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Jul 24, 20132 min read
Third and Last Part of Beliefs
Beliefs need to use all of our altruistic instincts for group survival. If our group is handicapped so are we. WWII was a very...
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Jul 4, 20132 min read
Step Three, We Must Believe
The third step of the brain is to take what has been perceived, what has been feared and desired and make a plan to avoid or approach the...
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Jun 12, 20132 min read
Step Two, Lessen Fear and Increase Empathy
Step two, is to control our fears and increase our love and cooperation with others, to build relationships, businesses, and families....
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May 23, 20132 min read
Step One Perception
How do we improve our perception? It is effected by our emotions, beliefs, and habits. They tell us what to look for. This causes great...
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Apr 26, 20131 min read
The Steps of the Brain
Our brains go through a feedback loop. First we perceive the world though our senses, sight and hearing being in the back and then back...
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Apr 18, 20131 min read
It's Time I Talk About How to Compensate for Community and Agency Handicaps
I am going to address how we can improve ourselves and our handicaps or how to get around them and those of our communities. How we can...
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Apr 11, 20132 min read
Handicaps of Schools and Agencies
Public schools have a real handicap that is severe in the crime neighborhoods. As I said before, the teachers can not mix with the...
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Apr 4, 20132 min read
Cities Have Personality Disorders
Groups of people are made up different personalities and personality disorders. These personalities combine and create a group...
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Mar 26, 20131 min read
The Inherent Problem of Agencies and Schools
Schools go through about a ten year cycle. They are governed by government mandates and limits that slows down change and traditions that...
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Mar 20, 20131 min read
I Was Not Prepared By College For Community Handicaps
As I said before, I had three jobs, one as a family counselor with an old well established agency, the second working with sex offenders,...
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Feb 28, 20131 min read
You Learn A Lot Handicapped
You learn many useful things when you are handicapped that is of value through life. You learn to keep going when you feel uncomfortable....
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Feb 19, 20132 min read
More Things To Do When Handicapped
About the time you begin to feel comfortable with Child Protective Services (CPS), you are doing everything they want you to, they have...
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Feb 8, 20132 min read
What Should We Do When We Are Handicapped
What should we do when we are handicapped? We need to rethink everything. Our usual thoughts are the average thoughts that people think,...
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Feb 8, 20132 min read
Politics, Politics, and More Politics
When a Child Protective Service (CPS) worker takes your child because of suspected abuse the last thing you want to do is get defensive...
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Jan 31, 20132 min read
Blind to Politics Is As Good As Blind.
There is nothing so heart wrenching then to be caught up in the politics of Child Protective Services (CPS), when child abuse is...
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Jan 22, 20133 min read
The Politics Get Worse If We Do Not Get Better
But, again, the politics can be even worse as I found out later, at the third job. We are not taught in college about the specifics of...
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Jan 16, 20132 min read
Politics Makes Us All Handicapped
I knew I could not compete for a supervisory position because of the extra paperwork. But I loved hands on counseling. I could of became...
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Jan 9, 20133 min read
School Politics or Not, Politics is always there.
When I graduated, I took on three part time jobs, one full time, the other two ten to twenty hours a week. I was a new counselor and very...
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Jan 3, 20132 min read
The Final Oral Defense, The Final Step
I did not know what to expect on the final step, a meeting with faculty that determines if you get the degree you spent years to prepare...
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Dec 25, 20122 min read
Stalemate, an endless game of ping pong and an Unsung Hero
My advisor would send back my disertation with corrections. I would make them and send it back. It always came back with more. I started...
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Dec 25, 20122 min read
The Next Try Was Success But Another Set Back
One step forward, one step back, or at lease one foot nailed to the floor. I passed my prelims with not problems as the conditions were...
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Dec 17, 20122 min read
We Can Not Predict the Future Only Build It
I studied my lists intensely and was ready for the four days of testing. The night before I was to leave and travel 300 miles to take...
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Dec 12, 20122 min read
Everything Had To Fit Together Like a Jigsaw Puzzle
My task was to make a list of words to jog my memory. I knew I was a top down learner, that is I had to see the whole picture first as I...
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Dec 4, 20121 min read
A Blessing In Disguise
I did not feel good about my prelims. I waited for the mail, the uneventful moment of opening the envelope and reading that I had failed....
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Nov 28, 20122 min read
Finally, the Truth Comes Forward, Answers
Then the answers began to come. The math teacher said she thought I was unsociable because I did not go to the Tavern with the others....
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Nov 20, 20121 min read
The Suspect Does Not Know When To Stop
An overly ambitious person will eventually hang themselves. The one I suspected of setting me up to get my teaching job could not settle...
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Nov 14, 20121 min read
Finally a Crack in the Cold Silence
The Counseling and Speech department sent a letter to my department with the testing results. I wondered what effect it would have. They...
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Oct 24, 20122 min read
My Sign Was I Was In A Corner
The sign was unusual, I had to take a test, in Statistics. My teacher, one of the players, taught a series of lessons, I was not...
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Oct 24, 20123 min read
I Was Normal and Intelligent and Handicapped, What Next
Well, I took the Personality test, the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, the best psychological test ever designed. My results...
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Oct 17, 20122 min read
The Character
I had learned early in life that to ask questions can turn against you unless you ask in all humility and are sensitive to the other...
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Oct 17, 20122 min read
Ask Questions, Too Many, and Ask Some More
I never did go to the YWCA where the women had originated. They came to my study class and I asked them what they knew. They had been...
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Oct 11, 20122 min read
I Was Given a Teaching Job, Unbelivable.
I always wondered why some people get all the good luck and others none. Well, I was given the good luck of a part time teaching...
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Oct 3, 20122 min read
I Was Accepted in the Ph.D Program, Now What?
The letter came from the other University. I half heartedly opened it. Not in a million years would I be accepted. Not I, not I who could...
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Sep 19, 20122 min read
Past Efforts Become Our Tools to Succeed
I never thought about my past efforts, which did not seem to lead to success, that they would lead to success in the future. But they do...
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Sep 19, 20121 min read
As We Move Up More Others Take Notice of Our Talents
If I had stayed at home no one would of ever noticed my unique talents, just my failures. People often judge us by our failure rather...
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Sep 12, 20121 min read
Past Efforts Begin to Pay Off
MY HANDICAP SAVES ME Because of my handicap, to compete, I had to learn things better then most. It may take a bit longer, and I may have...
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Aug 8, 20122 min read
It Forced Me On
I had been living in a small three room shack with my three sons. There was only one bed room too small for three beds so I constructed...
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Aug 8, 20122 min read
What a Reason to Get a Job
After six months probation on the job I was able to apply to get a better job working for the state welfare office as a receptionist. The...
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Aug 8, 20121 min read
A Break, A Fluke, It Wouldn't Last But It Was Worth A Try
I couldn't believe it and perhaps shouldn't have. The department was offering a fellowship to go to graduate school. I immediately jumped...
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Aug 8, 20122 min read
Patience, Gentleness, Stop and Think
I was in the office of the counselor that was to help me set up my graduate classes. He had just told me all my arrangements with the...
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Aug 8, 20122 min read
To Be A Hero Can Backfire
I watched people with pleasant personalities become cold hearted working with the system and not wanting to loose their jobs. I was put...
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Aug 1, 20122 min read
An Innovation to Pass the Graduate School Exam
To pass the test you get the book made to prepare you. So I did. There was a section that was just a list of vocabulary words you would...
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Jul 25, 20122 min read
Armed and Ready to Take on Graduate School? It is not so easy.
My husband had been my hero for nine years, since I meet him at 17 to 18. We loved each other dearly but circumstances beyond our control...
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Jul 18, 20121 min read
A Miracle of the Brain Is Step Six, the Easiest Step to Succeed
In desperation I looked at my lists, I had read them and still I was stumped as to what to do next. I had read and marked facts with...
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Jun 11, 20122 min read
I Did Not Know How But Step Two, Never Forget Your Dream
I could write papers, short ones not longer then one to two thousand words. I usually got an A or A+ for content and D, E, or F for...
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Jun 11, 20121 min read
Step Five Organization Helps a Lot but More to It
I made note books of the notes and put them into categories, any category that seemed to make sense. It did not really matter what the...
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Jun 11, 20122 min read
Step Four Use Your Down Time to Follow Your Passions
I had finished up my BA in psychology just a month or so earlier. I wanted to go on but I knew I was not ready for the test and that I...
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Jun 11, 20122 min read
Married With Children a Handicap Also but Step Three Always Look for Opportunity
I had married and my husband was working on his PhD at Ohio State University. I was about to have my third little boy. It was a full time...
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Jun 11, 20122 min read
New Memory Aids Step One
School and learning, like any task, is a skill that you learn. The more you practice the better you get. But with a handicap practice may...
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May 21, 20122 min read
Other Brother to the Rescue
The brother one year older then me was soon to save my college career. I had to take a class in research methods, it was way beyond me, I...
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