Tag Archives: Adult Attachment Interview

New Year Gratitude

And now, the New Year’s face of trauma recovery:  I am so grateful for how wonderful I feel this year!  That’s why I wanted you to see some of my holiday pictures – so that when I tell you in … Continue reading

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Survival Instinct

#18: Last book blog from “Don’t Try This at Home,” Chapter 3 Last time, I was in the hospice with Mom in 2008 and Dr. Rita told me to “just disengage.”  “I can’t disengage, she’s my Mom and she may … Continue reading

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Mommy Doesn’t Like Me

#17 in my book blogs from “Don’t Try This at Home,” Chapter 3 I bet that title got your attention. Hey, most of my life I thought it was no big deal. I just always took it for granted that … Continue reading

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Excommunication Blues

#16 in my book blogs from “Don’t Try This at Home,” Chapter 3 Last time, I wrote that just when I thought 2008 couldn’t get any worse, October-November 2008 with Mom in the hospice in Florida turned out to be … Continue reading

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Thanksgiving in Cambodia

#15 in my book blogs from “Don’t Try This at Home,” Chapter 3 “Once again”  I thought, “Fall 2008 surely was the end of my world. Surely it could get no worse than this.”  So ended “Isolation Row,” my last … Continue reading

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From the Butt End of Evolution

Fear with a capital F has been bred deep into our neurons since man first walked the earth. Neurobiologists call it the “negativity bias” of the brain.  For most of history, our brains needed to fear a stick far more … Continue reading

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Substance Abuse or Survival?

Substance Abuse or Survival Mechanism? What the ACE Study Tells Us About – Ourselves …  November 8 Last Friday Nov. 1, down the road from county Mental Health Services in San Diego, CA, eleven local activists from the mental health, … Continue reading

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Isolation Row

#14 in my ongoing book blogs from “Don’t Try This at Home” Last week my second therapist Dr. Rita was telling me to “heal yourself” to where I was reduced to singing Verdi arias about being doomed to live alone … Continue reading

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Down the Rabbit Hole

#13 in my ongoing book blogs from “Don’t Try This at Home” When Dr. Rita heard about my exploits last week with “The Inner Child Workbook” and the applesauce caper, she said, “Well, I thought you could do some reading, … Continue reading

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What Inner Child?

#12 in my ongoing book blogs from “Don’t Try This at Home” In my last post, group therapy put me through the floor. “Start with the wounded child inside you,” Dr. Matt repeated. “Then introduce your care-giving adult to your … Continue reading

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