Friday, December 30, 2011

Got Plans for Tomorrow Night?

I wish I was going to their NYE party…



Zooey Deschanel is probably my #1 Lady Crush right now. She is super talented. Funny as shit. Sexy. Great actor. Phenomenal singer.  And she helped found this awesome website HelloGiggles that I will now become addicted to.
She represents a lot of things that I want to be do.
So let’s keep my New Years resolutions simple:
  1. Find Balance.
  2. Copy Zooey.
Wish me luck!

What DO You Wear to a Psychic Group Reading?

The plus one and I were invited to a psychic group reading tonight.
Yes.  I said psychic group reading. Stop laughing.
I’m serious.  Stop it.
Despite a muddled history of spiritual, religious, philosophical, and scientific beliefs, neither the plus one nor I had ever actually talked to a psychic before. Personally, I kind of liked keeping the New Age stuff at a distance… because if I didn’t really research it, then I wouldn’t have proof that it wasn’t real.
… I like believing in things.
But anyway.  We decided to go.  That it would be fun.  I mean, the host was serving booze and munchies.
Our medium for the evening was none other than Allyson Walsh of the Psy-Dentical Twins.
Stop.  Laughing.
Allyson was a very nice lady.  She told interesting stories from her childhood, work experience, and paranormal culture.  She concentrated on each person in the group for fifteen minutes or so, interpreting information she received from symbols and spirits that only she could see and hear.
While I truly do believe that some people are more tuned-in to the energies that people can give off, different planes/levels of cognition, and the collective unconscious… some of these “interpretations” were inferences anyone with a couple years of mental health training could make.
But I am not going to spend the next thirty minutes debunking everything she said. Partly because it defeats the purpose of the whole event. And partly because of what she said to me.
Among the random family history crap, the flawed medical advice, and the visions of me travelling to Europe for personal enlightenment and food touring, this lady told me that I was going to be a creative writer.
On the day I start blogging again… this lady tells me that I will find some “hook” or series to write about… that I will probably write for several genres including children… and that my books will be “evergreen,” in that they will be published and republished year after year.
… yeah. Fuck me.

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Sweet?!


Wow, Common.  Way to have a mid-life crisis.

… glad I’m not the only one.

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Psychology 101

It’s true what they say about psychologists.  Almost all of us went into the field because we wanted to fix something.
Maybe the codependent friends we somehow ended up with. Or that bad relationship we seem to keep repeating. The broken family we grew up in. That shitty school we went to. Or even society’s view of… anything everything.
All I know is that we weren’t pleased with whatever it was, and that we wanted to change it.  That somehow, having letters after our name would make us more qualified to change it.
We never seem to be able to admit that what we really need to change is ourselves.  We’d much rather dedicate our time, energy, and money learning how to help change others others change.
I am now in my 7th year of studying some sort of psychology, and only now do I see that I have been hungry for solutions to my own problems – not everyone else’s.
Maybe I thought that by facilitating enough positive change/growth in others, I would experience it myself as well… like through osmosis.  Maybe I thought that training to become a psychologist would save me the trouble of having to get one.  Maybe I thought that the people in my life would be more willing to work with me if they thought I was some sort of an expert.
… maybe I thought I would be more willing to work with myself if I thought I was some sort of an expert.