Thank you - in way, I do feel lucky to be able to sit down with my wife and kids for meditation. During bedtime, kids actually ask me can we do meditation please? Maybe at this stage they just wanted to spend more time with me at bedtime - but can feel they are slowly getting it.
Sorry to hear about your trauma - more than happy to listen. You may already be doing this and definitely not meaning to know what you have gone through but Compassion and forgiveness meditation at the of meditation I described in https://steemit.com/mindfullife/@bewithbreath/me-and-my-breath-4-steps-of-breath-meditation is supposed to make it slightly easier.
For silence retreat - you can look up www.dhamma.org - there are many centers in the US. I think it will be 1pm in Colorado for group meditation this wednesday.
Have you managed to sort out discord? We can see you there and had sent you msg there. Look forward to know you more 😊

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