The Nesting Syndrome

I was probably around 35 years old before someone told me I was not subject to my thought life.  I didn’t realize that, when my mind would wander over into strange territory, that I could control my mind and stop it from going into those places.  You can have a barrage of terrible thoughts hit you all at once and you will become what those thoughts are if you dwell there.  When those thoughts come toward you, I like the old adage that says you can’t stop the birds from flying over you, but you can keep them from building … Continue Reading

Making It Yours

Making It Yours

  When I was a little kid, I heard my aunt say to my mother that I have an olive complexion.  The only olive I had ever seen was green.  I looked at myself in the mirror and asked myself if I was really green.  I did not know that what it really meant was that I had a tanned complexion.  For years and years the thought came to me that when people looked at me I looked green to them.  I worked that into my fear of being around people.  My aunt was not trying to put me down.  … Continue Reading