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On Death and Dying: July 2024 Movie Reviews
Dick Johnson is Dead Faces Death Squarely in the Face in an Entertaining Format Click here for Dick Johnson is Dead on Netflix, is the funniest movie that I have seen this year. It also happens to be the best movie about death among the four that I am reviewing here and so it is…
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Write a Blog and You’re Sittin’ on Top of the World
LegalNoodle Has Returned LegalNoodle has returned because I cannot live without blogging. I deeply regret intentionally letting the old LegalNoodle.com website die. I decided I didn’t want the financial expense or time involved in blogging. I was wrong. Now I am back. So welcome to the new LegalNoodle.com site also known as Culver City –…
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Transformation
I Am No Longer Joe Btfsplk. No longer do I walk around with a rain cloud perpetually hanging over my head like Joe Btfsplk, the character from the Lil’ Abner comic series. In photos of me as a child I always look kind of sad and depressed. My siblings and I have a look of…
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13. EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitizing Reprocessing is part thirteen of my thirteen part commentary and synopsis of The Body Keeps the Score, Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk. 1. INTRODUCTION: Childhood Trauma Causes Addiction 2. 12 Steps & 12 Traditions: Damaging Emotional Conflicts 3. Trauma Damages Left Brain Speech…
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10. Adaptations to Trauma
Adaptations to Trauma is part ten of my fourteen part commentary and synopsis The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, and most of this post is a verbatim reprint thereof. Adaptations to trauma can be so severe that health-care providers and patients often believe that full recovery is beyond reach. I was…
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6. Healing Childhood Trauma
Practicing mindfulness calms down the localized reflexive nervous system so that we are less likely to be thrown into fight, flight, freeze, or fuck. What were you thinking right before you threw yourself into a dry drunk? What was going on inside your mind right before you acted out your emotional trauma?
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1 & 2 The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel van der Kolk
1. INTRODUCTION: Childhood Trauma Causes Addiction 2. 12 Steps & 12 Traditions: Damaging Emotional Conflicts 3. Trauma Damages Left Brain Speech 4. BIOFEEDBACK: Meditation on Steroids 5. INTEROCEPTION: Traumatic Awareness 6. What Were You Thinking Right Before You Acted Out Your Childhood Trauma? 7. Communication is the Opposite of Trauma 8. ALEXITHYMIA: Inability to Feel…
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Culver City City Hall
The Culver City Hall grounds are very inviting to the casual pedestrian looking for a relaxing environment in the big city. I have never even been to this location when the government buildings are open to the public. Taking interior photos someday soon will be used for a future blog. When I walk to my…
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The Abnormal Heart
Tomorrow I have an appointment with my Beverly Hills cardiologist. He wants to discuss my abnormal heart scan test results after my gated myocardial perfusion PET scan of March 29, 2024. My myocardial perfusion test result indicates definitely abnormal with both reversible and nonreversible defects. I am very happy with Cedars-Sinai and I would heartily…
