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The softer side of growing up in a dysfunctional home... a sanctuary to feel home with friends and never alone.
Wow... sorry I have been gone for awhile. That old Jackson Browne song fits me well right now "Running On Empty."
The last two or three weeks I have been doing intense physical work at my job... up until this point I have spent a majority of my time behind a desk... well with the way the economy is we are running a few bones short of a skeleton crew and it literally is "all hands on deck."
I am so grateful that I still am in good enough shape to do physical labor for eight or nine hours a day. It does make for a lazy evening and a very heavy sleep and I truly do enjoy my weekends and catching up on long sleep ins.
Besides that, on August 1st, I passed my test to become a certified NLP Practitioner and decided to keep going and get my certification for that as a "Master Practitioner." I haven't even started that yet and won't even look at it until the third week in September.
Why then? Everything is finalized and payment received for me to appear in Hot Springs, Arkansas at their annual recovery event. I was never comfortable with the word "speech" - that I was going there to give a speech. It kind of made me feel the pressure that it had to be perfect. I owe Karen a big thank you, for changing that word for me to "share." I'm going to Hot Springs... to share.
For me, this year has been productive and very much educational, as far as what I'm learning in organized studies as well as what I continue to learn about myself.
I have really become a mellow person. It is really hard for me to get my anger up... maybe I'm just too tired to absorb any of it. But I'm just content with who I am and where I am at this stage in my life.
Sanctuary seems to be a little quiet and I do think many of us just kind of have our ebbs and flows with different things in our lives.
All I want to say is I love you all, hope you all have had an awakening this summer and found a new strength to keep moving forward.
Whoops, when I'm tired I can really start to ramble. LOL...
You are all in my thoughts and prayers,
Good night,
Dave
The last two or three weeks I have been doing intense physical work at my job... up until this point I have spent a majority of my time behind a desk... well with the way the economy is we are running a few bones short of a skeleton crew and it literally is "all hands on deck."
I am so grateful that I still am in good enough shape to do physical labor for eight or nine hours a day. It does make for a lazy evening and a very heavy sleep and I truly do enjoy my weekends and catching up on long sleep ins.
Besides that, on August 1st, I passed my test to become a certified NLP Practitioner and decided to keep going and get my certification for that as a "Master Practitioner." I haven't even started that yet and won't even look at it until the third week in September.
Why then? Everything is finalized and payment received for me to appear in Hot Springs, Arkansas at their annual recovery event. I was never comfortable with the word "speech" - that I was going there to give a speech. It kind of made me feel the pressure that it had to be perfect. I owe Karen a big thank you, for changing that word for me to "share." I'm going to Hot Springs... to share.
For me, this year has been productive and very much educational, as far as what I'm learning in organized studies as well as what I continue to learn about myself.
I have really become a mellow person. It is really hard for me to get my anger up... maybe I'm just too tired to absorb any of it. But I'm just content with who I am and where I am at this stage in my life.
Sanctuary seems to be a little quiet and I do think many of us just kind of have our ebbs and flows with different things in our lives.
All I want to say is I love you all, hope you all have had an awakening this summer and found a new strength to keep moving forward.
Whoops, when I'm tired I can really start to ramble. LOL...
You are all in my thoughts and prayers,
Good night,
Dave
Well Friend I Worried about you since I hadn't heard from you in so Long.... But I Must Say, It Sounds as Tho Your are Doing WONDERFUL... I Believe that Sound Like Even Thriving to me :) Your Strength shines thru as does your Love for what you do, I am Always Happy to Hear Someone Keep Moving Forward... Good for you..
I Pray someday to Find the Peace You have, and the Calm... :) Trusting I'm right were I'm Meant to be...
Glad you Stopped by... Missed Your ESH :0)
Love & Prayers always...
1Ness...
Lovely to hear from you on DS again & lovely to know you are ok and doing well!
Unfortunately I don't need to be tired to 'ramble' *giggling* Anyhow!You're not rambling.....infact I quite like rambling thoughts anyway! *giggling*
Well done on yr NLP!!!!!!
Yes, the word 'speech' for me would fill me with apprehension and dread ! EEK! Kind of also infers a them and us....I always prefer 'share'. Takes the pressure off!
YOU will do great!!!!!!!
I always tell myself to not forget that my Higher Power is speaking through me and it's in His hands. That way I seem to always be fine. And !!!!!! never forget (((Dave))) what comes form the heart reaches and touches the heart! That always helps me.
Much love
Karen xx
what is your certification do??? sorry 2 sound ignorant, but congrats and WHAT IS IT???? LOL:))))
Rosie... NLP is very similar to CBT. While therapy can last for years NLP can usually find a solution in two or three sessions. There are people who need intense therapy by trained licensed professionals... while others know what is going on but just can't seem to make the necessary changes... this is how I described it on my website...
"So what is NLP? This is what I wrote on my final exam when explaining what it meant to me. “NLP can be viewed as a toolbox that has all the information available to help people change. It offers a restructuring of life. It involves techniques that show, spiritually and physically, our potential power to change and to grow. It empowers a person on their journey to fulfilling their own goals. Through it all NLP shows that it isn't about controlling people, but rather by helping one self we are able to help others.” And I concluded by saying in its simplest terms NLP is, “finding the excellence within and
championing one's own power.”