Using the Tools of the Trade

    Yesterday, I did a really dumb thing.  I took my contacts out to rest my eyes and could not find my saline solution.  Hoping that my daughter had left some of her solution behind, I ran to the upstairs bathroom.  There, I found a small bottle that looked a lot like my saline […]

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Step Two. Came to Believe

I used to facilitate an expressive writing class at our county jail.  One of our fun activities involved using something called a story starter.  A story starter is a way to give the writer a place to begin.  I would give each young lady a slip of paper with a sentence written on it and […]

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Hypnosis…Really?

“You are getting very sleepy…” A long chain holding a pendulum swings back and fourth.  Someone speaks in slow, monotone sentences, inducing a “coma-esque” state in the person (subject) that sits watching and listening.  The subject is unaware of the present moment, but can go back in time and recover memories that were either stuffed , were […]

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