Beliefs need to use all of our altruistic instincts for group survival. If our group is handicapped so are we. WWII was a very...

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...

Step two, is to control our fears and increase our love and cooperation with others, to build relationships, businesses, and families....

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...

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...

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...

Public schools have a real handicap that is severe in the crime neighborhoods. As I said before, the teachers can not mix with the...

Groups of people are made up different personalities and personality disorders. These personalities combine and create a group...

Schools go through about a ten year cycle. They are governed by government mandates and limits that slows down change and traditions that...

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,...

You learn many useful things when you are handicapped that is of value through life. You learn to keep going when you feel uncomfortable....

About the time you begin to feel comfortable with Child Protective Services (CPS), you are doing everything they want you to, they have...

What should we do when we are handicapped? We need to rethink everything. Our usual thoughts are the average thoughts that people think,...

When a Child Protective Service (CPS) worker takes your child because of suspected abuse the last thing you want to do is get defensive...

There is nothing so heart wrenching then to be caught up in the politics of Child Protective Services (CPS), when child abuse is...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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....

An overly ambitious person will eventually hang themselves. The one I suspected of setting me up to get my teaching job could not settle...

The Counseling and Speech department sent a letter to my department with the testing results. I wondered what effect it would have. They...

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...

Well, I took the Personality test, the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, the best psychological test ever designed. My results...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I couldn't believe it and perhaps shouldn't have. The department was offering a fellowship to go to graduate school. I immediately jumped...

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...

I watched people with pleasant personalities become cold hearted working with the system and not wanting to loose their jobs. I was put...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...