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Neglecting None
In last nights role play at Dial Help, we learned about depression, or experienced what it feels like to answer the calls…or even more important, how it feels to sit in the emotion with them or 'try and fix things'.… Continue reading
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Only Way Through It.
I am back doing yoga on a fairly regular basis…and in the last few weeks, my left hip seemed to straighten out, allowing me to walk straighter. However, with this adjustment, it seems that my left lower back now is… Continue reading
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Surrounded by Nature.
When I thought of how I processed my feelings, being in Nature was also a very key component to me finding my balance. I used to walk most days, for my emotions seemed to overwhelm me. But, once I… Continue reading
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By Feelings.
I always knew that my quilting was Art Therapy, I just never knew how…it just was. I never sat down and dissected the parts or even looked closely at the process, but rather was focused on the fabric, quilts and… Continue reading
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Quilted into My Art
Last week at Dial Help, I was given a thumb nail sketch of a few different disorders or what I guess we call Mental Conditions or ways in dealing with pain and abuse. One of the things we talked about… Continue reading
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Cannot Entertain Friendships
From Mark Nepo's "Book of Awakening" "I have been blessed to have deep friends in my time on Earth. They have been an oasis when my life has turned a desert. They have been a cool river to plunge in… Continue reading
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Deviating from What is Standard.
Our training last night was so revealing to me on so many levels. We do role playing on the phones. Meaning, a person is the caller and we are the liners (on the crisis line) and we then get… Continue reading
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Standing on Nothing.
I thought there was a strip of land between true and not true. A place where folks could agree with me, but not like in total agreement. Sorta like a path in the zoo, where you are not in… Continue reading
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What is it Reflecting?
In Oprah's magazine, she interviews Deepak Chopra and she asks, Oprah: "What is that essence? In every conversation I've had with housewives,in Mumbai, with middle-class people, upper-class, in the slums – everyone says there is an underlying consciousnes of karma.… Continue reading
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The pain between us.
In writing the post for Mother's Day, I felt or seen the completed picture of what might have been, had I continued in being a 'kinder' daughter. We think of the legacy of abuse as handing down repeated behaviors… Continue reading
