Amanda Palmer and Courtnee Fallon Rex Photographed by Steve Kuhn The Art of Asking Book Tour. Sat, November 22, 2014. First Unitarian Church – Los Angeles When I was young, I thought I had all the answers. Or at least, I thought I knew the problems, the deeper causes of the things I was seeing… Continue reading Finding Amanda: An internet love story
Tag: Year of the Nee
Bad/failed relationships? READ THIS.
Oof.
This AMAZING article is saying all the stuff I’m living but hadn’t articulated yet.
Preparing us for marriage is, ideally, an educational task that falls on culture as a whole. We have stopped believing in dynastic marriages. We are starting to see the drawbacks of Romantic marriages. Now comes the time for psychological marriages.
http://www.thebookoflife.org/how-we-end-up-marrying-the-wrong-people/
PTSD no moe
EXPERIMENT: Cognitive Process Therapy to address nearly 30 years of a Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: Fin. Here are the results.
In black and white.
As some of you may know, part of my Year of the Nee (my year of celibacy and no intoxicants) that I began in May (Half way!! WOOO!) included seeking out a more formalized psychotherapy approach. In doing so, I ended up at the Sexual Assault and Traumatic Stress unit at Harborview with a diagnosis,… Continue reading In black and white.
I own a bladder full of dead people
So I have this solar plexus that usually has a big black tar knot in it. Rarely in my life have I not had that knot, and the times it’s seemed to have melted off were times of extreme gladness — new relationships, summer vacations, purring warmly on the beach — of intimacy and of… Continue reading I own a bladder full of dead people
Experiment: Daily Post-it challenge
Challenge: A post-it sketch in ballpoint for every day in August. Duration: One month Compendious Result: Fine for 8 days, then trainwreck failure — and I’m ok with that. This was one of many, many production challenges I’ve given myself over the years, none of which I’ve completed fully. It is said in most circles… Continue reading Experiment: Daily Post-it challenge
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Sometimes, I remember what it was like to let someone who knew me hold me. Conjugated, wordless. Someone who watched me churn and struggle with you and cry so hard I choked on myself. Cry so hard my face felt like it was going to fill and burst with blood and fall off. Sometimes, I… Continue reading V
Year Of The Nee: 2.5 months
Today, I experienced that moment, when you find out you have unlimited mental health visits. There were tears. Today, I also experienced the facilitation of my first Grief Recovery Method practice group, an 8 week course I began teaching this evening. I was really stunned at how knowledgable I am about the realities of grief… Continue reading Year Of The Nee: 2.5 months
Experiment: The June of Noncomplaint
The challenge: Stop complaining The duration: A whole month Compendious Result: Moderate success! I complain less, have an idea of the difference between social/productive complaints and the sticky grumpymaking kind, and am generally content to not only think less caustic-denouncingly, but express less of it too. Yep. My goal, was to not complain for a… Continue reading Experiment: The June of Noncomplaint
New Holiday: June 27, name day
Seared scallops, roasted garlic, crispy kale, heirloom tomatoes and avocado slices in a miso and butter broth with fresh lemon. Created by me, for me, to celebrate a day I became more me. Also; I had an ice cream cone. 😀