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BLAST FROM THE PAST!

Re-post from 2013! That's right...I wrote this in January 2013. Nearly 6 years ago. I titled it: "Emotional baggage...From our caveman days." Comments welcome...from my 1-2 readers. And before you dive in...I fully intend on writing an epilogue to this post. A "Where Are They Now" of sorts, wherein, they = me. ------------------------------- JANUARY 14, 2013 Today's post is brought to you by: Lunch Hour:  "The time for eating reheated soup...and blogging!" I have been thinking a lot about emotions recently. Probably because I am reading Dr. David Hawkins' most recent book:  Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender.  It was his final work before he passed away. I have read a lot of his stuff (spoiler alert), and it gets pretty heady and hard to digest. Sometimes I would only be able to read a page or two in one sitting because I thought my head was going to explode. This book is different. It is extremely accessible, readable, and app
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Therapy: Part 1

Why in the world is therapy effective? Over the years I have heard many people ponder, sometimes just to themselves, about how therapy works. I too have wondered this, and I am an actual therapist. It really is a seemingly mystical process: you go to into an office with someone you have just met, and you tell them about your struggles with the hope that they will somehow be lessened. There is a South Park episode in which Underpants Gnomes travel the world stealing underpants. When asked why they are stealing underpants, they unveil a diabolical plan that looks like this: Phase 1: Collect Underpants Phase 2: ? Phase 3: PROFIT To me, therapy seems a lot like this plan, with a glaring question mark in the middle. Phase 1: Tell a stranger about my problems Phase 2: ? Phase 3: Healing/change/growth and ultimately feeling better occurs So what happens in Phase 2? Well, that depends on several factors. Therapy is one of the least-uniform processes out there. In the medical
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CONFESSION

Okay. I have to get something off my chest. I believe in reincarnation. I also believe we come here to this human life to evolve our spirit. I think it's possible to evolve enough to not have to come back here, to this human life. For the past eleven years I have been involved in this process of evolution. There have been periods of seriously slow going. There have been sudden leaps where I made great progress. There has been a lot of crazy shit. But before I get into all of that, though, let me say that I think blogging is inherently sort of narcissistic. Like, who really cares what I have to say? I am not trying to be self-deprecating, but come on. I am one of billions of people on this planet. My little opinions on things do not really matter. This is part of why I don't really participate in social media. We have all become so self-obsessed. MYSELF INCLUDED. I am not placing myself above this. OKAY? Soooo... if this is my belief, why would I bother to write? W
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The Un-Crisis

Today I experienced what I call an Un-Crisis. This is a term I thought of today at one o'clock in the afternoon, when my blood pressure is just now returning to normal. You know, the point at which you can circle back to something maddening that happened and look at it with some degree of objectivity. That wasn't the case at 9 am this morning, though. I was super ready for work: I had lunch and dinner packed and breakfast ready to be eaten on the car ride, coffee in my mug. About to walk out the door. Then I realized the garbage was a little smelly. "It'll take me two seconds to run it outside to the dumpster!" I thought. So I grabbed my keys and the trash. What a responsible adult I was, taking out the garbage in the morning instead of letting it sit all day! Moments after the door to the alley clicked shut behind me, I looked down to see that the lanyard that holds my keys was missing something. Oh yeah. My keys. It took a couple of minutes for the reality
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