Talking ‘Bout My Evolution

I talk about how my son Henry had dug himself a deep hole with school this semester and how he had to finally own up to the mess he's made and work on a plan to turn himself around.  If he had just advocated for himself, so much trouble could have been avoided.

I talk about any information from the webinar that I missed or glossed over in the previous two podcasts.  I think this topic of dissociation  is so important that I needed to really work through some more of the ideas from the presentation and understand how to recognize when someone is in a dissociative state and which strategies I can use to help them (or me) get out of it, both in the moment and in the long-term.  Hopefully, you have found this information helpful too.

I talk about some strategies you can use if you are dealing with a person in a dissociative state.  I also talk about some more ways dissociation shows up and how this relates to me and things I've experienced.

I talk about this webinar I listened to yesterday and today by the NICABM Behavioral Psychology group.  Different psychologists discussed the phenomenon of dissociation and, while I've heard the term and learned about it in my Intro. to Psych class forever ago, I never fully understood what it was and never thought it applied to me.  People rarely discuss this idea and they should.  I've been doing energy work for over 2 years now and this is the first I've heard of it in any way.  So much of the trauma I've been healing in myself is dissociation or the fragmentation of my identity to protect myself from physical, emotional or mental pain.  I didn't know there was a word for it.  Or specific symptoms.  Weirdly, Franny seems to know all about it.  He knows so many things!  Maybe I understand it now, because I'm older or not as close to it.  I don't know why I wasn't able to see how it applied to me, but basically almost everyone from my hometown seems to have some kind of dissociation.  Maybe it was so pervasive, I didn't think people lived any other way.  

I will explore this topic over the next couple podcasts.

I talk about how things are finally gelling, moving forward, coming together -- you name it.  I have a job, I was preapproved for a mortgage, my settlement is about to come through -- life is looking good.  I'm so grateful.  What a long time it took to get to this point....

I talk about how my back is doing after I pulled it out of whack two days earlier.  I talk about the lessons it has for me and how hard it is to move comfortable right now.

I talk about how I can't stop listening to 70's Easy Listening music right now.  I have gone through tons of music lists and my own memory banks searching for those feel good songs that are relaxing and work-appropriate.  I just love this genre of music, which I find rather hilarious.

I talk about getting my new suite of tuning forks and how excited I am to start using them and learn how to help people with this wonderful modality.

I talk about how some really great and important things finally came together this week after months and months and months of waiting, while other terrible things happened and how I just couldn't physically handle all the changes and challenges.

I talk about how my timeline has finally sped up in a huge way.  It's as though the logjam has finally broken up and now things are flowing.  It's a little unnerving how all these different balls that were up in the air are all starting to come down at once.