Category Archives: Life

Being Yourself

I was fortunate to attend Sacramento City College’s Psychology Club Career Panel recently. California Youth Crisis Line had set up a booth there to recruit new volunteers and raise awareness about what it is we do on the line. The speakers were a Marriage and Family Therapist, a Licensed Social Worker, and two professors of [...]

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Create a New Reality

When you feel unloved,
“doing the right thing”
might seem too difficult
You might start causing trouble
to get attention
not realizing your own motives
When you feel alone
You might stay isolated
Trapping all you think
is ugly inside
creating blocks to guard
against your will
When you’ve messed up
you might now know
where the pieces go.
You can’t put things back
the way they were
your old reality is [...]

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Thoughts

Today is the beginning of a beautiful day. For some reason I have writers block and can not spill out anything from this brain of mine. I am looking forward to working with my kids today and see what new thing I can learn. As an Ice breaker for today we are going to play [...]

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Commitment

It is hard to accomplish anything without being committed. If you are continually considering different options, thinking the grass is greener somewhere else, it can be really difficult to be present and achieve your goals.
I know this personally because it’s what I used to do. If something got hard,  I would start looking for alternatives. [...]

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High School;

In less than one month, my high school career will be over forever. Four years ago, graduating high school seemed so far away but now the time has come! While it is exciting to be able to move on to another chapter of life, it is bittersweet as well.
Thinking of graduating high school has made [...]

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