Posted in Artfest, psychology on April 12, 2008 | No Comments »
I finally got out of bed at 6pm, and my mommy came over and took me out for a veggie burger at White Spot. After being sick, this is my meal to signify to the universe that I am better. However, I still feel atrocious, but mostly a complete lack of energy. [...]
Posted in psychology on February 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/080219/K021906AU.html
Is that what stops divorce? Having sex everyday for a month? Aren’t you glad that someone figured out how to save marriages? Who knew it was just one little thing. You might say it is a little simplistic, but not me. Oh, no! I believe all complex, multi factorial problems [...]
Posted in Freud, Unconscious mutterings, psychoanalytic, psychology on February 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Oh, something psychoanalytic! Free associations… I am of course not a fan of Freud - that is so gauche in our postmodern therapy world. At least when I come from (Aka not New York).
So I must disassociate myself from the parts that do quite enjoy Freud and agree with some of his [...]
Posted in Type 1 diabetes, medical, psychology, thesis, tagged happy, hopeful on February 6, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Again, the thesis.
I know, just get it done. It sounds so simple and easy. However, it is not.
Some givens (bear with me) :
I am smart
I am terrific at research
I have an ability to sort things out and organize information
I work well under pressure (usually)
I am stubborn, determined and above all, a survivor
So how [...]
Posted in psychology, thesis, tagged depressed, frustrated, stuck on February 4, 2008 | No Comments »
I keep hitting a wall. Yes, this is about the thesis. Again.
I get on a roll, and feel like I have a handle on it, then it evaporates. It should not be this difficult! I have never had a hard time writing a paper before. That really is all it is, [...]
Posted in Art, medical, mixed media, psychology on January 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have been sick the last couple of days, so have accomplished very little. I have, in my periods of being upright, been playing with microscope slides, alcohol inks, and my pastels. I also received rubber stamps from Teesha Moore. Her stamps are really cool and I am enjoying them a lot.
I [...]
Posted in Sunday Scribblings, psychology on January 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Today’s topic at Sunday Scribblings is Fellow Travellers. There are so many different ways to look at the topic, and choosing is hard…
The thing I was thinking about when I got on the computer this morning was how it is really hard not to have a community. I recently banned myself from a [...]
Posted in language, psychology on January 16, 2008 | No Comments »
(It’s snowing, it’s snowing, it’s snowing!!!!)
From Wikipedia:
Perspective in theory of cognition is the choice of a context or a reference (or the result of this choice) from which to sense, categorize, measure or codify experience, cohesively forming a coherent belief, typically for comparing with another. One may further recognize a number of subtly distinctive meanings, [...]
Posted in counselling, psychology, thesis on January 13, 2008 | No Comments »
So back to the idea of relapse prevention… What, you say, you have never talked about relapse prevention! Well, I was and am talking about it in the non-drug sense. My time working in addictions counselling taught me a lot about relapse prevention, and I of course related it to maintaining other positive behaviours.
This is [...]
