A year of commitment

Today is 2.2.2026 and the blog is 1 year old. Actually it will be one year old tomorrow, as I had started this commitment on 3.2.2025, a day after my 51st birthday.

It is a great feeling I must admit, to see that I have committed and have managed to keep this commitment for a whole year. I had some time off during the summer and once here and there, but after all I, or more precisely, we, dear reader, meet here in the 42nd blog today! 

Once I made the decision to write, thanks to my brother who encouraged me to do so, I actually started a transformation process. Not that I have changed, but the way I think has transformed. I managed to overcome my sense of ‘I am not interesting enough to write a blog…who would read me…?’ kind of thoughts. I mean when I think about it, it is some kind of a disguised feeling of pride, or selfishness when I prevent myself from doing something because I have the fear that I am not good enough, meaning I can only do the things of which I am certain of being good at.

In fact one just needs to do it. Do it and then let life decide what is good enough or not, and even when it is not good nothing really happens. Writing the blog taught me another level of humbleness. This blog has been yet another process of serving something, or being in the service of something. 

I have learned to give time to a page or two every week, and to concentrate and allow the writing process to plant some seeds inside of me, and for this I am very grateful. In the end of the day it is so simple to decide and choose to be in a simple action, without complicating it too much, without putting a load of doubt, fear and ego on it.

Writing about the subjects or persons has allowed me to deepen my love for them. When I write I feel I give my attention to the things or to the person I am writing about, and it generates a kind of warmth and love in me.

Knowing also that some are reading the blog tickles me, it is exciting. Sometimes I get some feedback from friends, but every week when I write Güneş reads it and then puts it on the Website, she also arranges the photos. But most of all she is the first person to read me, and her opinion is always very important for me. She is my critical eye and I trust her vision and thoughts. She always knows how to support me and her support is encouraging me on a weekly, sometimes even daily basis. (Thank you Güneş)

Writing the blog also helped me to think differently about my book writing process….

Speaking of it, well I haven’t written much, and by now, dear reader, you should be familiar with this phrase. But I am really working on it. I somehow cannot be so light about it, like with the blog for example. Nothing stops me much from writing the blog regularly. And although it should have been a blog about how I write the book (s), it has also become a blog which tells about the things that shape my writing of the book, or influence, inspire and nourish.

Alongside the blog I have started writing a very short weekly newsletter, every Monday too, in Turkish which is called Canım Somatik Çekti, which means “I fancy some somatic”, or “how about a bit of somatic?” (maybe the second one sounds better in English). Today we have published the 15th. We are thinking about starting it in English…maybe you’d like to subscribe. It’s an easy read, some food for thought and a little somatic sport, a paragraph or two, rarely three.

I have also had a fresh idea, which i will share here, even if it won’t happen in reality, I can share it here and dream about it. Everyone who commits to the Somatic Dialogue Facilitator Training has to hand in a written assignment or the so-called Final Report after completing their apprenticeship hours. The works of all certified facilitators so far are such an inspiration. I had the pleasure of reading them again recently, and suddenly had the desire to publish them in Limpid Works. I would like to ask all facilitators who have completed their Final Reports if they would agree that I would print their work, have it bound into a book and add it to the Limpid Works Library, so that anyone who wishes can read and find inspiration in them. Like this I could also cite some of my colleagues in my book, as I find their way of saying the things so beautiful.

So writing this blog for a year has not only trained me in writing regularly, but has been a space that inspired me and continues nourishing me.

The Blog gives me the space to explore my thoughts, to experience the pleasure of sharing with the readers, and to keep a disciplined rhythm. Just like the space one gets during a Somatic Dialogue session. Every task is an invitation where the facilitator holds the time frame for the participant to relate, connect and work with the task. The time given is like a gift in which the participant can surrender and drop the necessity of thinking about a beginning, a development or an end. In this time frame one can just surrender and install oneself into the action, into the sensations of the body and dialogue through movement. 

When one thinks of it, it is really like a gift, because it is very hard to give oneself this time and attention. It is difficult to do it alone. But when a facilitator invites you to an exploration and holds the time for you, opens the beginning and calls you back from your depths to reality, you can dive into another perception of time. Like a child that forgets itself in the playing, feeling the presence of the parent nearby. It is very archaic: the structure on a certain level provides a liberation on another level. The presence of a being gives safety to another being, and the listening of one person lures the expression in another.

Thank you Burak Yedek for being such an inspiration in my life, thank you for giving me this nudge and inviting me to write a blog. And of course without Güneş the blog wouldn’t meet the readers. I think I will stop and continue next week :)

Until then, stay in Love!

B