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- It's that time of year again when a new semester starts. I teach full time from my hospital chaplaincy years, death and dying classes to nursing students at a community college. It's been rewarding these 7 years I've done it since kidney disease...
- I just had a conversation via private message about what to do about panic attacks that made me think yet again about what's gotten me through them thus far. The frequency and power of mine seem to fluctuate. Lately, they've been coming on more...
- This is off topic, I know, but I wonder if I might be allowed to indulge myself for a moment here.As much as I'm inspired by celebrities and their work, I'm saddened by them, too, sometimes. I know it's dumb, I have enough grief in my life as it...
- I don't feel good today. I woke up that way. It's related somehow to being a guest in the home of friends yesterday. That makes me feel worse, because I feel like an ungrateful guest. They were nothing but nice to me, feeding me twice and...
- I had a DS PTSD member ask me about how to go from trauma like ours to compassion. Hey, good question, since it's a stretch for those of us whose entire familiarity is with abuse. We tend to stick to what we know. Compassion, then's, always a...
- You may have noticed that in the last few days our beloved SunCloud hasn't been able to post here as frequently as usual. That's because her computer went kerplunk, and she's spent the last few days on the market for a new one.I just got a private...
- Tomorrow I leave Mexico to go back to the States. Tomorrow, then, it's taxi cab anxiety, airport anxiety, airport security anxiety, boarding pass anxiety, boarding gate anxiety, wheelchair anxiety, customs agent anxiety, a little flight...
- Hey everybody! Just wanting to wish everyone Happy New Year from down here in Mexico. I bought a ticket to go to the New Year's Eve fiesta at the Old Mexican restaurant across the street from my hotel. There will be a house band, margaritas will be...
- I'm just curious to hear from other CL's how Christmas went for your members in your groups. In my PTSD group, it went better than expected, I'm happy to say. I was worried, as I posted about here leading up to the Christmas holiday, about some...
- TW PW (politics warning)I put an unusual PW at the top of this post because although this topic is personal to me, it may be touchy for some member who may be partisan to what I'm talking about here. Sorry, I only mean to vent about my abuser,...
- I took your advice yesterday and instead of posting here I talked a pharmacist into replacing my meds for me. YAY! Then in the evening I got a nice surprise: as several of you said, my airline found my suitcase! It had just arrived from New...
- I just got in to my little hotel in Mexico at 2am. The airline lost my luggage. Ay, caramba! When I reported it at the airport the airline's clerk was rude to me. I was tired by the end of my trip and I asked for a chair to sit in while...
- I'm really excited that I've made it healthy enough to leave for Mexico in the morning to spend Christmas and New Year's there. It's this years plan to be creative about spending Christmas solo since I decided to stop returning to violent...
- One thing I find to be the major stressor now for members in my group is that, against all common sense, they force themselves to go back for Christmas to the homes they were abused in. Pointing out the obvious doesn't deter them, they feel...
- I'm venting, y'all. Last time I took a sick day my boss sent the community college's disability officer to me to challenge me as to whether I could do the job.So I bundled up and went in the snow to today's all college meeting, but when I got...