Working on changing my internal dialogue from "I look pretty good for someone who is 35 lbs overweight" to "I look pretty good." I am trying to just be, no qualifiers. I have evidence from outside myself that this is a true thing. No matter that I can stand up for others when they are not believing in themselves. I always insist that others give ( Read more... )

Part one was I am supremely secure in my relationships. Not always in my self image but when it comes to the people I am intimately connected to I rarely have issues. The closer you are to me the easier it is for me to say to you, "Go get what you need. I trust that you will not break trust with me. I do not fear you will never return ( Read more... )

Pondering how people use drugs as coping mechanisms. I know just about everyone does it in some fashion or another. Every single teatotaler I know is addicted to adrenaline ( Read more... )

For a long long time I have maintained that I am a supremely selfish person. I have believed that all actions that people take are for selfish reasons. That altruism doesn't exist because people don't do something unless they get something out of it. Even if that something is a decrease in the level of guilt they have for having more than the ( Read more... )