Nana Biography

But he was a marvelous person .  The whole group got together, and we all climbed on people and we held people and we rubbed fannies, and everybody broke down in the thing except me and two others. And morning came, this was the whole weekend.

And you hadn’t broken. 

No, because I didn’t see where there was anything wrong with my life (laughs).  It was really great. All I did was empathize with everybody, I cried with people, I helped them, I listened to their stories. I got awfully mad at one woman there, I just really told her that she was stupid, just really let it out.

So that morning, it’s Fritz Perls, isn’t it?

Oh, he did that. 

No, he wasn’t the leader of it, he was there in the group and we were eating breakfast and Fritz Pearls was across the room and he had eyes like the concept of Steel eyes, and he saw me across the way and he was coming around and saying hello to people, and he came over to the table and I said, good morning. And he put his hand down the back of my shirt, inside, and began to massage my back, and then he leaned down and whispered in my ear, What a terrible burden are you carrying? And with that I absolutely went to pieces at the table. John said, “shall I come?”  I said, “no. “I had tears streaming down my face. I went out and went back to our little room, and I realized that the encounter group was going to meet, and I was sobbing so, partly from exhaustion and partly from the weekend, and I don’t know what else, I took off my clothes and took a shower, pulled myself together, I thought, “into the group looking like this “. I went into the group, sat down the circle, and that man looked around the circle and said (laughing) I think somebody has something to tell us. And with that, I just went absolutely wild, you know. I told the whole story. I said don’t feel sorry for me. Now, I am happily married, I went on about my kids, and everything is really under control, and I, I just went to pieces.

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