The first in a series, I think: Things I needed to learn before I could be “healthy”. My happiness is my responsibilty. If I’m not pursuing the things that make my life fulfilling, they aren’t going to happen. Allowing other people to make decisions for me was never going to bring me happiness. Remember, the…
I’m happy with my life. For really the first time in my 33 years of life, I’m really, truly happy, and have been for some time now. Not that everything’s perfect, there are still challenges and changes ahead, as in any life. But I’m really content with the way things are now, and where they…
Over a week later and, yet again, I find myself disappointed in myself. I don’t know what it is, guilt, bad self image, what? It seems that every time I do less than perfectly at anything I just want to crawl into a hole and give up. Every time I disappoint someone else, especially, I…
Interesting email discussion over the last few days about dissociation. There are so many ways that people dissociate, even in everyday life, that it’s sometimes hard to pin down exactly what we mean. Dissociation can be something as extreme as multiple personalities or fugue states, but can also be used to describe daydreaming or “highway…
