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    Effective pain management tool

    Wonderful! I hope it works well. I did get a migraine this week and I tried the technique and it didn't work--so I think it may be a strategy of...
    Post by: swandive, Mar 31, 2014 in forum: Success Stories Subforum
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    Effective pain management tool

    Absolutely!! If this can help anyone else I would be ecstatic. As always, thanks for the support Herbie!
    Post by: swandive, Mar 30, 2014 in forum: Success Stories Subforum
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    Effective pain management tool

    Day 34 of the program reintroduces this idea: "In most cases, at least the purpose of the pain is to preoccupy or distract you from painful...
    Thread by: swandive, Mar 26, 2014, 4 replies, in forum: Success Stories Subforum
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    Day 25 Closeted inner child

    I completely understand where you're coming from. So many passions of mine have been destroyed with the drive for external validation. So how the...
    Post by: swandive, Mar 11, 2014 in forum: Structured Educational Program
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    Day 6 I was cheated on: Blame vs. Responsibility

    I think it would make sense if those people are attracted to you, especially if the sensitivities that make you vulnerable to TMS may be...
    Post by: swandive, Mar 6, 2014 in forum: Structured Educational Program
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    Day 25 Closeted inner child

    Ha! I doubt it! But then again I would have smacked someone upside the face if they had told me my chronic pain could mostly disappear through...
    Post by: swandive, Mar 6, 2014 in forum: Structured Educational Program
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    Day 25 Closeted inner child

    That is definitely something I am trying to do. I suppose it makes sense that we constantly move to an external perspective when so often our...
    Post by: swandive, Mar 6, 2014 in forum: Structured Educational Program
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    Day 6 I was cheated on: Blame vs. Responsibility

    Hi 331, I had a wise therapist once tell me that the only thing we can be accountable for is our contract with ourselves. In this situation, you...
    Post by: swandive, Mar 5, 2014 in forum: Structured Educational Program
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    Day 8 Day 8 of the Program, Day 40 of the Calendar

    Hi John, I have the same problem and will probably take 80-100 days to get through the 42 day program. The worst part of it is the...
    Post by: swandive, Mar 5, 2014 in forum: Structured Educational Program
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    Day 25 Closeted inner child

    Thanks for both your comments! Just today I thought about the psychological concept of "self-objectification," where women are often more sexually...
    Post by: swandive, Mar 5, 2014 in forum: Structured Educational Program
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    Day 25 Closeted inner child

    I'm doing actually pretty well at Day "25" (in quotes due to time proceeding more consistently than my program compliance). My elbows have almost...
    Thread by: swandive, Feb 23, 2014, 11 replies, in forum: Structured Educational Program
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    Day 8 Any advice on reacting to pain/anxiety?

    Thank-you Dahlia. I have actually used Kabat-Zinn's CD (I purchased his depression book a few years ago, and I find mindfulness a good strategy...
    Post by: swandive, Feb 1, 2014 in forum: Structured Educational Program
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    Day 8 Any advice on reacting to pain/anxiety?

    Thank-you Stella! I did find that envisioning hugging and comforting the toddler version of me w/ a bowlcut in 80's gender-neutral colored...
    Post by: swandive, Jan 22, 2014 in forum: Structured Educational Program