance
- Family dynamic
- Actively harmful and rejecting household
- Core wound
- I was not something anybody there was going to spend anything on.
- Exit
- Accepting one available remedy on the day it is available.
What is the "Pushed away: Elderberries" pattern?
It withholds from itself across the whole range, in work, in closeness and in the ordinary upkeep of a body, and the withholding extends to remedies sitting within arm's length. A household that was actively harmful and openly rejecting taught it that it was not a thing worth spending anything on, its own attention included. What it asks for is to accept one available remedy on the day it is available.
What does "Pushed away: Elderberries" sound like when it shows up?
The help is right there on the shelf. I keep not reaching for it.
What is the archetypal form of "Pushed away: Elderberries"?
It echoes Branwen, married into a hall where she was set to work and struck daily, wasting in plain view of a court that watched and did nothing. The form implies a task: to send the bird, before there is nothing left to send it about.
This is a pattern. Not a verdict.
It appears in many lives.
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