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Bishop's Report to Diocesan Council – February 18, 2018
(1) Taylor Vaughn has announced that she is leaving Vermont for the warmer climes of Virginia, and hence her position as P/T Administrative Assistant in the Diocesan Office, effective February 23rd. We will miss her and wish her well.
(2) The following congregations are in some phase of transition (mostly with respect to calling new clergy leadership): St. Thomas & Grace, Brandon, Supply Clergy; St. Andrew's, Colchester, Supply Clergy, while seeking Interim; St. Luke's, Fair Haven, Forming Local ministry Support Team in Formation, the Rev. Richard Brewer, Regular Supply; Christ Church, Island Pond: Supply Clergy; St. Peter's, Lyndonville: Supply Clergy; Saint Mark's, Newport: The Rev. Jane Butterfield, Interim; Gethsemane, Proctorsville: Supply Clergy; Saint John's, Randolph: The Rev. Angela Emerson, Interim; Saint Luke's, St. Albans: Supply Clergy; Saint Andrew's, St. Johnsbury: Supply Clergy; St. Mark's, Springfield: Supply Clergy; Calvary, Underhill: Supply Clergy; St. Paul's Windsor, Supply Clergy; St. Mary's, Wilmington: The Rev. Nicholas Porter, Interim; Saint James, Woodstock: the Rev. Lisa Ransom, Interim
(3) We are in the final stages of interviews with Candidates for the position of Financial Administrator. Julie's last day in the office is February 23rd. She will be greatly missed!
(4) The Rock Point Partnership Campaign continues its progress towards our $1.7 million-dollar goal. At last count, all but 8 congregations have made a financial commitment to the effort. We are less than $25,000 away from meeting our goal. We have the potential of going over the top any day now!
(5) We received a $6,000 Grant from The Episcopal Church as part of the Evangelism Grants program. This was the largest grant made to a Domestic US Diocese and will help fund our participation in the Evangelism Matters Conference and the emerging ministry of the Green Mountain Witness effort.
(6) We are going to move the date of the 2018 Convention to October 26-27, because of venue challenges in the Burlington area on November 2-3. The Hilton Hotel in Burlington will be the venue for Convention. Fortunately, our special guest, the Rev. Stephanie Spellers, Canon to the Presiding Bishop for Evangelism, Reconciliation and Creation, can adjust to this new date.
(7) I participated in several events featuring Dr. John Armstrong, to mark the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity January 25-29), sponsored by Vermont Ecumenical Council Network of Christian Cooperation. Thanks to Council member Fred Moser for organizing most of this.
(8) I participated in the Annual Province One Chancellors and Bishops Conference in Newport Rhode Island, January 25-27. Out Chancellor, Tom Little is the Senior Chancellor in the Province and the Convener of this gathering.
(9) On February 3rd, I presided at the wonderful Celebration of the Life and Ministry of Elaine Little, mother of our Chancellor, Tom Little, who died on January 28th. The liturgy was held at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul.
(10) I attended the Annual Meeting of the Board of Directors of Cristosal, in El Salvador from February 8-12. Cristosal is a leading Human Rights Organization in El Salvador, with strong ties to the Episcopal Church. Cristosal is incorporated in the State of Vermont, and the Bishop of Vermont serves as an ex officio member of the Board, per the incorporation papers and the bylaws. You can learn more about Cristosal here: http://www.cristosal.org
(11) I attended the Funeral Mass for Tony Pomerleau, a well-known, generous and ecumenically minded person in Vermont, who died recently at the age of 100! The Roman Catholic liturgy was held at St. Michael's College in Colchester.
(12) On Friday (2/16) I will preside at the Celebration of the life and ministry of the Rev. Beverly St. Germain, a Deacon of our Diocese who died on February 5th. The liturgy will be held at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul.
(13) The Standing Committee continues to oversee the process related to Episcopal Transition in the Diocese of Vermont. Next up will be the announcement of the Chair and membership of the Bishop's Discernment and Nominating Committee. Information continues to be offered on the website and in each edition of The Mountain.
(14) I presided at Ash Wednesday liturgies at the Cathedral, where we had a welcome, but unexpected visit from a local TV reporter (Jennifer from Channel 5 WPTZ) who interviewed the Dean and me and videoed the entire 12:15 liturgy. Her report aired on Wednesday night and is posted on our Twitter and Facebook sites. Here is the link: http://www.mynbc5.com/article/ash-wednesday-and-valentine-s-day-fall-on-same-day/18153840
(15) My Visitations since our last Council meeting included weekday visitations with Christ Church, Island Pond, on January 24th, Saint Paul's, Burlington on January 31st, and a Sunday Visit with Saint Paul's, Windsor on February 4th. In addition, I paid a special visit to Saint Dunstan's, Waitsfield on January 21st to bless their new Worship Space at the Valley Arts Art Gallery in Village Square Shopping Center, Waitsfield, VT.
(16) Ann and I will enjoy a week's vacation (February 22- March 1st). Yes, it is in a very warm place!


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Nevada top prosecutor vows to take on voter intimidation
CARSON CITY — Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford said Thursday he is worried about the possibility of voter intimidation after President Donald Trump implored supporters to "watch very carefully" at the polls. State prosecutors plan strict enforcement, Ford said in an interview.
Trump made the comments during the first presidential debate this week with Democratic candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden.
Ford said he believes Trump "wasn't talking about poll watching. He was talking about voter intimidation."
"Believe me when I say it: You do it, and you will be prosecuted," Ford tweeted on Tuesday.
Ford, a Democrat, told The Associated Press that he viewed Trump's comments as threatening because Trump has also declined to denounce white supremacists or commit to a peaceful transfer of power.
He called Trump's poll watching comments a "dog whistle" that could lure Trump's supporters to voting locations and disregard Nevada's poll watching laws.
"I do not appreciate, frankly, a rehashing of what we saw during the Civil Rights era where folks were intimidated from exercising their constitutional right to vote," Ford said.
Nevada law allows people to monitor polling places as long as they don't talk to or interact with voters. It's been a felony since 1960 to intimidate, threaten or impede people from exercising their voting rights.
Trump's poll watching comment have centered on swing states like Nevada and Pennsylvania and Trump during the debate blasted Philadelphia officials for not allowing uncertified poll watchers to enter satellite election offices.
Pennsylvania law allows certified poll watchers to observe activity at voting precincts, but no poll watchers have yet been certified for the Trump campaign, the Republican Party, or other Republican campaigns, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
Trump has encouraged poll watching in Nevada since a Sept. 12 rally, where he accused Democrats of attempting to rig the election.
"I hope you're all going to be poll watchers. I hope you are. Because with you people watching the polls, it's going to be pretty hard to cheat. I'll tell you. I wouldn't want to be a cheater," he told supporters in the rural northern city of Minden.
Ford's office said it had not prosecuted anyone for voter intimidation since he took office in 2019.
State prosecutors relies on cooperation from state election officials to enforce election laws. In late July, Republican Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske told state lawmakers that election officials lack investigative capacity and rely primarily on people at polling places to report alleged fraud and other violations.
Ford's office said most reports are voter registration infractions, including thrown away voter registrations or identity theft.
Former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt, a Republican, said he couldn't recall prosecuting voter intimidation during his 2014-18 tenure. Laxalt in an emailed statement called Ford's comments equating poll-watching with voter intimidation "bizarre."
He said it was unclear why "Ford is attempting to intimidate this time honored legal and traditional avenue to help give the public more confidence in our elections at a time when election confidence is so low."
Sam Metz is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.

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Sara presented a poster on her project investigating individual differences in decision making and allocation of attention at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society in Montreal, Canada.
FRP data collection has begun!!!
Thanks to our visiting graduate student, Martín, we have officially set up our co-registration station and are off and running collecting fixation-related potentials!
2019 PsychExpo
Congratulations to Anna Marie for winning the Best Poster Award at the USF Psychology Department's Annual Research Exposition in 2019. Her poster was on her honors thesis, and was titled "Musicians experience less working memory interference than non-musicians by utilizing syntactic structure".
Alex also presented a poster on his honors thesis studying top-down versus bottom-up processing, and Dimitri presented a poster on oral reading.
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5th Annual Florida Psycholinguistics Conference in Miami
The EMaC Lab attended and presented at the 5th Annual Florida Psycholinguistics Meeting at the University of Miami. Psycholinguists and scholars from related fields around the state came together to share research and gain new perspectives on various topics and research techniques. Many of our undergraduates and our graduate students, Sara and Martin, presented fabulous posters at the conference.
Some logistical difficulties with our AirBnB led to us spending some lab bonding time at a local 24-hour laundromat… see below
Cassie presented about the word superiority effect (WSE).
Dimitri presented on oral and silent reading.
Alex presented on his honors thesis investigated top-down versus bottom-up processing while reading.
Our visiting graduate student, Martin, presented ERP data on individual difference in the perceptual and visual attention span during reading.
Jamie Newland presents at the Preeminent Undergraduate Research Experience at USF
Early this month, several undergraduate research assistants from EMaC Lab presented at the Spring 2019 PURE hosted by the Office of Undergraduate Research at USF. Jamie presented preliminary results from her undergraduate honors thesis titled "Semantic Priming: Individual Differences in Automaticity". Replicating earlier semantic priming studies and investigating the effects of individuals' reading/language abilities. She found that readers with better comprehension (as assessed using the PIAT-R) showed less dual-task interference during a semantic categorization task, suggesting they identify the meanings of words more automatically.
EMaC Lab at CUNY 2019: The 32nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing
Emily and Sara presented research posters at CUNY this year at University of Colorado Boulder. Find their posters and others from the session online at https://osf.io/view/CUNY2019/
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Emily's poster entitled "Enhanced peripheral lexical processing in deaf individuals: perceptually or linguistically driven?" is a collaboration with Dr. Amy Lieberman of Boston University. She presented preliminary results from three experiments of deaf signers' peripheral processing abilities, demonstrating a sign superiority effect, whereby deaf signers are able to utilize lexical knowledge to facilitate processing of information under difficult tasks demands (i.e. when information is briefly presented at an extreme eccentricity in the periphery).
Jamie Newland starting Grad School
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Anna Marie Fennell Awarded Psi Chi Undergraduate Research Grant
Congratulations to Anna Marie on receiving the Psi Chi Undergraduate Research Grant for the 2019 Spring Semester to fund her honors thesis! Her project investigates whether the cognitive mechanisms shared between music and language processing rely on working memory resources necessary for syntactic processing. She will use a dual-task approach in which people read syntactically complex sentences while holding onto items in memory (words, musical phrases, or visual layouts of dots) and will compare performance between musicians and non-musicians.
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Emily presented her poster entitled "Peripheral Attention and American Sign Language" at the WORLD conference in Spain last week. The conference focused on language and deafness and facilitated an open and honest discussion by researchers and clinicians of different perspectives. It was exciting to hear from panelists as they discussed the future of the field.


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The global head of Rupert Murdoch's empire, Robert Thomson, will appear before the media diversity inquiry next week to answer questions about the dominance of News Corp in Australia's media landscape.
The invitation to front the Senate was accepted by the New York-based Thomson after the co-chairman of News Corp, Lachlan Murdoch, turned down a request to appear last month.
Thomson is expected to be asked about his private meeting with Scott Morrison in New York, also attended by Australia's ambassador to the US, Arthur Sinodinos, and the consul general in New York, Nick Greiner, and about the strategy behind Mission Zero, a net-zero-emissions push launched by the company's outlets this week.
The Senate committee chair, Sarah Hanson-Young, said the inquiry had heard extensive evidence about how News Corp's media dominance in Australia made it a powerful political player.
"News Corp's attack on those advocating for any climate action over the past decade have played a large role in the lack of climate action we have seen in Australia," Hanson-Young told Guardian Australia.
"Now, after years of climate denial, News Corp has launched a campaign calling for climate action. This sudden change has come just weeks after Mr Thomson met with PM Scott Morrison in New York, a meeting that seemed to confirm the cosy relationship between Australia's largest media corporation and our prime minister.
"The committee will have serious questions for Mr Thomson about the organisation's culture and business model that News Corp employs both in Australia and around the world, given evidence we have heard about the treatment of women, the use of their platforms for character assassination of individuals and the Covid disinformation shared on Sky News that resulted in the broadcaster being banned from YouTube."
Herald Sun columnist and Sky News presenter Andrew Bolt has hit out at his own company by declaring the Australian editorial campaign to speed up climate action is "rubbish" and the "global warming propaganda" provides political cover for Morrison.
On Monday, all its papers except the Australian launched the major editorial project to "inform Australians about the key environmental and climate issues of our time" in support of net zero emissions by 2050.
"I know I've lost the argument," Bolt said on his Sky News program. "My whole company's against me. I know that against these huge players, all the big political parties, my own employer, all the media and big media outlets, what am I? Just someone on the sidelines. Someone just howling on the sidelines, but telling you the truth."
A global-warming sceptic, Bolt says he has been assured by his editors he is free to speak his mind.
Murdoch had been invited to appear before a reconvened Senate inquiry into YouTube's temporary ban on Sky News Australia for uploading videos in breach of the platform's Covid misinformation policy.
It is understood Murdoch, who is also executive chairman and CEO of Fox Corporation, told the Senate he had not been in an executive position at the Australian arm of the media company for some 10 years and it would not be appropriate for him to appear as a witness, and suggested Thomson.
The Australian Press Council, which has been the subject of some negative evidence at the hearings, has also been invited to appear at what will be the inquiry's final public hearings.
Thomson is rarely seen talking about the Australian side of the business, although he does present the financial results, as the company is based in the US.
Sky News Australia's chief executive, Paul Whittaker, vigorously defended Sky's right to present a range of views on treatments such as ivermectin at an appearance before the committee last month, which earlier heard from the company's Australasian chief, Michael Miller.
Murdoch, who splits his time between Los Angeles, New York and Sydney, returned to LA last month to reopen Fox News offices and to celebrate 25 years of Fox News.


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Northeast Etowah Senior Citizens
The Northeast Etowah Senior Citizens held their monthly meeting Dec. 12 at the Northeast Etowah Community Center. President Shirley Boyd presided over the meeting.
Nell Gober's group decorated this month. They used a festive Christmas theme. The food table had a centerpiece of three glass hurricane globes filled with red ornaments and fresh greenery sitting on gold lamé cloth. They used an apple topiary with a pineapple on top on the dessert table. The dining tables had glass hurricane globes filled with red ornaments and greenery.
Mary Sue Grissom gave an update on our next fundraiser, the soup and chili at our Feb. 16 meeting.
Kenny Tidmore, our newly elected commissioner for this district, came by and spoke to us briefly. He stayed for lunch, which gave us a chance to get to know him better.
Wanda Fox and the Starlighters entertained us with Christmas music.
Personal concerns were addressed; several members were out due to illness.
The next meeting will be Jan. 16.
— Doris Cash
Southside Senior Citizens Club
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone from the Southside Senior Citizens Club.
We enjoyed our annual catered luncheon Dec. 19 at the Southside Community Center. Our community center was decorated by Cheryl Kennedy and Marcelle Bearden. We were entertained by singer Alan Hudson.
Bingo winners this month were Ken Bauman, Geoffry Beason, Dianne Chalupnik Garrard, Marcelle Bearden, Ruth Farmer and Lamar Pruitt. Door prize winner was Dianne Charlupnik.
New officers for 2013 are president, Rose Weathington; first vice president, Lee Daniel; second vice-president, Johnny Farmer; secretary, Charlotte Taylor; assistant secretary, Sue Garrard; treasurer, Carolyn Dobbs; chaplain, Marilyn Carter; and parliamentarian, Ralph Taylor. They will be installed at the first meeting of the new year.
We enjoyed an outing at Nocculula Falls and saw all the Christmas lights and ate at Jack's in Southside, which was paid for by the club.
We enjoyed the singing of Christmas songs by Tim Reid, assistant branch manager of Metro Bank.
Our December birthdays were Patricia Bauman, Wynell Beason, Robbie Douglas and Edith Fortenbery. Our December anniversary couple was Charles and Sue Garrard.
We continue to pray for our country and our troops.
— Charlotte Taylor
El Señor Club
Celebrating birthdays for October were Connie Wapplehorst, Monya Vanek, Shirley Steapleton, Mary Heaton and Edward Lacey.
On our sick list were R.V. Amos, Mary Owens, Audrey Irwin, Betty Lewis, Eliza Colley, Francis Brooks, Woods family and Nadine Nelson.
Our guest speaker was John Crane, Gadsden police chief. A question-and-answer session was held, with lots of useful information given.
We celebrated Halloween with games, and prize winners were Betty Crowe with best costume; treasure hunt winners were Dick Wapplehorst and Shirley Steapleton; candy contest winners were Patsy Lee and Gerrie Gooden; donut contest winner was Wanda Fox. A good time was had by all.
Cake for October was baked by Simone Cline and won by Gerrie Gooden. Shirley Steapleton was the 50/50 winner.
In November, we saluted our veterans in observance of Veterans Day.
Our prayer list included our friends and neighbors on the East Coast due to the damage of Hurricane Sandy and our servicemen, policeman and firemen.
Cake for November was baked by Jane Flanagan an won by Wanda Fox. Our 50/50 winner was R.V. Amos.
Birthdays celebrated for the month was Audrey Irwin, Dick Wapplehorst, Barbara Mote, Peggy Sharpton, Jackie Smith, James Packer. John and Monya Vanek celebrated their 53rd wedding anniversary.
December was election of officers for 2013. They are President Shirley Dupont, first Vice President Johnn Farmer, second Vice President Richard Wapplehorst, Secretary Eileen Gray, Assistant Secretary Sharon Wapplehorst, Treasurer Barbara Mote, Parliamentarian Ruth Farmer, members at large Mary Collins, Delores Cerecki and Wayne Lee.
We had many visitors who came and joined us for our Christmas luncheon, which was catered by Morgan House.
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I haven't written on here all week because lately this blog has been sad. And the truth is, I'm still sad and I feel like anything I write will be sad.
But then last night, someone left me a nice comment a couple of entries down and I went to his blog and found an entry about me. How sweet is that? Thank you Daniel! Happy birthday and I like your stuff too! He must have stumbled across the archives cuz lord knows the main page has been a bummer. So just for him, I'll try to kick this entry off with some happy stuff:
Thursday KEVIN appeared out of nowhere and it was an instant pick-me-up. He's been in South Korea for a year (again) and I have missed that guy terribly. He's about to start a whole new life once again and I couldn't be happier for him. We hung out, ate gyros, and went on a covert mission to cheer up someone else. That was a good day.
Tuesday was also cool; I went over to Rachel's for the first time in forever and hung out with her adorable daughter and her giant spazzy dogs. I used to go over to Rachel's every day after school and it's still such a comfortable familiar feeling, even with the new three year-old riding her big wheel over my toes.
I canceled my date with that paramedic… I just don't feel like getting disappointed right now. But I reconnected with another old friend who happens to be a paramedic, and he also happens to have a puppy (!!!!). I'm looking forward to hanging out with him; it's been like 10 years since we talked last but I remember him making me laugh a lot.
Tonight The Takedown is headlining at The Pageant!!! I am so proud of those boys and I'm looking forward to a great show. Ty and his wife are in town and it will be great to hang out with them and that whole group of friends.
My favorite author ever Lynda Barry is coming to town in a couple of days and I'm going to go see her. I've met her before (we dished about origami and monkeys) but it's still incredibly exciting.
Finally, I slept 12 hours last night. It was awesome.
So here's the rest of it and the worst of it – I talked to him on Sunday and I'm not mad at him anymore. As I've said before, I use anger to balance out sadness. But now I'm just plain sad, and that just plain sucks because there's nothing I can do except ride this out and miss him and be all "boo hoo hoo…"
He wouldn't give me a real reason. And maybe there really isn't one, but that's what happened to me the last time around and that's the part that hurts the most. When people change the way they feel about you and you don't know why, it makes you go looking for a reason and that makes you doubt every single tiny little thing about yourself.
So… that's where I'm at right now. I'm trying to distract myself with great friends and fun stuff, and I'm trying to change the things that I don't like about me, since I can't figure out what he didn't like about me. But I'm not going to lie; I'm hurting a lot and I don't know how to make that feeling go away. My grandma always says "Fake it til you make it," but I'm still in that "sit in your PJ's and watch Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and sigh a lot" phase. Ugh. Kill me.


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How Strength Training Helped C-PTSD Recovery
Trauma happens to us in a variety of forms. Each of our trauma experiences are unique managing to change our brain and body. Two people who experience the same traumatic event will not have the same triggers, issues, or take away. Some trauma is blunt and obvious, some small and sits quietly in the background. Each type still manages to shape and change us.
I knew when I was a teenager that my life was not normal. Visiting my friends and family members homes had shown me this. I knew terrible things had happened to me, and that one day I would have to face and analyze how they impacted my life. I was around sixteen when I came to this conclusion and then fell madly in love with "the boy next door". The task of analyzing my past was pushed aside. I decided to keep moving forward until I couldn't.
Discovery of Mental Health Issues
I found myself at twenty-six years old in the lobby of a therapist's office that I had found on Psychology Today. She was specialized in abuse, drug addiction, and childhood issues. She was trained in a trauma treatment technique I had researched and been interested in called EMDR. Since I suffered from child abuse, my abuser was a drug addict, along with other family members I loved, it seemed like it was a good fit. My life at the time was pretty great other than suffering from extreme anxiety and depression. I was successful in my career and had a job that I loved with an immense passion. I had people who cared deeply about me and always encouraged my growth and success. I just wasn't whole.
When I wasn't busy with work I was miserable. I did nothing but sleep, eat, and watch TV. I had no energy to care for myself outside of the requirements of working with clients or family events. I weighed in on the scale at my heaviest at 275lbs on a five-foot-five-inch frame. I put on a great exhausting show to cover up how terrible I actually felt. When people commented on how much they enjoyed my humor, joyful company, and laughter, I dismissed it because it wasn't real. That wasn't the real me at that time and place.
Like Meredith Grey and Cristina Yang say from the hit show Grey's Anatomy, I was all dark and twisty inside. Sometimes I let it show to my small inner circle. I was always careful to not let others in on the information. This would often create the fear of possibly having to reveal more of what I had let happen to me. Fear crippled me. Sharing information on my past would mean pain would bubble to the surface that I would have to fight away with energy I didn't have.
Fresh out of high school I had hoped to be a nurse and work towards becoming a midwife. Poor course counseling derailed the program, so I stuck with my side gig and love of photography. I started working in studios right out of high school when I was 18, was a studio manager of a popular national chain by 19, and started my own photography business on the side. In building my business I shot everything from weddings, families, and babies, and then I found where I most excelled. I ventured into birth work and became a birth photographer and doula in 2013.
Birth work changed me. There were so many happy moments I have been a part of. The vast majority of the time in my birth work, I left my clients homes or hospitals high as a kite. But there are dark days in birth. I have sat with families who have experienced great losses. I have sat with new parents who have experienced trauma from their deliveries. I sat with parents who found themselves in a reality they didn't expect. As I gave recommendations and encouraged my clients to get help with the obstacles they revealed to me, I realized I wasn't living the advice I was giving. I wasn't giving myself the care I needed.
Therapy went well for about a month. I was diagnosed with complex PTSD, anxiety, and depression. I had a few breakthroughs quickly with my therapist, but things started to fizzle out just as quickly. I tried an SSRI medication for a few months, but it didn't work for me. Like with many things I had done in life I was going to have to carve out my own way. I ventured to the comfort of my favorite place by pressing my nose in books. My favorites of many in this journey I read were: The Body Keeps the Score by Dr. Bessel Van Der Kolk, The Deepest Well by Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, and Childhood Disrupted by Donna Jackson Nakazawa. These books taught me a lot. While EMDR therapy works well for many people suffering from PTSD, I had come to learn from Dr. Van Der Kolk that it had a very low rate of effectiveness in treatment for those who have trauma that stemmed from child abuse.
Learning My Triggers
There are two particular breakthroughs that largely got me where I am today. The first I was sitting in the dentist's office after having not been in eight years. After my cleaning and X-Ray's, I was placed in a tiny back room and four sheets of paper slid in front of me with a detailed care plan. All I saw was a price tag of $3,000 in dental work staring back at me. My brain would not let me focus on the important information I was getting from the care coordinator talking to me, or allowing me to develop the questions I needed to ask. I was frozen. It was like I blacked out for the majority of the consultation. I don't really remember leaving. I got in my car and sobbed the entire way home. Negative thoughts swirled in my mind.
After getting a day to process I found I had been hit by a trigger. I had the realization that this was exactly what I had been reading about. A few more days lead me to piece together what events caused the reaction of blanking out, and intense emotional suffering. It came from parental neglect in my healthcare I had growing up. Anytime I was really sick, had an expensive hospital bill, or needed expensive dental work, I heard often how much it was a nuisance and burden to deal with. How much of an inconvenience I was causing financially. These voices had crept into the back of my psyche from repetition and told me I wasn't worth care and attention. I knew this was a lie. If I was going to live a healthier and happier life I was going to have to fix the messages stuck inside me.
After putting the pieces together, I had remembered that this wasn't the first time I have frozen up and experienced a myriad of powerful emotional states against my will. Different situations and causes, but because of reading the books I had, this dental visit was the first time I could recognize what was happening to me, piece together my emotions from it afterward, and then place where it came from. This event made me think about other incidents and one stood out the most. One in particular that always puzzled me.
I busted out into a tickle "fight" that lead to chasing and more aggressive behavior with my boyfriend. I wound up on the bed with having a knee on each side of my torso sitting on top of me with my arms pinned down. When I realized I couldn't get out of this situation, mass panic broke out and I started hyperventilating, yelled stop, ran into the bathroom. I locked the door behind me. As I sat on the cold floor in the dark room frozen unable to speak with tears streaming down my face. His fingers appeared from the bottom of the door and I rested my hand on his. We both sat there quietly not knowing what happened or what to do. At the time PTSD was something I only associated with veterans returning from war.
I had often thought back on this situation confused because my boyfriend had never hurt me or had given me a reason to not trust him. This intense reaction to things where I was not really in danger had happened before, but not to this extent. It had been smaller and more subtle like when a shirt collar was too tight, or when a roller coaster ride was over and I was still pinned in my seat, or when I got shoved into a fake coffin at a Halloween party and forced to stay in it longer then I wanted. I had finally put it together. This was my body over reacting to multiple instances it had held on to from past childhood abuse.
These small events were throwing my brain and body back into a familiar time in my past where I had to fight or flight to survive. It felt very embarrassing not putting the pieces together until I had made it all the way to twenty-six. Eight years had passed since I left my life with the parent who regularly abused me, yet its ramifications were still following me around. That wasn't my life anymore. I wasn't in danger. It was time to figure out how to make myself feel safe and convince my brain I am.
Working Towards Recovery
Figuring out my triggers was the first step of my recovery. There were a lot. I'll save time and say feeling a lack of ownership of my body is my main trigger. Abuse can make victims ashamed of themselves for allowing it to happen. I often felt weak for not speaking up or stopping the behavior. I often felt my body got heavier in weight as a way to ensure my future safety.
In my readings on trauma recovery, there were many suggestions on the path to healing. Mindfulness meditation, healthy diet, proper sleep, and finding something to connect with my body (essentially an exercise) were regularly mentioned as helpful in my research. I took some time to figure out the first few, but the hardest was finding an exercise I liked and could stick with. Most of my research recommended yoga and tai chi, but after trying it, it just didn't appeal to me.
I had tried CrossFit when I was 19 for a few months, and while I enjoyed some of it, I found that it was really tough to recover from, I was often injured, and it was hard keeping up with the multitude of variety the workouts consisted of. I did enjoy the part where I worked with the barbell though. My partner and I joined a gym in 2016 with hopes to find a program they offered to get us in general shape, but that didn't work out. We stumbled through fitness magazines, podcasts, and YouTube videos to find something that made sense. We finally came across the highly recommended and well-reviewed book Starting Strength Basic Barbell Training by Mark Rippetoe. We both started the program in early November 2017. I had some hiccups in illness, got frustrated and "quit" at one point, but finally came back around to it very seriously May 2018. In July 2018 after oral surgery I got more serious about it, and got a coach as I was coming to the end of my novice phase.
Introducing Training
Mind-body connection in the form of exercise was the top repeated recommendation in my research on recovering from PTSD. I finally found something I enjoyed and felt I could stick with. However, this was far from simply exercise. I was training. I could measure my progress, set goals, and there was a coach to help with my individual issues. It gave me something to work towards and put the other important PTSD recovery tools into a priority and function. If I am not getting adequate rest, nutrition, and being mindful during lifts, progress doesn't go as well.
Before training, failure was something I often found unacceptable. This made my life rather boring. I would only gravitate to new things I thought I would be successful in, or that I thought would have a favorable outcome. It was really hard for me to fail during my training. Doing movements wrong, dropping the bar because things were too heavy, and getting back under the bar, even so, all contributed to learning how to be comfortable with the uncomfortable. This has been pivotal to PTSD recovery, as it has helped me be able to sit uncomfortably with my triggers when they arise and work with them, instead of stuffing them away.
The funny thing is, I probably would have told you that I was comfortable with failure before I started training hard. I would have said that I was fine with being uncomfortable. I found that what I really did was set myself up to not to fail or be uncomfortable. I can clearly recall in my training one particular time where I was trying to squat and I just could not get the movement right. I wasn't getting to depth, my knees were doing crazy things, and remember thinking how everyone was probably looking at me in pity. I imagined the other gym goers saying to themselves, "poor girl, can't even squat 80lbs correctly." I gave up, went to the treadmill (which is something I detest most, but it's easy to do, right?) and pitied myself. But back to the barbell I eventually went.
Learning to fail and being friends with the uncomfortable has brought adventure and mystery back to my life. I'll try things I never thought I would. I am more than OK truly laughing at myself now, and learning from a challenging experience. This has made my life more enjoyable and has brought a sense of adventure back. The mental shift acquired by coming back to the barbell after facing a setback has helped me re-frame all perceived challenges that come my way.
My Body Is Capable of Strength, and I Own It
During recovery and throughout most of my life, I often found myself asking several questions quite frequently. Mostly after flashbacks and bad dreams of abuse, I would ask, "Why did I not stop it? Why did I just stand there? Why didn't I just run away? Why didn't I fight back harder?"
It is hard to explain the joy that comes when you lift a weight that used to feel "heavy", but that same weight has come to feel "light". Getting strong physically increased feeling safe in my body. It made me believe that I will have a chance to fight back should I experience abuse again. As Rippetoe says, "Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general." The comfort that strength brings for my PTSD triggers is priceless. Knowing that I can change how the story ends if it happened to me now brings me peace.
There is a certain quietness that comes right before I am about to move a heavy barbell. Heavy weight gives me no choice but to focus on the task at hand. As the bar got heavier, I found my ability to go into my body and focus on its needs increase. This ability to quite myself, focus and listen as I command it to perform has followed me outside of the platform. Essentially, strength training has contributed to a new connection to my body. The knowledge that I have control of it.
One day I was talking with my coach and she told me to go ahead and deadlift 225lbs. My programming was off for that day, and my previous lift had felt too light. I didn't think there was anything special about that number at the moment other than feeling cool about having two 45lb plates on each side of the bar. After I lifted it, I teared up, got my stuff together and went to my car, and cried. It was tears of freedom and joy. I had done something I never thought I would work too so quickly. I felt strong, safe, and that my abuser would never be able to touch me again.
Since moving to train for strength, my anxiety, depression, and PTSD triggers have become dramatically better. I have a weird day every now and then, like when I had to learn to wear my belt, but nothing has made progress in my mental health like strength training. Strength training works to get you strong but it has so many other benefits. When I started I could barely do any of the four lifts with an empty bar. My current totals are 225lb squat, 82.5lb press, 128lb bench, and 235lb deadlift. I am strong and will continue to get stronger. I am whole. When people comment about my humor and joy today, I know it comes from a real place. I have lost almost 40lbs total from my lifetime heaviest weight in which was before my recovery process, and several inches and pant sizes. The recomposition my body has undergone so far are amazing.
Strength training has ignited a calling to become a coach and help others change their lives through the barbell like it has mine. Having a strong body develops many positive changes besides mental health, and I want to help others in their journey. I have well begun the extensive process of working towards my certification for strength coaching. If you are interested in strength training, I would love to help you start your journey and be your coach through it. Help me attain more experience and practice by clicking here to book your first free training session.


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Reframing Aging15
May 1, 2018 by Jean
Last week, I attended a Symposium on Aging put on by the interdisciplinary Aging Initiative at the University of Southern Maine in Portland.The all-day symposium included a plenary session, breakout sessions on a variety of topics, opportunities for networking, and a performance of Elizabeth Peavey's one-woman show, "My Mother's Clothes Are Not My Mother." The symposium was well worth the effort to be out of the house before 7:00 a.m. and at the USM campus in Portland for the 8:00 a.m. start.
Although I took away something of value from every part of the day, I found a presentation by Julie Sweetland especially enlightening. Sweetland is a sociolinguist at FrameWorks Institute, a nonprofit organization that focuses on helping other nonprofit organizations communicate their messages more effectively. FrameWorks Institute does this by studying the frames we use to understand social problems and providing suggestions about how to shift those frames. If you are not a linguist, you may be wondering what a "frame" is. Think of a frame as a story we tell to make sense of some event or issue.
Since this was a symposium on aging, Sweetland's presentation focused on how Americans frame aging. After presenting research findings about the stories we tell about aging and the negative images of aging that they reinforce, she provided research-based suggestions about how to shift those frames. Here is a chart from FrameWorks Institute's website that summarizes those suggestions:
One of the key themes of Sweetland's presentation was the need to shift from discussions of aging that frame it as a problem of people who are distinctly different from normal adults (a discourse that defines elders as "other") to discussions that emphasize continuity and use the language of "we" and "us." (You can see this shift in many of the examples above.) I hope to explore what this means for my own thinking about aging and ageism in a coming post.
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Well although that does sound like an interesting event, I bet we has a better time slamming a few brews at The Spar Tree in Grannet Falls. Perhaps not quite so intellectual but I bet we laughed a bit more! Just so you know how some of the rest of us live. I hope this made you smile.
Our suburb is known as the newly wed and nearly dead.
We include 2 primary schools, a large high school and a technical college ;~)
Thank you for this post. I am passionate about framing aging and attendant issues in a positive way. For 6 years I facilitated a group for women over 60 and at our very first gathering we listed the negative words we hear (and believe) about aging as well as the positive. The negative list was three times as long. We re-did it a year after meeting together monthly and the positive list was longer! I felt good about doing some consciousness raising and helping us all reframe our experience in a more positive light. My sadness and ire is aroused when I hear older people denigrate and stereotype themselves. Is it a "I'll beat you to your judgment by saying out loud what I think you are thinking"? Or is it how some people really feel about themselves because they've been taught by our culture to do so? Either way, I work hard to change that mindset, but I suppose some are sick of my constantly pointing out that we don't have to be what society and our culture has labeled us. Anyway, thanks!
This is fantastic! I am interested.
Hi Jean! Just discovered your blog because I, too, am fascinating about ways to age in a positive way. I'm not quite yet retired…but I am aging and want to make the absolute most of it in the years to come. That's why I also write about it as much as I can and spread the word that there are far more opportunities available as we age than I ever knew before. I've never heard of Sweetland before but appreciate her perspective on the need to reframe the experience. Thank you for sharing! ~Kathy


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It's quite nice to make your dead body useful when you're gone and it will appeal to many people. One thing you can do is to turn it into compost and you know what, it smells great!
"It's a lot like you would get at a nursery: a bag of topsoil, that rich, earthy material. It will be dry, very consistent and fluffy."Katrina Spade who developed the method
Until now you could have your body buried or cremated. The citizens of Washington State, USA are spearheading another choice, namely, to make compost. It sounds a bit gruesome. Corpses are placed in reusable steel vessels. They add a mixture of wood chips, straw and alfalfa. Beforehand they remove artificial limbs, artificial hips and pacemakers. The containers are rotated for 30 days to maximise the oxygen flow which allows the microbes to break down the body.
Not only do you get compost you also save the planet because disposing of a body this way avoids the production of more than a tonne of carbon dioxide. I'm told that cremation releases about 540 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere from burning fuel and the remains.
And when you bury a body there is the risk of the embalming chemicals leaching into the ground. To that you can add the problems of space and the necessity of manufacturing coffins and headstones which have an impact upon the planet's resources.
The cost to turn your body into compost is about US$5000 whereas the cost of the average burial in America is $7000 and $1100 for a basic cremation.
The plan is to compost about 800 bodies annually.
"We expect that a lot of people will be very curious even before someone dies."Spade
They're calling it a "death positive" movement. The business is hopeful that this third option will be selected by a significant number of people and I agree with them.
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As we come towards the end of Mental Health Awareness Week 2020, its theme of kindness feels more relevant and crucial than ever. We find ourselves in the midst of a global pandemic where alongside difficult feelings of uncertainty, anxiousness and isolation, we also have seen remarkable acts of community, connectedness and kindness.
Many of my professional and personal reflections at this time have centred around the role of kindness both in a global sense but also specifically about the role of kindness towards ourselves. The role of self compassion and kindness is now needed more than ever, as we find ourselves in a period of extended lockdown where many of the things that normally support our well=being are temporarily unavailable to us.
Showing compassion and kindness towards ourselves often requires a process of relearning, of noticing our tendency for negative self talk or in developing an ability to take some mindful time out to help us to recognise what support we may want or need. Self kindness and compassion is often a central theme in my work as a school counsellor, supporting young people to acknowledge and celebrate that they are 'good enough' and that when they can come into relationship with kindness towards themselves, many shifts will start to occur.
"Self Compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others " – Christopher Germer.


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Unfreezing Kosovo's politics
Kosovo's government collapses. Can America help?
By T.J.
KOSOVO'S government has collapsed. If a caretaker administration cannot be formed within eight days then new elections will have to be held within 45 days. The news comes three days after Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, visited the country and urged Kosovo and Serbia to begin talks on practical issues.
The collapse was precipitated by an announcement this morning from Fatmir Sejdiu, leader of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), that his party would withdraw from the governing coalition on Monday. Mr Sejdiu was president of Kosovo until his resignation on September 27th, following a ruling by the constitutional court that he could not occupy the posts of party leader and president simultaneously.
Yesterday Jakup Krasniqi, the acting president, announced that elections would be held on February 13th. However it seems that the LDK had not agreed to this. Moreover, I have heard that the announcement also surprised Hashim Thaci, the prime minister, and other senior figures in the rival Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK).
Enver Hoxhaj, the minister of education and a member of the PDK, says the party is in favour of early elections. This is unsurprising. The LDK is in the midst of a leadership battle and thus in disarray (which makes the reason for Mr Sejdiu's move this morning unclear). Ramush Haradinaj, the leader of the main opposition party, is in detention at the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, and the new party of Albin Kurti, the most popular politician in the country, has not yet taken proper shape. Mr Thaci recently described the political situation as "frozen".
"In short," says one source, "there is really no coherent opposition and no charismatic opposition politician who could lead a movement against Thaci and the PDK." Polls—which may be unreliable—suggest the PDK would emerge from elections as the strongest party.
"The unknown factor," says the source, is "what course of action the US embassy will push." Ambassadors from friendly countries play an important role in shaping Kosovo's politics, and none more so than Chris Dell, the American ambassador, who met Mr Thaci this afternoon.
It is too early to say how the collapse of the government will affect any talks with Serbia, but if elections are held in December then talks could begin early next year. There is little prospect of anything moving before then: in the run-up to elections no Kosovo Albanian leader will talk to Serbia for risk of being labelled a traitor.
Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008. In July the International Court of Justice, in an advisory opinion, said that the declaration had not been contrary to international law. Kosovo has been recognised by 70 countries, including 22 of the 27 EU member states. Its independence is opposed by Serbia, Russia, China and others.
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Social and human challenges in First World Countries: what is Kodokushi?
Hikikomori; Kodokushi; Karoshi. All of these are words representing different phenomena in the Japanese society. Such phenomena were not simply originated by the Japanese society; the latter two are also only existing in Japan. But what do those word mean?
The first one, Hikikomori, is now a widely known problem, that has spread to other countries as well. The word is used to refer to young people – mainly teenagers – that decide to cut out the outer world and bury themselves under the shelter of the walls of their home or even of their room. Kodokushi is a fairly new social and humanitarian problem: the problem of elderly people that lead themselves to an apathic state and then slowly to death. These people are normally lonely and spend the last years of their life with little, if any, contact with other people. This explains another feature associated with this word: often the bodies of the dead are found months, if not years later and most of the times this happens only because a neighbour complains about the smell or because the flat owner notices a prolonged stop in the payment of the rent. As to Karoshi, the word is linked to a long-lasting phenomenon in the Japanese job market: the death by too much work or too much stress. Japan is not the only country of the world that has to deal with labour force exploitation, but it is the only one among the G8 countries to publish official government statistics regarding the number of people affected and the only one to have a legislation to solve the disputes among companies and employees in such situations.
Societies around the world have developed in very different ways and are based on different values, some of them changing over time, some of them seemingly innate, unchanging. Some of the features – and subsequent problems - of the Japanese society are linked on one hand to deeply Japanese values (their willingness to work as hard as they can, regardless of the physical and mental costs to achieve a goal) and on the other to the late response of governments to pressing social issues – as in the case of the social alienation of teenagers and elderly.
After having spent 5 months here, I felt that it was time to write about the Japan and the Japanese society, because despite saying that every society is unique and has its own positive and negative features, I have never seen a more complex, contradictory and articulated society than the Japanese one; what is also interesting, is that in Europe we only get a small insight of this troubled and yet fascinating society.
Multiple societies in Europe will have to face issues linked with population aging, issues that are already challenging the Japanese society since a decade. Looking at Japan and at its winning strategies and mistakes, will help us understand how to avoid negative humanitarian effects of the aging population, such as the Kodokushi reality. The fact that modern societies tend to be ultra-individualistic exacerbates this phenomenon, that is now contributing to the development of a new sector in the economy in Japan, namely the one for handling all the processes that follow from a Kodokushi death – that is, noticing the family of the death, handling the corpse to provide a funeral, re-establishing order and cleaning the places were death took place and that hosted the body for a prolonged time.
Kodokushi is still an unknown phenomenon in Europe, but it will become one increasingly urgent in the future. The challenge for today's societies is to balance the aging of the population with the individualism that characterises many aspects of life. Leaving people on their own for years, letting them grow old in complete solitude and without any social structure as a support, will have devastating consequences. When an individual considers its own life worthless enough to give up caring about herself and to stop eating, until death occurs, it means that our societies have reached a point of no-return.
A huge part of our lives is nowadays focused on succeeding and on caring about our individual interests, forgetting about ancestral values such as the value of the community and the common good. Unfortunately, after a given individual stops being productive and gets old, his is completely forgotten. Elderly people are set aside and left alone to die, in the midst of the phrenetic life that goes on for everyone else.
Kodokushi is a new disturbing phenomenon. Seeking a solution to it will require an analysis of the phenomenon not only in economic and social terms, but through a human dimension too. We will need to understand on which values we want to build future societies and whether the values embodied by today's societies are sustainable in terms of basic human rights.
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We evaluated the long-term (1995-2008) trends in foliar and sapwood metabolism, soil solution chemistry and tree mortality rates in response to chronic nitrogen (N) additions to pine and hardwood stands at the Harvard Forest Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) site. Common stress-related metabolites like polyamines (PAs), free amino acids (AAs) and inorganic elements were analyzed for control, low N (LN, 50 kg NH4NO3 ha-1 year-1) and high N (HN, 150 kg NH4NO3 ha-1 year-1) treatments. In the pine stands, partitioning of excess N into foliar PAs and AAs increased with both N treatments until 2002. By 2005, several of these effects on N metabolites disappeared for HN, and by 2008 they were mostly observed for LN plot. A significant decline in foliar Ca and P was observed mostly with HN for a few years until 2005. However, sapwood data actually showed an increase in Ca, Mg and Mn and no change in PAs in the HN plot for 2008, while AAs data revealed trends that were generally similar to foliage for 2008. Concomitant with these changes, mortality data revealed a large number of dead trees in HN pine plots by 2002; the mortality rate started to decline by 2005. Oak trees in the hardwood plot did not exhibit any major changes in PAs, AAs, nutrients and mortality rate with LN treatment, indicating that oak trees were able to tolerate the yearly doses of 50 kg NH4NO3 ha-1 year-1. However, HN trees suffered from physiological and nutritional stress along with increased mortality in 2008. In this case also, foliar data were supported by the sapwood data. Overall, both low and high N applications resulted in greater physiological stress to the pine trees than the oaks. In general, the time course of changes in metabolic data are in agreement with the published reports on changes in soil chemistry and microbial community structure, rates of soil carbon sequestration and production of woody biomass for this chronic N study. This correspondence of selected metabolites with other measures of forest functions suggests that the metabolite analyses are useful for long-term monitoring of the health of forest trees.
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Minocha, Rakesh; Turlapati, Swathi A.; Long, Stephanie; McDowell, William H.; Minocha, Subhash C. 2015. Long-term trends of changes in pine and oak foliar nitrogen metabolism in response to chronic nitrogen amendments at Harvard Forest, MA. Tree Physiology, Vol. 35(8): 894-909. doi:10.1093/treephys/tpv044. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpv044.


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White Christians now make up less than half of the U.S. population, largely receding from the majorities of most demographic groups, with one notable exception: the Republican Party.
According to the latest results from Pew Research Center's Religious Landscape survey published Monday by National Journal's Next America project, just 46 percent of American adults are white Christians, down from 55 percent in 2007.
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A few years ago, my husband, Stuart, and I began seeing a marriage counselor. You know the saying, "Things will get worse before they get better"? Well, this was definitely true for us.
During our counseling sessions, we learned the importance of expressing our needs to each other and not having expectations the other person had no idea about. For example, Stuart needed some alone time apart from work, and I needed his help with our sons when he wasn't at work. Our boys were 3 and a half and 1 and a half at the time. For those of you who are parents, you know those ages combined are a LOT of work.
For a while, expressing our needs had been helping our communication. Until one day when our needs were clearly in conflict.
And that's when I lost it.
Stuart had asked to go fishing to get some alone time like we'd discussed in counseling. I said yes because I wanted to give him what he needed. But when the day came and he began getting his fishing gear ready, reality dawned on me.
It had probably been a draining and overwhelming day of parenting—which, let's be honest, seemed to be most days. I melted down. Like full-on Wicked Witch of the West style.
"I hate this! I can't give you what you need! You need alone time, and I just can't give it to you!" I cried.
Thankfully, he didn't react to my emotional outburst. He knew there was something bubbling under the surface we needed to figure out. Instead, he called his parents and asked them to take our boys for a couple of nights so we could have uninterrupted time to focus on our marriage.
We spent the weekend talking, crying (mostly me), and just being us. Not as Mom and Dad, but as Jenn and Stuart.
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For about six months following that "event" (sounds a little better than meltdown), Stuart's parents took our boys one weekend a month to give us time and space to intentionally work on our marriage.
When you have children, it puts a natural strain on your marriage. Kids are the best, and I'm so glad we became parents. But it just changes the dynamics of your relationship with your spouse. And we were at a point where we needed help.
Others came around us as well. My mom paid for a babysitter one morning a week so I could focus on work and myself. I could read my Bible without being interrupted. I could write, workout, or go grocery shopping. Alone.
Ecclesiastes 4:12 (NIV) says, "Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken."
Although our marriage was made up of three strands—God, Stuart, and me—we needed to care for it. Our cord was frayed by the realities of life: parenting, ministry work, and, of course, being the selfish human sinners we all are at our core.
Getting some alone time, whether individually or together, was healing for our marriage and our three-strand cord. (Although my dad would disagree, sometimes duct tape is not enough.)
Preparing for the storms
We've all heard, "It takes a village to raise a child." But I think it takes being in true community with others and communion with the Lord to not lose yourself in the busyness and trappings of life. Sometimes we just need to step back, pause, take a breath, and evaluate ourselves and our lives in order to keep everything from boiling over.
Although our parents don't pay for babysitters or take our boys for a weekend every month anymore, I'm so thankful for that time. We needed it to reconnect with each other and the Lord. It helped us remember how important it is to continue dating each other. And that before we were a family of four, we were a family of two. And that relationship needs continual, tender, loving care to remain a strong foundation, able to withstand the storms of the world.
"Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it" (Matthew 7:24-27).
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Jenn Grandlienard grew up an East Coast Philly girl, but now loves calling the Midwest her home. She lives in Xenia, Ohio with her husband, Stuart, two sons, Knox and Zeke, and pup, Crosby. Jenn and her husband work with Athletes in Action, a ministry of Cru that teaches college athletes what it means to have a relationship with Jesus. She loves to read, work out, laugh really hard with friends, and spend time with her husband and boys. You can check out her blog about all these things and more at OurGrandLife.com. Find her on Instagram at @heyjenngrand and on Facebook.


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