i’m lucky and very privileged to be among those folks right now that are receiving good quality mental health support. I’m paying for it (not covered by my insurance), and thank God I have the pension to be able to do that!
I speak with my Therapist weekly, and today was my 3rd session with her. I make myself notes throughout the week, and bombard her with questions and comments, as soon as our sessions begin. She told me today, what great work I’m doing, and that we accomplish more in one session than she sometimes sees in 3 or 4 sessions with other patients.
I GOT THE GOLD STAR I’M ALWAYS SEARCHING FOR!!!!
She specializes in Childhood Trauma and Abuse, and works with the science of neuroplasticity, and all she teaches me now, builds on what I’ve already learned from other medical professionals I’ve been researching: the power of the brain and it’s ability to heal itself from trauma, is within our control, by building new pathways for the brain .. .like rewiring it to create a better, more positive and HEALED mindspace to live within.
This is all ‘new’ science, and eons beyond what my first therapists all believed (back in the 70’s): that adverse childhood experiences had NO effect on the child. No f*kking wonder I keep going back over and over, trying to heal from my infant child wounds …. those therapists in the past didn’t have the knowledge or science to help me heal. It wasn’t heard of … or practiced! They did what THAT generation of science told them to do. Much has changed since then!!!
More proof than ever, that THIS is MY time….all the pieces are falling into place, for me to walk steadily forward, healing all the way. Ironic (I think intended) that our local Health Unit is running an 8-week series on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) beginning in a few weeks, and will be a perfect underpinning for the work I’m doing with my Therapist! I have her blessing to participate, and she thinks it’s a great tool for me to work through! God DOES have His eyes and hands on me. I truly believe that!
I wanted to get this written while I was still ‘in the excitement’ of the session today. I feel empowered, and ready to meet the public at the ‘Environmental Demonstration’ I’m participating in, later at Town Hall! Standing out in public – showing visible non-support of the proposed Asphalt Plant they’re trying to push through Council…. scared sh*tless and unwell, but doing what my heart tells me to do!
The Activist me is Alive and Well today!!!!
Blessings!!!
