When I was in DC my mother agreed to pay for an additional session with Dr. Jung every week for the next several months.  That's two times a week I'll be going, which seems just over the top and beyond self-indulgent, especially for someone who until a few years ago was completely suspicious and distrustful of anything that smacked of therapy and ( Read more... )

I’m concerned for A.  She found out this week that she has osteoporosis, meaning that her bones are disintegrating as we speak.  It’s a severe case, and she’s most definitely on the young side for this to be happening.  Even more troublesome is that there’s not much there to begin with -- as she put it, she’s got bird bones, and is hands down one ( Read more... )

I've started to have dreams again, or least dreams that I've been able to capture in some form.  In fact, they've been coming so fast and furious, and are seemingly all so rich, that my weekly session with Dr. Jung is not enough time to process all of them.  This is a good development, and perhaps means that I've moving in the direction of less ( Read more... )

I'm standing on the top of a wall, and there are two ladders that go down to the ground, one to my right and one to my left.  Running alongside each ladder is a waterfall.  The ladder on my right is fixed -- the rungs are built into the wall and appear to be strong and sturdy.  The ladder on the left leans against the wall.  It also seems to be ( Read more... )

I hold it together.  That's what I do.  I hold myself together so that I can get through day after day, and I hold it together when my body and soul scream that I should do otherwise.  It is what I've done all my life.  It is survival.  Or maybe I've just perceived it to be survival, when in fact my holding it together becomes ultimately a ( Read more... )

Yesterday the kiddos and I watched Kiki's Delivery Service rather than go to dance class.  We were all tired, under the weather, and so decided to curl up at home (pretty much my general preferred thing to do anyway).  During the scene in the movie where Kiki finds it in within herself to be able to fly once again I found myself getting all choked ( Read more... )

I've always loved to go see movies alone, and for many years the Sunday afternoon matinee was my regular haunt. I'm not going to go into why that habit died out in my life (one of those back story things), but rather say that it has been too long gone so I'm now finding ways to create a somewhat equivilent experience in my home. Consequently, last ( Read more... )

DWE is done and gone, and colored dots aside it all went well.  There was a certain contingent of participants that I hoped would come away from it engaged and intellectually challenged, and by all reports that was successful.  This pleased me, especially since it is where most of my real energy was directed ( Read more... )

Lots of LJ friends writing about their dreams yesterday, and again today ( Read more... )

Last night I woke up at around 3 in the morning and couldn't get back to sleep.  Finally around 4:30 or so I did fall asleep, only to wake up again about a half hour later from a dream.  It was one of those super-realistic dreams -- in it I heard someone outside the window of this little basement room where I've been sleeping for the last three ( Read more... )