As a part of my recovery process I'm in a continual state of self assessment and I absolutely agree that it is *the* key to growth and peace. I could tell you where I feel I am on this scale, but in my experience with self assessment (especially because I've been honored with hearing a lot of other people's inventories or self assessments) has ( Read more... )

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I am celebrating 20 years of sobriety this week, so the topic of learning is very timely. People have been asking me all week: What have you learned in twenty-years of self-examination and no chemicals? Truly, I know less and less as I get older, I was very clever and full of absolutes when I was young, and incidentally, was much less teachable. ( Read more... )

…Just settling back in after a week on the road with my son ( Read more... )

This week I was entertained by Freud’s concept that all of our decisions are pre-consciously determined. As a person who was once at the complete mercy of my id, I can attest, that for the most part the concepts of *control* and especially *choice* are largely manufactured by our culture. The choice between Pepsi and Coke creates the illusion of ( Read more... )

What a week! I finished up the Jog-a-thon, and I am completely wiped out, but it was worth it. I had fun getting to know more of the kids at my son's school. I'm actually considering teaching or school counseling as an application of my yet-to-be-earned Psych. degree. I seem to have the ability to hold structure for the kids and connect with them ( Read more... )

Dang, I just did the first day of Jog-a-thon at my son's school. It's one of our biggest fundraisers and this year it was up to me to organize the thing. It came off pretty well, but I am frikken tired. The kids ran a lot of laps today and I hope we raise big $$$$ for the school. Got to do it again tomorrow...

jchl

Every now and again the loss of my loved ones hits me fresh and icy. I’ll hear a song or see a name in an old address book and I have to bury my loves all over again.
Closure is a lying word; it applies to doors and stitches, but not to people…I miss them all.

jchl

Hi Everybody!Class was interesting this week. I was taking my regular notes, but so many questions kept popping up while Mr. Mike was explaining the inherent duality within psychology, I was scribbling my own questions in the margins. I know that I’m one of those students who puts my hand up all of the time, but it seems that these years of ( Read more... )