I've been listening to this woman, Brene Brown, who researches shame, what causes it, and how it affects people. She ends up looking at how people are raised and how much shame they have, so this ends up dovetailing with kids. This is how I learned about her; listening to a talk she gave on raising shame-resilient kids. I re-listen to it ( Read more... )

I woke up this morning thinking about friends I've had spectacular falling-outs with. There aren't many of them -- three come to mind -- but they were definitely spectacular ( Read more... )

Hello, peeps. Been a while, huh? I don't even know where to begin. >.< (I'm cutting a lot of this because it's LONG; spread through is stuff about coming out to people, personal experiences of late, and general life stories.)

( Going to South Dakota )

It is 10pm. I'm brain fried, and my best bet is to go to bed, for I have two dogs to train, errands to run, and writing to do tomorrow. But I'm not quite ready. So the question becomes, do I ( Read more... )