What do you do when you’re making new friends? What do you wear? How do you behave? Do you use your best manners? What level of personal depth do you go to in the “getting to know each other conversation?” Hi…my name is Betty Lou and in my freshman year of college I did …
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Healing is not a destination, depending on one’s reaction to trauma. Mind you, NOT the amount of trauma. Healing can be a lifestyle. It can be something you have to dance with every day, or some days, or monthly and seasonally… When something “comes up for me,” I remember something or I get triggered. I …
A person who has consistently been mean asked a very close friend of mine if “she stays as far away from social media as possible…” out of embarrassment of being associated with me. Ouch. Everyone. Every one…has secrets, traumas, quirks, challenges, etc. I’m not the Lone Ranger. Parents who don’t do their …
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The best therapy workshop I ever did was from an organization called the Hoffman institute. You stay at one of their residential treatment facilities, they have them all over the country, and I believe out of the country…for seven days. All you work on for seven days is the issues you have that were …
I was a proud volunteer at one of the coolest…funnest…events ever… Girls On The Run 5 k Parrrrrty! Music and games…. girls, Moms…and Dads…with hair painted neon colors and hot pink tutu’s! From Girls on the Run website: We inspire girls… Girls on the Run is a transformational physical activity based positive …
A trigger for me is any stimulus that causes my mind to go back to a memory and experience again a strong positive or negative emotion The Holidays, for example, when The Nutcracker Ballet comes to town … as soon as I see the ads for it or hear the music – it …
