Thank you. She’s 70 years old so I always avoided being harsh out of respect for her age.
She should be retired by now. How is she still working? I was wondering that a characterization of the mentioned lady was lacking.
You have several ways of going about it @LoveTherese and I’d say saint Therese of Lisieaux method is a way to go yet partial as presented in her book “Story of a Soul”. This is for good reason!! It does boil down to mercy and charity, patience and grace.
Well, there are several forms of “violence” in the workplace that are somewhat beyond being “bearable”. Mobbing, or “moral harassment” are extraordinarily difficult to deal with. Even if reducing it to only one individual aggressor certain forms of “psychological violence” can hardly be endured and, it does help to clearly identify the mechanisms of violence being applied (this is perhaps one vector where personalities are somewhat linear, since the forms of violence aren’t infinite, but countable - the same way rethoric techniques being many can nevertheless be broken down, and a given author will mostly resort to the same techniques.)
In your particular instance, what is lacking is a diagnosis, an objective characterization of your persecutor. She has already “gotten to you” undoubtedly.
The “sapiential section” of the old testament might be a place to start from in this case, in characterizing the person and how to go about her. One size does not fit all, and you’ll get plenty from working with “lectio divina” from Scripture.
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@Tis_Bearself said, saint Therese was a Carmelite living the contemplative life in a convent. The saints formula is functional, but perhaps in your particular case the “cold cut” characterization of persons in the books of wisdom might contain the necessary keys.
God bless.
