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05
Jul
2009
+WRITING ABOUT OUR SEVERE EARLY TRAUMAS FROM THE INSIDE OUT  

8 hours ago by alchemynow

++++ Nobody might want to hear this, but I do believe that there can be wounds created within a child by severe abuse that will never heal. These wounds are too deep and too awful from crimes committed against children during their growth developmental stages that are too much, too deep, and too ove ...

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04
Jul
2009
+SIBLING PARTICIPATION IN CHILD ABUSE  

1 day ago by alchemynow

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ So far none of these stories are getting any easier to write, but fortunately my determination to write them more than matches any reluctance I have to do so. Each memory that leads to each story seems to be difficult in a unique and unforeseen ...

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+LINK TO NEW PAGE ON DISSOCIATION  

1 day ago by alchemynow

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I’ve heard of a ‘garden variety’ of this or that, but is there a ‘parking lot’ variety of dissociation for those of us who are severe child abuse survivors? Or was this experience, as recorded on this new page Age 14 – MIRACLE IN THE PARKING LOT – DISSOCIA ...

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03
Jul
2009
+LINK TO NEWLY ADDED CHILDHOOD STORY  

1 day ago by alchemynow

+++++++++++++++++++++ *Age 10 – NIGHTMARES AND BED WETTING +++++++++++++++++++++ This page has just been completed and published under MY CHILDHOOD STORIES. This page contains a ‘MAY TRIGGER ABUSE MEMORIES’ tag, so please be careful, cautious and considerate of yourself if you have a personal histor ...

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Changes In Brain Architecture May Be Driven By Different Cognitive Challenges  

1 day ago by Dominick M Maino, OD, MEd, FAAO, FCOVD-A

...Scientists trying to understand how the brains of animals evolve have found that evolutionary changes in brain structure reflect the types of social interactions and environmental stimuli different species face... Comments: Environment plays a role in brain development and evolution. I thinnk opt ...

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Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex deactivates when improvising in jazz  

2 days ago by Lover of Wisdom

Apparently, the type of creativity involved in jazz improvisation does a funny thing to the prefrontal cortex. The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex deactivates while the medial prefrontal cortex activates. From the article: . . .the researchers found that much of the change between improvisation and m ...

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+REWRITING MY STORY OF PETER THE BLACK RABBIT  

2 days ago by alchemynow

I do not know why today I wanted to rewrite My Story About My Black Rabbit Peter Perhaps it was because today has been gray and rainy – a very rare occasion for the high desert, and it reminded me of this story. I think I need another pet rabbit some day – perhaps in my completely unknown future if ...

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01
Jul
2009
The Paradise Paradigm  

3 days ago by admin

I just finished reading ‘The Paradise Paradigm’ by GD Allport, which I picked up very randomly when I was hanging out at the democratic school where I run a homeschool drop-in. It was a fairly quick read, and I felt that it needed either a shorter (more concise) or a longer (more in-depth) format, b ...

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The Overflowing Brain: Information Overload and the Limits of Working Memory  

4 days ago by Mental Health Recovery

The Overflowing Brain: Information Overload and the Limits of Working Memory As the pace of technological change accelerates, we are increasingly experiencing a state of information overload. Statistics show that we are interrupted every three minutes during the course of the work day. Multitasking ...

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+WE NEED NEW WORDS TO DIALOG WITH OUR BODY ABOUT TRAUMA  

4 days ago by alchemynow

I am trying to think of another word other than ‘renaissance’, or rebirth, to describe what I wish was happening now among those of us ordinary people who are trying to live the best lives we can without necessarily having the kind of safe and secure attachment background we needed to get along bett ...

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