How not to take rejection and disappointment so personally in your personal and professional relationships
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The Supreme Court’s Decision to Impede Young Minds
The Supreme Court’s decision to effectively end race-conscious admissions is especially having an effect on me. Scary memories of intimidation by the Klan with the integration of the University of Alabama.
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Trying to Feel Safe but Old Fears Keep Assaulting Me
I like to think of myself as pretty fearless and gutsy but not so much with all the news of smash-and-grabs, assaults and shootings. My PTSD-like visceral response comes from old fears when I was a Child Protective Social Worker…
Categories: Anxiety, Assaults PTSD. Fight, Danger, Fawn, Fear, Fear, Flight, Guns, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Resilience, Safety, Safety and Security, Security, Self-care, Shootings, Stress, Trauma, Trust -
In the Spirit of Teamwork
Hakeem Jefferies and Keven McCarthy are teaming up to create a bipartisan task force to ensure due process on House committee removal. Moving forward from the past two years of punishing legislators by removing them from committee assignments. Teamwork usually…
Categories: Communication, conflict resolution, Conflict resolution, Current Affairs, direct communication, Hakeem Jeffries, House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, Listened to, Heard, and Understood, negotiation, persuasion, Politics, Rejection, Relationships, Resentment, resentment, respect, Respect, Style Differences, Taking Personally, teamwork, Teamwork, Voter Suppression, Workplace