April 2019
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The Sum of My Parts
This week I read Olga Trujillo's book "The Sum of My Parts" and it helped me understand how a child survives abuse. It also showed me our survival techniques and how they become a hinderance when we are adults. How… Continue reading
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My Guides
What many of us fail to appreciate, is where do we fall into the patterns of creating false scenarios when we get stressed out? Why is it that some of us are good make believers? When in our lives was… Continue reading
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When You Are Uncertain.
I have been trying to write out the contents of anxiety, and how the thoughts were the opposite of reality, like it was trying to predict the unpredictable, but with a very heavy overtone of negativity that would leave me… Continue reading
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Be my guest
On the eve of Easter, my anxiety rose and my irrational thoughts swept in and out of my world. The idea of a holiday and all its trappings seemed too much. I wanted to cancel and be alone. My mind… Continue reading
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I Am Honored to Know You
I am honored, to be honored. Dial Help, was one of the first agencies that I worked with. An-gel was the first person I met there and together we began WIND – Women In New Directions, which is now in… Continue reading
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Who I am Becoming
When words are said to me, that are intended to hurt, it takes time to assimilate them in and then out, of my space. The words themselves were not shocking. The author of them was. The texting volley was so… Continue reading
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Who I am today.
It's been 10 years since I began blogging, but I had written in journals for 4 years prior to that. Writing out my life's questions and troubling thoughts has been so life changing for me. It has allowed me… Continue reading
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The Courage to be Disliked
I am listening to a book "The Courage to be Disliked" by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitke Koga, written in dialogue form. "Philosopher: As I have stated repeatedly, in Adlerian psychology, we think that all problems are interpersonal problems. In other… Continue reading