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    What Are You Grateful For Today?

    dry wood and a warm fire. cold and clear here but we are good to go, feet up with warm toes
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    I get so angry

    totally get it. some describe inner anger levels as a cup, near spill over and precariously balanced. Mine is more like a balloon, pretty well contained and stable but not accepting any more and any escape is in the form of a total release. You hear the pop? Too late, coming your way. At least...
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    Acceptance of trauma ?

    brother, you are not alone thinking 2000 miles is easier than 20. Haven't even loaded my truck but thought about it plenty for quite awhile. Hell of a personal admission to make in a thread that has also seen me rail against radical acceptance. Still a work in progress
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    Acceptance of trauma ?

    wisdom is a wet blanket thrown on the fire to change for changes sake. Something has to change in an interpersonal relationship? I could change the continent i stand on and thus end the relationship. Unwise? yeah. maybe so. or jyst move? maybe. confront, adjust, adapt? if it has a chance of...
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    What’s your favorite?

    Red House by Jimi Hendrix, let it blast. It takes a different set of skills to play a guitar and amp combo that is capable of suffering death feedback and getting way out of control really quickly, this is my favorite to play the way it was recorded- ragged edge! favorite winter day activity?
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    What does Closure mean?

    the word implies a mechanical solid binary state of being closed and no longer open which rarely exists in affairs of heart or mind, in all things human really. Doctor's talk of remission not closure, we are basically open from birth to death. close as it gets for me is maybe “settled”. Maybe if...
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    Acceptance of trauma ?

    I like the AA serenity prayer (I found it applies to us non alcoholics in recovery from substance abuse too). I think it gets a few steps into the argument against radical acceptance, at least groundwork for further steps in the logic sequence: serenity to accept the things i cannot change -...
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