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Ramble On - Or How I Get Through This Life
Well friends the Duggars are at it again. The Duggar family is preparing for the birth of their 17th child. Yes you read correctly...
For those of you unfamiliar with the Duggars, their approach to family planning is simple: They are born-again Christians who view the Bible as their life's manual – and the Bible describes children as a blessing from God. They will cheerfully accept as many blessings as God ordains.
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Asked why he put all of his rivals for the Republican presidential campaign -- those he surprisingly defeated -- into his cabinet, Lincoln said that they were the best men, and the nation was in peril and needed them. A more likely explanation could be summed up in a phrase favored by former US president Lyndon B. Johnson: "It's better to have your enemies inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in."
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The National Institute if Mental Health puts forth: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) develops after a terrifying ordeal that involved physical harm or the threat of physical harm. The person who develops PTSD may have been the one who was harmed, the harm may have happened to a loved one, or the person may have witnessed a harmful event that happened to loved ones or strangers. Link for more PTSD info[
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A friend of mine was telling me about an article he read concerning an enironmental disaster 20 miles west of Lincoln, Neb. caused by 12,000 heads of cattle. There wasn’t a stampede or outbreak of mad cow disease, but a pile of cow manure 100 feet long, 30 feet high and 50 feet wide that spontaneously combusted. Each of these cows eati approximately 25 pounds of food per day, resulting in 54 tons of manure every 24 hours.
Poo Mountain
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There is no such thing as child-proofing your house
If you hook a dog leash over a ceiling fan the motor is not strong enough to rotate a 42 pound boy wearing underwear and a superman cape
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Here I sit in a motel room in Oconomoc Wisconsin drilling down through my favorite blogs (because I can't sleep) and I stop at Ruined Music Link. This is a clever website and one that can be easily identified with. In the author's own words:
Most people have a song that’s been ruined. A breakup turns “our song” into “the one song I can never hear again.” A crush goes downhill and takes your favorite record with it. A best friend vanishes, leaving you holding the mixtape. Talent show disasters, high school humiliations, family crises… somehow there’s always a song playing in the background. Ruined Music collects essays about these songs we’ve lost. If music is the soundtrack to our lives, here are the scenes when it all went wrong.
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Some folks have contacted me offline to ask about what's new and of interest in the world of psychotherapy. I thought I would create a blog that might fit these requests. You can read more at Link
I thought I would also sprinkle in a little of the "bizarre" just for fun. Enjoy!
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"There's nothing inherently dirty about sex, but if you try real hard and use your imagination you can overcome that." (Lewis Grizzard)
I have no luck with women. I once went on a date and asked the woman if she'd brought any protection. She pulled a switchblade on me." (Scott Roeben
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I came across this at work and thought it was a riot....Learn and ENJOY! Please feel free to add your own...
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Human relationships are matters of skill and art. We tend to treat them as matters of convention. Whatever stands between you and that person stands between you and yourself. Far from loving all that breathes we sometimes do not ltreat those we purport to love in a caring manner. Life moves, things happen, when people care and love with their whole being....they glow.
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The last time I went to Oklahoma to visit friends, I stopped in Oklahoma City to visit the site of the April 19, 1995 bombing at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. I resisted visiting the memorial all these years. On April 19, 1995, I was teaching school and was in a meeting, when it was interrupted by the librarian who gave us the news. As many times as I have traveled to Oklahoma, I decided to strengthen my resolve and just do it.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with this event, Timothy McVeigh, 27 year old decorated U.S. Army veteran of the Persian Gulf War drove a truck bomb, of fertilizer and diesel fuel. This act of domestic terrorism, killed 168 people, including 19 children, and injured more than 500 others. McVeigh’s motive was to avenge a bloody 19 April 1993 federal raid on the Branch Davidian sect in Waco, Tex., in which some 80 people died. McVeigh was sentenced to death, and eventually admitted he carried out the strike
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Recently I visited Santa Fe New Mexico. Santa Fe was a beautiful place - the buildings were all in apricot colored adobe with narrow alleys of artisan shops surrounding a central plaza.
In the center of the plaza stands an obelisk with inscriptions such as “To the heroes who have fallen in the various battles with savage Indians in the territory of New Mexico
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I was thinking...as we all do when our children grow into adulthood.... I hope I didn't screw him up too badly or hope his therapist gets a kick out of some of the things I have actually said to him as his mother.
Sweetie, you can’t put raisins up your nose. Yes, I’m sure it does make them taste like boogers
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Every second of every day some 28,000 Americans are looking at Internet pornography.
There are over 4 million sites to choose from and 4 million Americans confess they are addicted. Stanford University has begun a study of online porn addiction with the preliminary results being surprising. Hell, the mayor of the town where my counseling office is located is a self proclaimed recovering sex addict. He is even a minister to a church where all of it's members are recovering from some kind of addiction.
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Personality theorists have argued for many years about whether psychological processes function in terms of mechanism or teleology. Mechanism is the idea that things work in through cause and effect: One thing leads to another which leads to another, and so on, so that the past determines the present. Teleology is the idea that we are lead on by our ideas about a future state, by things like purposes, meanings, values, and so on. Mechanism is linked with determinism and with the natural sciences. Teleology is linked with free will and has become rather rare. It is still common among moral, legal, and religious philosophers, and, of course, among personality theorists.
Freudians and behaviorists tend to be mechanists, while the neo-Freudians, humanists, and existentialists tend to be teleologists. Jung believes that both play a part. But he adds a third alternative called synchronicity
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The final principle of Jung's is the principle of entropy. This is the tendency for oppositions to come together, and so for energy to decrease, over a person's lifetime. Jung borrowed the idea from physics, where entropy refers to the tendency of all physical systems to "run down," that is, for all energy to become evenly distributed. If you have, for example, a heat source in one corner of the room, the whole room will eventually be heated.
When we are young, the opposites will tend to be extreme, and so we tend to have lots of energy. For example, adolescents tend to exaggerate male-female differences, with boys trying hard to be macho and girls trying equally hard to be feminine. And so their sexual activity is invested with great amounts of energy! Plus, adolescents often swing from one extreme to another, being wild and crazy one minute and finding religion the next
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Jung put forth that in the most general terms, our “True nature”… its essence is about realizing, within oneself, a dimension of con
sciousness that most people are as yet unaware of. Most human beings know only the "conditioned" dimension of consciousness: the stream of thoughts and concepts with which we are contin¬uously, totally identified. Human beings derive their whole sense of self from the workings of their minds, which, of course, are completely conditioned by one's culture, upbringing, surround¬ings, even genetics. We see ourselves basically as a mind-made narrative—a collection of memories, reactive pat¬terns, opinions, viewpoints—and we identify that bundle of memory and reactivity as "me." It becomes a self that, in essence, is what the Buddha spoke of when he discovered that the normal sense of identity is ultimately illusory. "The Story of Me" is the conceptual sense of self, and until I discover that there is more to me, a depth to me that I had not been aware of, life tends to be very shallow.
The mind-made self tends to be in opposition to the present moment, to what "is." The present is not enough or it's not right, it shouldn 't be as it is; and since the present moment is all there ever is, one is never aligned with life. One is basically against life
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The sixteen personality types which many therapists use in our assessment of interpersonal strengths are based on the well-known research of Carl Jung, Katharine C. Briggs, and Isabel Briggs Myers. Carl Jung first developed the theory that individuals each had a psychological type. He believed that there were two basic kinds of "functions" which humans used in their lives: how we take in information (how we "perceive" things), and how we make decisions. He believed that within these two categories, there were two opposite ways of functioning. We can perceive information via 1) our senses, or 2) our intuition. We can make decisions based on 1) objective logic, or 2) subjective feelings.
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