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User Blogs
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
If youve ever had a tendency to feel indispensible, a good run-in with CFS will cure you of that.
You will discover in short order that you are indeed dispensible, and possibly even forgotten, faster than you can imagine.
It is a heartbreak.
And it is a...
Monday, July 20, 2009
If an area is cordoned off and you dont heed the warning and go ahead anyway, dont be surprised if you fall through.
All those symptoms making our lives a misery? Cautionary signs weve been ignoring and then were surprised when we crash.
Our idiot lights are...
Saturday, July 18, 2009
I'd like to say I do this for the good of mankind. That that's why I write here.
I'd like mankind to be healthy and happy, don't get me wrong.
But I am not here on the net for mankind.
I am here for me.
Because the silence from the rest of the world has been...
Friday, July 17, 2009
My world had gotten very small.
I would look around and see, really, nothing out there for me, beyond my own four walls.
Suffocating. Depressing. Infuriating.
So I took a leap through the portal of my laptop, into the virtual world of the net.
The reason I am...
Monday, July 13, 2009
I guess its been a good week. I know it has.
Yet I feel unsatisfied.
That seems strange to me. I am involved in things that just three months ago would have been beyond my ability to imagine. If youd told me then what the next three months would hold, I would have...
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Lazarus! Come forth!
Imagine Lazarus, appearing in the opening to the tomb, still wrapped in his graveclothes, a miracle standing before the people
and everybody just wandered away
leaving good ol Lazarus to unravel himself and figure out his own way back into...
Friday, July 3, 2009
Its my husband Alans birthday today.
He is celebrating by having an emissions test done on the car, and going to get a licence sticker for it.
Birthday dinner tonight is steak with mushrooms, broccoli with cheese sauce, coffee with cream (18 %) and caramel chocolate...
Thursday, July 2, 2009
I feel like Rip Van Winkle, after he woke up, looking around at a changed world.
I speak of the virtual world of the internet.
Two months ago I set out to have my own website and felt rather smug that so much was familiar, even after six years absence. However...
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Happy Canada Day, all.
Or for the old-time purists like myself, Happy Dominion Day.
I am celebrating by starting a real blog. I had my website before I was able to get a real blog going, so had a journal of sorts for the last couple of months. But this is way...
I've use this little technique more often and more successfully than any other. It's not as powerful as the Amygdala Retraining technique but it's easier and for me it's more consistent.
The neuro- reprogramming technique came to me while I was reading a book by Norman Doidge called "The...
The AR retraining blog is back and I'm a little embarrassed. The problem is that I've not been doing the training that much. Recently I've found that the 'world'
pulls me in too much. The dog pulls me in greatly since it's so hard to see this vigorous dog sit around with his mopey eyes. The...