I’ve mentioned before that before starting with a new counselor it is important to interview them just like any other person you would hire for a job. I decided not to go with one counselor after the second visit because it was so obvious by her actions that she knew very little about working with…
I explored James Ryan’s speech on good questions this week. I hope you had time to read the speech for yourself. Here is his summary: My claim is that if you regularly ask: wait, what, I wonder, couldn’t we at least, how can I help, and what really matters, when it comes time to ask…
I work at a high school. Over and over again the teachers ask, “Do you have any questions?” Students are absolutely silent. Then they begin their work and becomes painfully obvious that they needed to ask questions. I learned to do this myself. I asked questions about everything. When I first worked in a computer…
There are questions and then there are QUESTIONS. I believe in asking questions. This article went on to identify and clarify several things that I believe about questions. The first type of question James Ryan identifies is the question that is really an insult or a put down. https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/16/05/good-questions Some questions are used to intimidate…
Can anything good come out of childhood trauma? I read several articles that all relate to each other in my head. Hopefully I can share them with you in a way the makes sense. Resolving Post-traumatic Stress is a web page that is maintained by a therapist. He explains in a fairly straight forward way…
Over on my other blog I am answering a series of questions asked by another bloggers daughter. This is where the questions came from: http://voicesofglass.wordpress.com/2014/09/12/questions-to-a-parent-with-mental-illness-a-new-challenge/ The original blogger Kevin is writing amazing answers. My answers are a few days later. I don’t read Kevin’s until after I write my own. I know my own mind’s…
PTSD - Accepting, Coping, Thriving 