Starting Over Talk - Peer Coaching Support Site

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In confessional, Rhonda says that Jessica is finally able to honor the loss of her mother by and create a new memory for 9/11 by building a home for a deserving family, but the reality is home is where the heart is and Jessica still has some unresolved issues about her father and New York. Jessica says there are so many question marks once she leaves the house and she tells Rhonda that she thinks she handled a conversation with her dad very well. Rhonda asks Jessica what she said and Jessica tells Rhonda that she knows in the past that she has planned like crazy, but now she is taking time and being present. Rhonda tells Jessica that she is going to invite her dad to the SOH, and Jessica asks if she can invite her step mom too. In confessional, Jessica says that she asked if she could invite her dad’s wife too because she knows she is important to her dad and that she is part of the family. Jessica says she needs to let go of the past and start fresh. Rhonda tells Jessica that when you are ready to leave a place you have gratitude about what you have learned.

Rhonda meets with all the ladies to talk about their experience with Habitat for Humanity. In confessional, Rhonda says that now that the ladies have finished their assignment they need to talk about what building a home really means. Rhonda asks them how it felt to be working and building a home for someone else. Lisa says that is was nice because she didn’t have to think about herself. Lisa says that she is tired of thinking about herself. Rhonda says thank goodness! Lisa says that with all the inquiry and investigation that it’s nice to not have to think about herself for a change. Jill says it was nice for her to do something for someone she doesn’t know from Adam and being part of their joy. Christina says that she got a lot of satisfaction of doing the physical labor and the faces of the people when they came to see the house. Christina says she saw how beautiful it was and how it must be have felt to be a mother and to have a home for her family. Rhonda says that home is a huge metaphor for your physical location, and that some of her greatest feelings of home came from the people that she was around. Rhonda tells them that it goes beyond a place. Jessica says that after her mom died she said she only had a house now and not a home. Rhonda asks where she thinks home is now, and Jessica says that she thinks that home is more than just a physical structure. She says it’s about the people and the support and the love that you get. It’s a feeling. Jessica says that when she said she didn’t have a home she had a void in her heart, and working with that family gave her that feeling again. Rhonda tells the women that a chef is going to come into the house to make dinner for them.

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