“…If established, this sense of belonging created a safe environment for the sharing of one’s stories. Like all such groups, it is comforting, and liberating, to understand that one is not alone (Beehler, Clark, & Eisen, 2014; Blair, 1943; Dreikurs, 1959; Gakkoucis & Kaufman, 1988; Paster, 1945; Walker & Nash, 1981). In those cases where specific content and powerful feelings had been repressed, the outpouring of emotion produced a sense of catharsis (Ackerman, 1946; Egendorf, 1975; Frick & Bogart, 1982; Schwartz, 1945; Sherman, 1943).…”