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establish rapport. comfort people. supplant dysfunction.
Once you have learned to edit out behaviors that are actively threatening, controlling, or distancing, you can work toward building a sense of shared purpose. This union is the basis of therapeutic rapport. To better illustrate things to say and do, I'm going to translate common things therapists say into their component pieces ( Read more... ) -
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Had nerve symptoms in hands return at work yesterday. Had a panic attack. Checked out mentally for the rest of the day. Taking today off to detox.
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meds
I haven't been having migraines since I went gluten-free, and I check things. I check like crazy. But not crazy enough, because I just had a migraine after having eaten only "safe" things the last several days. I just got done re-checking my vitamins, and there were a few that I had missed before I found out about cellulose/cellulose gum. The ( Read more... ) -
Things to remind myself of
Despite the fact that I am moving and mostly broke, I will end this month with less than $1,000 of debt ( Read more... ) -
Brainspace taken up by real life.
I have very little that is interesting to share, since most of the theater of crazy people that is my mind has been occupied with getting stuff done. It sucks a bit more than usual lately ( Read more... ) -
If I won the lottery
Someone got me thinking. What WOULD I do if I won the lottery? Would I lose myself because I had no financial goals? What would change?
- I wouldn't stop working - I LIKE my job. I like my co-workers, and my clients, and fixing things. If I needed to make more money than I do right now, I would go work at the Four Seasons. And I could, but I'd have ( Read more... )
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Shamelessly swiped from gryphynshadow, mostly because I gave up on trying to figure out what I was good at last time before I got to ten. Some of these are stolen from other people's lists, because I'm a pirate like that ( Read more... ) -
note to self: never leave the house w/o headache meds
This week is like being 14. Migraine out of fucking nowhere? Wait- that's not true. I totally should have been expecting this. If gluten can be a hidden migraine trigger, and as much as I was looking forward to never having another migraine now that I'd gone gluten-free, in hindsight it makes perfect sense that gluten exposure would have migraine ( Read more... ) -
How did this become a serious post? [4 things]
*I was going to do the April Fool's Day post about how Xenoix and I had broken up, and put the 'details' under a cut-tag that only went to the words "Do you know what day it is?" Unfortunately I just don't feel like it. I feel kinda crappy, physically, like sinus-shoggoths are trying to invade my throat. What I wouldn't give for some nice ( Read more... ) -
highs and lows of the week
Yesterday was such a success, I have decided that I am at home to visitors on the second and third Sunday of every month. Baking, music and tea will be happening at my place. Call to let me know you're coming over.
In recent depressing news Utah is trying to criminalize miscarriage. There are more earthquakes in areas that can't afford it. The ( Read more... )