October 2, 2008 – 7:02 pm
I’ve started doing this rather strange type of therapy which is supposed to help me feel less depressed. It’s called EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique). What you do is sit across from the therapist who instructs you to touch different areas on your body and repeat “even though I feel a sense of [...]
September 25, 2008 – 4:20 pm
I just got back from my daughter’s therapist where I was supposed to have a visit with her. For those of you who have been out of my blogging loop, I haven’t seen my 10 year old adopted daughter since before the summer, except for running into her in the small town we live in. [...]
September 24, 2008 – 12:05 pm
I saw Alec Baldwin on TV today talking about parental alienation. I’m so glad this issue is getting publicized. Baldwin talks about how the Family Court System is totally corrupt, they don’t enforce visitation orders, they don’t recognize parental alienation as a problem.
I know little about how the court system deals with this [...]
September 23, 2008 – 9:50 am
I wrote about my cat Sammy a while ago on one of my journalists forums. He had left home because of my dog, Shadow, and I was upset about it. I took the advice of people who wrote there and whenever I saw him made a fuss over him and fed him something special. [...]
September 22, 2008 – 6:01 pm
I went to a new shrink today who is going to be working with me on the trauma I suffered due to my divorce. We came up with different areas of trauma that I need to clear: the guilt about my daughter; the desertion by my ex; jealousy/envy of the affair partner he married; [...]
September 20, 2008 – 11:40 pm
My husband’s wife, who he cheated with and left me for, is incredibly hateful to me which is very damaging to my daughter. As I’ve mentioned before, my daughter lives with them because she’s emotionally disturbed, very hard to handle, and she doesn’t listen to me. The only person she listens to is her stepmother, [...]
September 19, 2008 – 12:52 pm
I just got a book in the mail from a friend, “Ditching Mr. Wrong, How to End a Bad Relationship and Find Mr. Right” by Nicolas Aretakis that brings up some interesting questions about what kind of compromises you should make when you marry.
I know a lot of women who seem to want it all, [...]
September 17, 2008 – 9:33 pm
I ran into Maria today, a divorcee who I’d interviewed for my book. She’s in her sixties, an old hippie type, but great looking. Slim, shoulder length curly gray/brown hair, jeans and a chic shirt, you’d never guess she was over 60. She looks more like 45. She was [...]
September 15, 2008 – 9:23 pm
How long does it take to move on? Abigail Trafford, author of Crazy Time, says 1 year for every 5 years of marriage. What’s your experience?
I went to yet another new shrink today (hey she’s covered by Medicare so why not) and felt kind of embarrassed when she asked me how long ago [...]
September 14, 2008 – 8:29 pm
Sometimes I wonder what it is about me that makes people feel they can treat me disrespectfully. I think I don’t demand the kind of respect other people do. I went to my book club tonight and Judy, who acts as if she runs the group although there is no official leader, really gave me [...]