Oh it’s really good to be able to go back into you know my… not just childhood [in] particular. Those days where— especially during the ministry. I always try to give, give, give, and then not really reflecting on my own life.

And so that’s why when we started it’s hard for me to enter into that. Because I seem to have forgotten about that, or it seems. It’s hard to go back there. Because for us it’s just God there. But this is really helping me to be able to go into my own self and just to listen to my own self. Especially, listen to that cry that’s really in need of attention and care which is really, really good. This week has really been helping to better— to listen to my own life. Listen to my own self, you know that—trying to tap into it. Which is really really good for me to do that.

You know some other thing is to be able to go and journey again? Journey again that— you know my ‘little self’ there which, sometimes, I forget about… try to walk with him and be a friend to him in my journey. It’s really good for me.

[So the body map was especially moving for you?]

Yes. Moving. It was really moving to be able to see and address it. Like “Wow. He is really in need of that accompaniment.”

Yeah. Accompaniment in the journey.

September 06, 2019
The Aesthetics of Self-Care workshop with MAGIS Creative Spaces
East Asian Pastoral Institute (EAPI), Ateneo de Manila University

Actually, it was really good and interesting. And full of fun and humor and also learning. And I really really enjoyed that. [I learned] many things [about myself]. About self-care, then the acceptance, then love [and] energy. So— and also it will really help us in our— in our ministry also in the future. [I would] surely— definitely [join the program again].

September 06, 2019
The Aesthetics of Self-Care workshop with MAGIS Creative Spaces
East Asian Pastoral Institute (EAPI), Ateneo de Manila University

I really enjoyed this module. So, for me it’s very helpful. Through this module and activities I have from my active experience into the perceptive experience. And it also gives me hope, gives me life, gives me courage and gives me new life…in the future. So, I really liked— really enjoyed.

September 06, 2019
The Aesthetics of Self-Care workshop with MAGIS Creative Spaces
East Asian Pastoral Institute (EAPI), Ateneo de Manila University

Nakatulong talaga siya nang malaki ko. Pagiging… bukas. Kasi, lumabas ulit yung pagiging joyfulness. Kasi… [I’m] so serious. So… from time to time, I need to be playful na ganun. So… it really helps me to enhance myself. So… malaking tulong sa akin.

([The workshop] helped me in becoming… open. Because, the joyfulness in me came out again. Because [I’m] so serious. So… from time to time, I need to be playful like that. So… it really helps me to enhance myself. So… it’s a big help for me.)

September 06, 2019
The Aesthetics of Self-Care workshop with MAGIS Creative Spaces
East Asian Pastoral Institute (EAPI), Ateneo de Manila University