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14
Dec
2009
Traumatic Brain Injury — In Hope Part 5

3 days ago by secondchancetolive

Please read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 6 and Part 7 for context. Thank you. What I did not understand — at the time — was being used to create a beautiful tapestry. Jumbled multicolored threads — my experience — on the side that I could see were being used to create a design beyond belief ...

Second Chance to Live - secondchancetolive.wordpress.com · 32 references

13
Dec
2009
Recovery, recovering, recovered . .

4 days ago by theswarmite

Therapy speak is a different language for many observers – not quite Esperanto but close – it can heal and alienate at the same time : inner child and "shadow side" being the worst offenders to the man on the street. When Gerry Halliwell left the Spice Girls she was seen clutching THE ROAD LESS TRAV ...

TheSwarmiteREHAB - theswarmite.com

12
Dec
2009
Do I Love an Addict (part 1)

5 days ago by admin

First of all, the term addict in our society has a very negative connotation. It comes part and parcel with an image. The image is largely stereotyped from movies we have all seen. When we hear the word addict, the image we see is one of scruffy figures, sneaking through dark alleys or holed up in b ...

Curb Your Addiction - curbyouraddiction.com

10
Dec
2009
Traumatic Brain Injury — In Hope Part 3

6 days ago by secondchancetolive

Please read Part 1 and Part 2 for context. Thank you. And then I found that hope had always been present. Over the course of my life and for many years I experienced many disappointments. These disappointments clouded my perspective because I invested myself in specific outcomes. When those outcomes ...

Second Chance to Live - secondchancetolive.wordpress.com · 32 references

Compassion Without Martyrdom

6 days ago by Laurie Weiss

A client who frequently loses focus in her own life when she notices that someone else is in pain or difficulty asked me if I could help her get to the state described by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in the following quote. “A mind committed to compassion is like an overflowing reservoir – a constant ...

Personal Development - idontneedtherapy.com/blog

08
Dec
2009
Traumatic Brain Injury — In Hope Part 2

9 days ago by secondchancetolive

Please read Part 1 for context. Thank you. For many years of my life I was unable to grasp the reality that I could experience hope in my now. Consequently, I found myself waiting for a “when” to occur before I could be able to experience the benefits of hope. Because I maintained the perspective of ...

Second Chance to Live - secondchancetolive.wordpress.com · 32 references

Proof that this disease does not discriminate…

9 days ago by dopaminedialogue

Tiger has hit a heavy rough patch It seems almost every day now, we are hearing stories about various celebrities who are discovered to have issues with substances. Anna Nicole Smith seemed to start this spiral downhill, with Heath Ledger following her, although Michael Jackson, Britney Spears, Lind ...

DOPAMINE DIALOGUE - dopaminedialogue.wordpress.com

07
Dec
2009
Duty Calls . . .

9 days ago by theswarmite

It must be the class structure that tells us Brits to " do the right thing". From place-mats to funerals, getting it right is imperative in order to be liked. A few years back a brand of dishwasher commercial on the telly said it all. Imagine the scene. . . . Middle class dinner party, men in suits ...

TheSwarmiteREHAB - theswarmite.com

Codependent Still

9 days ago by protectyourjoy

But alas, I’m working on it. If you don’t know what codependency is, you can look it up in the dictionary and find a lil picture of ME next to it. Ok, maybe not yet, but perhaps in the next edition of Merriam-Webster. In the meantime, codependency or codependence describes a pattern of detrimental s ...

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