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Entries from June 2008

doodle

August 31st, 2007 · 5 Comments

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i finally have a workable scanner! yay! here’s one of my doodles.

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Tags: creativity: poetry, art, etc.

i don’t believe in god

August 30th, 2007 · 10 Comments

yes, i don’t believe in god.
“believing in god” makes no sense to me. i don’t know what it means. and it isn’t because english isn’t my mother tongue. i grew up speaking german, and the equivalent sentence – “ich glaube an gott” – seems equally incomprehensible to me.
perhaps i will understand one […]

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Tags: news and events · spirituality

why domestic? why abuse?

August 29th, 2007 · 5 Comments

an excerpt from a newspaper story from the UK:
top doctor who hit his wife 24 times is spared jail
a senior doctor who savagely beat up his wife after they argued about buying a new car has escaped a prison sentence. anaesthetics consultant stuart brown, 37, threw his wife to the floor and punched her […]

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Tags: news and events

flaming vs. appreciative communication

August 28th, 2007 · 8 Comments

yesterday, thomas from microsoft posted about blog reactions to some of robert scoble’s videos.
to those of you who don’t spend their day swimming around in the blogosphere (perhaps because your online life doesn’t completely consume all your hours?), robert scoble is a prominent speaker, author and blogger, particularly interested in the social aspects of the […]

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Tags: blogs of note · communication · peace, environment, social justice et al · the net

fractals, rorschach, tarot and meaning making

August 27th, 2007 · 8 Comments

a few weeks ago, i posted some musings about how fractals might be used in psychological research. how could we use fractals to literally illustrate – turn into a picture – some of our mental and emotional patterns?
some of the commenters interpreted this as a type of rorschach test. that was actually not […]

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Tags: creativity: poetry, art, etc. · psychological research and other things academic

guffs and schlopps: a bit of seutherapy

August 26th, 2007 · 3 Comments

dr. seuss never ceases to amaze me. maybe we should start “seutherapy” – aaah, the sound alone of the word already conjures up something great. soothing, subversive, seuss-y and let’s not forget suess – the german word for sweet.
if you think that dr. seuss is all about nonsense, you are, with due respect, […]

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Tags: creativity: poetry, art, etc. · therapy

my blogging heroines: women who go beyond

August 25th, 2007 · 12 Comments

i’m honoured that pamm from my secret spiritual dance included me in a list of outstanding women bloggers that’s going around right now. it was started by valeria maltoni of conversation agent.
do you want to know who my blogging heroines are?
quite a few, actually, but i’ll be brutal and limit them to seven. […]

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Tags: blogs of note

being differently abled: the good news

August 24th, 2007 · 5 Comments

yesterday, we discussed the tragic difficulties some people have with interacting with people who have bipolar disorder, are deaf, or have other so-called disabilities.
today for some good news regarding people with different abilities.
the other day i came across glenda from do it yourself. wow! this woman is amazing! she’s in a fancy […]

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Tags: creativity: poetry, art, etc. · depression and mental illness

fear, ignorance and disabilities

August 23rd, 2007 · 3 Comments

do you ever feel like you’re going through your days, and they have a theme? sometimes it feels like i’m being approached by a waiter: “and today’s special is …”
well, my special this week seems to be abilities, disabilities, different abilities – that whole box of themes.
it started with the ongoing story of paul […]

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Tags: depression and mental illness · news and events · peace, environment, social justice et al

trying vs. allowing

August 22nd, 2007 · 5 Comments

in connection with a project my blogger friend karen is working on, i was inspired to think about these two concepts:
trying.
allowing.
what might they mean?
of course words have such complex meanings, and how we experience them individually may vary immensely from person to person.
“trying” - the pleasant part of that, to me, is that it’s open […]

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Tags: emotional health

chocolate and broccoli

August 21st, 2007 · 2 Comments

so my blogger/twitter friend geert over in europe, in a small – no, i won’t say “tiny” - country wedged between a big one (france) and another small one (the netherlands) … in a tiny country called belgium, had the good heart to finally write another blog post in english. thanks to my continuous […]

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Tags: blogs of note

the weekend to end breast cancer - a transforming experience

August 20th, 2007 · 5 Comments

“she made it another year, she made it another year.” that’s all that went through my mind as i watched the crowd of walkers surge into the stadium.

yesterday afternoon was the celebration of another weekend to end breast cancer. one weekend a year, thousands of walkers, encouraged by tens of thousands of sponsors, […]

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Tags: cancer · news and events · peace, environment, social justice et al

mental illness and the arts

August 19th, 2007 · 4 Comments

over at finding optimism, there are two good little articles on famous and not-so-famous painters struggling with mental illness. take picasso, for example, who is said to have suffered from schizophrenia, or monet, who was dealing with depression.
an important topic, and we’ll be paying some more attention to it here at change therapy.
among […]

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Tags: creativity: poetry, art, etc. · depression and mental illness

copyright

August 18th, 2007 · 1 Comment

i’ve finally decided to put up a formal copyright note here in my blo. i’m choosing to do this as a blog post because i’d be interested in your thoughts and comments on this, whether you’re a reader or a blogger yourself. i’m sure this could be improved, and your input will be […]

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Tags: the net

good resumes, bad resumes

August 17th, 2007 · 3 Comments

today, my past as an employment counsellor is creeping up on me again. read all about it over at the job mob.
in my contribution, i’m asking: do you need help with resume writing?
if you’re looking for a job right now and it’s driving you crazy, maybe you’ll get some good ideas there.
and of course, […]

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Tags: general