Quick Update
Thank you all for the comments on my last post, the The Ache of Longing and Loss. I have read all of them and so appreciate the thoughtful feedback and outpouring of support. But once again, my life is...
View Article(Belated) Happy New Year!
Greetings Gentle Readers, I want to wish everyone a Happy New Year and hope that the coming year is filled with peace, healing and self-discovery! I am presently on vacation and will have no internet...
View ArticleA Re-enactment or How Transference is a B**** Part I
Greetings gentle readers, I’m back from vacation, which was quite refreshing. I have not been blogging for several reasons: work was a bit busy (I am the technical documentation department so nothing...
View ArticleA Re-enactment or How Transference is a B**** Part II
This is the second part of a two part series, part one can be found here. So I showed for the next session, prepared to tackle the topic again. After telling him quite emphatically that I did not want...
View ArticleQuick Update
Hi All, He’s doing very well, but my husband went into Afib this morning and ended up having a cardio revert done in the emergency room. Looks like he’s coming home, but for obvious reasons it will...
View ArticleHoly Water by Big and Rich
I was listening to an OLD playlist on Itunes that I haven’t listened to in quite some time, and a song I had forgotten about popped up. It’s an incredibly powerful and moving song about healing from...
View ArticleBig Girl Panties
I interrupt my normal blogging content in order to get a rant off my chest. The last few weeks, ok, months, have been long and frustrating. As the final straw, I got a flat tire yesterday morning on...
View ArticleFeeling a Little Too Much
Disclaimer: I need to talk about how I’m feeling, but am close to certain that at least some of what I am feeling has a lot more to do with the past than what is going on here and now. Not sure I’m up...
View ArticleThe Retirement of a Therapist – Part I
This is the first in a two-part series. For part II, see Retirement of a Therapist – Part II. Pinkmom76 left a comment on the Ask AG page because her therapist is retiring in four months and she...
View ArticleRetirement of a Therapist – Part II
This is the second in a two-part series. For part I, see Retirement of a Therapist – Part I When we left off, I had brought you to the point of finding out my therapist was retiring, my mixed reactions...
View ArticleResources for Healing Attachment Disorders
I was back-tracking an interesting search query that led someone to my blog and ran across a great web site that was one of the Google search results. From what I saw, this has links to a lot of great...
View ArticleHow Would a Friendship with Your Therapist Work?
Attachment Girl:If you’ve ever wondered why you can’t be friends (or more) with your therapist, I refer you to this excellent explanation by Dr. Stein. Originally posted on Dr. Gerald Stein - Blogging...
View ArticleExistential Freefall – Part I
I was going to name this post “Existential Freefall or What I’ve Been Trying to Remember for 20 years (Well, 50 Really)” but that seemed a bit unwieldy, even for me, so I went with the shorter version....
View ArticleExistential Freefall – Part II
This is the second part of a two part series, for part I, see Existential Freefall – Part I So in my last post, I explained the background and issues I was taking into my session last Friday (and then...
View ArticleTriggered or Freefall continued.
I am on a two-week break from BN (Almost done, I see him Friday). Our last session was spent discussing my recovering the existential free fall memory and was very helpful. I’ve been doing a lot of...
View ArticleFreedom, A Cool Wind That Burns Your Face – Part I
Tiny Tom:I’m frightened! Bobby: As well you should be. Freedom is scary. It’s a blast of cool wind that burns your face to wake you up. – Run, Freedom, Run from Urinetown the Musical Greetings gentle...
View ArticleFreedom, A Cool Wind That Burns Your Face – Part II
Tiny Tom:I’m frightened! Bobby: As well you should be. Freedom is scary. It’s a blast of cool wind that burns your face to wake you up. – Run, Freedom, Run from Urinetown the Musical This is part II...
View ArticleNot quite the rest I was hoping for…
Greeting Gentle Readers, I still have a number of comments to catch up on, but it’s been slow going. We got back about a week ago from a vacation, during which I had fully intended to get caught up,...
View ArticleThat’s enough now
I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed at the moment; actually part of being overwhelmed is not really knowing how I’m feeling. And not sure where to start to explain, so this may be a bit round-about and...
View ArticleEncouragement for Those Who Are Weary
Greetings gentle readers, I ran across an old song I haven’t heard in years that I wanted to share. I loved the song when it first came out in 1979 (for those of you born after that year, there is no...
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