Exponential Ramblings

    As a friend told me once, things happen to you but your response is greater than what happened. My family was not prepared for trauma. Usually when people experience major life problems they see the help of a family friend who may encourage them to seek professional help. Up until the past ten or so years, seeking out the help of a therapist was frowned upon. My grandmother frowned upon shrinks and passed it down to her children and so forth. Psychology was a relatively new field in their day and neuroscience has come a long way since then. You were considered weak if you sought out help outside the family.     As I am lying in bed at 3 AM, as I often do in my sleep cycle, I thought about where the origination point of trauma and symptoms occurred. My family was in a major car accident around Christmas when I was fifteen. We were lucky to walk away from it. Two months later, my fingers turned white during Winterguard practice in the gymnasium and the pain was ...

   The idea of using spoons to measure the energy of people with invisible and chronic illness is not a new concept. You could use any object that you wish. Some people use the change around their house to keep track of their energy levels. Spoons happen to be an excellent visual simply because there is only so much material that can be held in standard tablespoon before the material you gathered with it overflows.    So how does it work? Think of each spoon as a fixed amount of energy you have to give to tasks. Every day is going to vary in how much energy you have to give. If you wake up feeling like you only have one spoon of energy, save it for yourself. Today, I am guessing that I have about four or five spoons to give. I automatically save one spoon for me. I also know that I have to work tonight and that might require one to two spoons depending on the busyness of the store. There is a threat for severe thunderstorms that may produce severe wind events so I...