Matt Kielty

The risk of this reputation.

Would you take your clothes off?

asks if she would stand in front of the group naked, and so she does.

Totally naked in front of these ten strangers.

Feels very soft.

I like the curves in my body.

And they have her look at herself in this mirror.

And what all was John learning about himself back then?

And Mitch said that John told him one of the first times he went to an encounter group.

The leader just sat there cross-legged for the longest time, didn't say anything, and apparently John's way of dealing with the tension was to...

Attack him?

Whoa.

They ended up in a wrestling match or whatever.

And, you know, John felt fulfilled at the end of whatever that experience was.

He began to realize that he was angry and that it was okay to feel angry.

Mitch says that a lot of what John was going through just kind of came down to just being seen, being heard, being held as he was, as he is.

And what happened is John went from buttoned up, black suit, black tie, neat hair kind of guy to someone entirely different.

Or, as Carl Rogers would probably say, he recovered someone who he already was.

Wild and free, like he grew his hair.

He'd have medallions.