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I signed up for the correct Photoshop class and bible study. Bible study mostly to get out of the house although I could do tai chi at that time. We'll see how it goes. I never connected with anyone in a bible study before so I will just try it and see how it goes. I have got to stay busy and think.
While this is a rhetorical question, I can imagine for her she needs to keep this boundary to feel she's surviving. As for what it is or was she felt threatened her surviving, obviously I don't know.
I hope the best for you Lane, even if it means you being at peace without a relationship with her. In other words I hope there's no guilt or shame draining you.
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I hope the best for you Lane, even if it means you being at peace without a relationship with her. In other words I hope there's no guilt or shame draining you.
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Once again for about the nine hunredth time; in interacting with someone, in this case a neighbor who needed a hand with something, I talked too much. They were polite and super kind about it, though I noticed them noticing. My mind will simply not shut down the pathway from brain to mouth sometimes, especially when I'm a little nervous. I hadn't even had any coffee yet as this happened early in the morning. I was in the midst of starting to make it when they knocked. Actually I'd of been more confident and focused if I had had some coffee. It doesn't really matter. I know I'm not a bad person I'm just so utterly tired of this brain, tired the stress of being the way I am.
Thank you for the support @Lane and @Something.idk
It's called "when things fall apart," by Pema Chodron. Another good one by her is "The Places that Scare You." In fact that was the first book that my first therapist, ever, said I should get into after hearing about my PTSD issues. HTH 
She has quite a few, but they are more advanced topics within Buddhism so I would not recommend starting there. You don't have to be Buddhist, but it would, IMHO, be ideal to get familiar with her earlier titles before moving into more recent ones.
She has quite a few, but they are more advanced topics within Buddhism so I would not recommend starting there. You don't have to be Buddhist, but it would, IMHO, be ideal to get familiar with her earlier titles before moving into more recent ones.
I've been searching for networking (in-person) events online. Not getting anywhere. The very few that are within driving distance are all for populations I am not a member of, e.g., women, women of color, ages 30-45, etc., and the rest are specific to career fields that I have no interest or experience in, like Communications or (yuk!) running an AirBnB. Oh well, I'm going to keep searching but when I see stuff about how professionals over 40 had better get into entrepreneurism, I really feel like it's entirely hopeless and I should just go kms right now, or at least start smoking again. I know, I'm being lame, but I'm also even more stressed out now than I was when I started.
I don’t have any specific examples, but rather that when she talks about how she was before getting started with meditation, I found that extremely relatable. This is as opposed to senior Tibetan lamas that started in the monastery before they started walking and did a 3 year solitary retreat in a mountain cave as adults. I am not on that level.
She communicates in stories, for the most part, and she anticipates questions that we are naturally going to have if we find ourselves with her book in hand. Well, it’s actually stuff that her readers write her about, e.g., how many readers feel like the “worst person in the world.”
It’s not a collection of tools, though, which is why I say it’s not a self-help book. It’s more about recognizing our human condition, especially when it’s painful to look at. It’s also about acceptance, now that I think about it. However, she doesn’t use that word too much, nor does she get into the browbeating cliches like telling the reader not to let people live rent free in your head, or similar things that assume you have not already tried anything and simply being told what to do is all you need.
She tells it in such a genuine and open-hearted manner that I found it very helpful to just know that I’m not the only one (aka the worst person in the world, lol).
ok, that’s my book report. Do I get an “A”?
She communicates in stories, for the most part, and she anticipates questions that we are naturally going to have if we find ourselves with her book in hand. Well, it’s actually stuff that her readers write her about, e.g., how many readers feel like the “worst person in the world.”
It’s not a collection of tools, though, which is why I say it’s not a self-help book. It’s more about recognizing our human condition, especially when it’s painful to look at. It’s also about acceptance, now that I think about it. However, she doesn’t use that word too much, nor does she get into the browbeating cliches like telling the reader not to let people live rent free in your head, or similar things that assume you have not already tried anything and simply being told what to do is all you need.
She tells it in such a genuine and open-hearted manner that I found it very helpful to just know that I’m not the only one (aka the worst person in the world, lol).
ok, that’s my book report. Do I get an “A”?