hello, i just joined this tribe. i have been battling with shyness since i was a kid, but i used to be an outgoing person. when my family and i moved to AZ in 96, my outgoingness went downhill. i became too shy to the point where i would hide from ppl if someone wanted to chat with me, and i didnt make that many friends in school. i started college in 04 hoping to make new friends, but i have been to college for 3 yrs and still havent made any friends.
its still a battle for me, i only hang out with my fiance or sometimes my best friend from high school. i dont really talk to that many ppl from hs anymore. im severely depressed, ive been trying to work on my interpersonal communication skills. i started going to meetups in my area, but the ppl are 2 old for me to hang out with. i hate being alone, i feel like i am missing out in life like parties and clubs. i cry constantly (lately i havent) because of my severe issues i am having. its like no one isnt interested in getting to know me, it used to be ppl were always wanting to get to know me. im still trying to fix my life and i havent seen any changes in it yet. how can you tell if someone you meet is interested in you and wants to hang out, but they dont ask you if they want to chill with u? i want to go back to being an outgoing person, i hate celebrating my bdays with just my fiance and not any of my friends. i am going to join toastmasters.org to improve my interpersonal communication skills.
anybody have any suggestions or stories they would like to share?
its still a battle for me, i only hang out with my fiance or sometimes my best friend from high school. i dont really talk to that many ppl from hs anymore. im severely depressed, ive been trying to work on my interpersonal communication skills. i started going to meetups in my area, but the ppl are 2 old for me to hang out with. i hate being alone, i feel like i am missing out in life like parties and clubs. i cry constantly (lately i havent) because of my severe issues i am having. its like no one isnt interested in getting to know me, it used to be ppl were always wanting to get to know me. im still trying to fix my life and i havent seen any changes in it yet. how can you tell if someone you meet is interested in you and wants to hang out, but they dont ask you if they want to chill with u? i want to go back to being an outgoing person, i hate celebrating my bdays with just my fiance and not any of my friends. i am going to join toastmasters.org to improve my interpersonal communication skills.
anybody have any suggestions or stories they would like to share?
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Wed, November 28, 2007 - 11:43 AMFor me it's been a matter of accepting who I am and deciding what things are most important in my life.
I never had a huge number of friends in school, but the friends I did have were very close friends, and I'm still friends with many of them (even though they all live hundrends and even thousands of miles away now). I really didn't make any new close friends in college at all during the five and a half years I was there. Most new friends I made came through the place I worked.
I used to feel like I was missing out by not going to parties or clubs, but I eventually decided that in all honesty I'm not that interesting in those sorts of things. When I went to them I didn't have fun, so why in the world would I want to do them? The trick is to figure out what things you do enjoy and then do those things. It may also help to put the shoe on the other foot: many of the folks who do go to clubs and parties all the time are missing out on having really close, deep, meaningful interpersonal relationships. In other words, I may be missing out on something but it's not something that I'm really missing. And there are plenty of other really good things about my life that I wouldn't want to trade for the things I'm missing out on. Y'know?
My birthday is actually tomorrow (I'll be 30... ugh), and who am I celebrating it with? Family. One of my out of town friends may come in to town to visit, or we might do something for my birthday at another time. My girlfriend lives two hours away so she won't be able to make it (we're probably going to go out to eat just the two of us for my birthday this weekend). But you know what? That's okay with me. Those are the people I want to spend time around anyway, so I'm perfectly happy if they're the only ones celebrating my birthday with me :) -
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Wed, November 28, 2007 - 2:45 PMparties and clubs i do enjoy, as long as it involves some type of alcohol and at a bar setting. i am not the type of person who wants to stay home and sleep all day. im the type of person who loves to be out 'n' about. ive met way 2 many ppl who didnt like goin to parties or clubs, to me, those kinds of ppl bore the hell out of me and they are the ones that dont like goin out. plus im not interested in babysitting them either. its hard making friends at the college i go to because its a dead atmosphere and it reminds me too much of high school.
my life just sucks overall, i dont have any type of guidance or anything to help me get through with what i need to do. umm, everything where i live is too far to even travel too. im gonna be 22 next year and still havent gone to any parties or clubs, the ppl i meet that do that only want me to find my own way to these events, basically they were not friend material. i do know what i enjoy and what i dont, but i also want to try other things too, which i just now started to figure out.
im a people person not an introvert and im tired of being an introvert! been sheltered way 2 much of my life. thats who i am is a people person, thats what i have accepted about myself and i have accepted the fact that im way 2 shy. my bday is in jan, who is gonna spend time with me on my bday? just my fiance thats it no one else but him. all i been doing is sulking and whining, but thats not helping much. i would like to have deep meaningful relationships with friends, but also i want someone who is fun not someone who is gonna put me 2 sleep lol, ive met 2 many of those.
i get tired of trying to find friends off of myspace when all i get is shit thrown in my face for trying to find good friends i can relate to, instead all i get is users, negative jerks, liars, and fakes. what can i do to improve myself? i gotta get going -
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Thu, November 29, 2007 - 6:15 AMmarquis: "ive met way 2 many ppl who didnt like goin to parties or clubs, to me, those kinds of ppl bore the hell out of me and they are the ones that dont like goin out."
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To each their own, I suppose. Well, if you like going out partying and to clubs then I guess you could start going out 3-5 nights a week to a place that you like, and eventually people there will start recognizing you as a "regular" and everyone will feel like they know you at least a little bit, which probably makes it easier to make friends there. At the very least, you'd get to recognize the other regulars, and since they're obviously the sort who also enjoy going out to parties and clubs then odds are you've got something in common and would enjoy doing things together. Can't help you much more than that, because that's not my thing at all. You'd definitely be bored to death around me and my friends ;)
marquis: "thats what i have accepted about myself and i have accepted the fact that im way 2 shy. "
That's not accepting things about yourself, that's the exact opposite. It's rejecting things about yourself. Those are characteristics that you're trying to get rid of. Which is okay, too, but it's harder to do.
marquis: "all i get is users, negative jerks, liars, and fakes. what can i do to improve myself?"
Hmmm. My only thoguht there is that if the only things you're catching are things you don't want, perhaps you're fishing with the wrong bait? Perhaps something in your myspace page attracts those kinds of people? Might be worth giving some thought to, although if extended introspection isn't your ball of wax then I guess you could find someone else female on myspace who appears to be the kind of person you want to be and who has the kinds of friends you want and then make your page look like hers. -
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Thu, November 29, 2007 - 7:49 AMi havent been to any parties or clubs anyway, i just party with some friends. i dont wanna go to parties or clubs by myself, that would make me look like a loser and a loner. clubs start late so i dont have a car to get to them, i cant go out by myself i dont feel secure as a person doing that. thats why i am so attach to someone that is with me when i do go out. the party ppl i meet didnt even wanna pick me up, go to the clubs or parties, but expected me to find my way. im like fuck that, some friend(s).
i have done some changing on my myspace profile, no i hardly get anyone emailing me. when i do, its ppl from different states. all i get is businesses trying to add me, fine with me. in my profile, im opinionated and that turns off alot of ppl, we know why. im tired of meeting ppl off the net, i hardly get a good success rate of ppl. its a disappointment every time i meet someone offline just about. i dont make my myspace look like someone else's, its suppose to be different. i did one time email a girl i like and thought was cool, but i never got an reply back im like that was stupid. maybe i should do some editing with my myspace.
the ppl i thought had similiar interests, none of them were not good friend material maybe like 2 but the rest were sorry. im usually not home everyday anyway. im not interested in makin friends at parties or clubs, i know the 2 reasons why ppl go to them anyway. about my myspace page, i really dont know how to use colorful descriptive words to attract people, i dont like describing myself and i only give a vague history about myself.
i dont know, i dont feel that advice helped me much. i might as well keep sulking until someone gives me a solution to my problem. not really telling me what to do or how to do it. after finals, i am gonna go to some social organization clubs, ill have to find a way to get there.
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Thu, November 29, 2007 - 9:12 AMMarquis,
Something happened during or after that move to AZ that caused trauma to you and changed a basic sense of boundaries and protectedness you used to have before the move. If you think back to that time, I bet you could remember something that took place back then...I will check back later for your reply, should you choose to. Spirit Wolf -
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Thu, November 29, 2007 - 11:10 AMspirit wolf,
cool name! when we moved to AZ, my mom basically didnt let me have any kind of a social life. i was 10 at the time, so all i did was go to school and come home. i never went anywhere from 5th grade to senior year pretty much, i always went out with my best friend but that was the only person i was allowed to go out with, kids here didnt even look that friendly or that approachable at the time. i was pretty much never encouraged to make friends, or get rid of my shyness, or any kind of help with my self esteem. so, i went around life being scared to death of ppl (including my own friends) and not wanting to talk to anyone. all i did was seclude myself in my own room, not going outside. back home in CA, i was pretty much free to express myself and everything was fine.
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Mon, December 3, 2007 - 7:46 PMThanks!
Wow, that's some pretty traumatic stuff that happened to you, and at an age when you are getting into your reasoning abilities, it must have halted that for you and in effect created a break in that area growth wise...the memories of which still live with that fragment. So that when you get around other people, it causes you to draw a mental blank and I suspect humility comes to play into it also, first a blank is drawn and then embarrassment for drawing a blank...a continual loop, key is to create a bridge back to the moment by seeing what happened then, at some point within the age of 23, 36, 49, 62 and so on. For me I became shy because of not being able to remember most of my third grade due I am sure, to violence I witnessed as a kid.
It sounds like a lot more was going on at that time that was traumatic for both you and your mom. I don't hear Dad involved in this picture?
For you, I suggest, when you are alone, meditate, if you do, on that child at that age, see him before you, see what he was feeling back then, in a new place, feeling lonely and alone at a time when he was going through so many changes. Let him remind you how he felt and what we thought, trying to cope in a new world and let him know his incredible value to you on as many levels as you can muster within reason.
Then tell him he never has to be alone again and that it is time for him to come back to you and that youw ill now take care of him and that he never has to be afraid to speak his truth again, that together, your truths will be heard and well received. See him meld into and become you. Allow it to happen, enjoy this experience. Then prepare to experience things you had forgotten about, things you were doing back then, like sticking your tongue out when you laughed, the innocence you held and more, enjoy the beauty within a ten year old that thought no one would ever understand and together you are both stronger, then hang on for the ride! Try it!
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Wed, December 5, 2007 - 8:49 AMhe was so busy with his bitch, he didnt spend any time with us. my mom was more concern about herself, money, and her damn jewelry. when we moved to az, my mom didnt let me have a social life (did i say that earlier)? instead of talking to her child, i was yelled at for pretty much anything! for some odd reason, i always feel like im being humilitated every time i talk to someone or if i cant understand something i end up looking stupid!
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Wed, December 5, 2007 - 12:45 PMMarquis,
What about before the move, what was life like prior to that? I can see you have anger/propulsion energy and it is justified, do you know how to use functionally? I am no psychologist, but I know about people and healing. I think I can make some suggestions that can be very helpful to you if you would like to hear them. If not, I will understand and not mention it again.
Meanwhile, of course you feel humiliation whenever you talk to someone, you were basically told by both your parents you had no worth, no value. As children we tend to see things as if mom and dad cannot find value in us, who can? But the truth is, that we all are equal in value, the problem you are faced with is how to experience this truth for yourself.
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Fri, December 7, 2007 - 10:41 PMbefore we moved to AZ, life was okay. parents always arguing, at that time my mom all she did was smoke, drink tea, and never did anything with herself. dad never home, with his bitch, came home when he felt like it. i remember my dad was mad about something, grabbed my mom by the shirt and pushed her into the microwave oven. normally, im not an angry person, as i got older i became even more angrier. no, i dont know how to use functionally. ive been thinking about healing like reiki, what healing techs do u know?
"Meanwhile, of course you feel humiliation whenever you talk to someone, you were basically told by both your parents you had no worth, no value."
isnt that the truth? thats why i have a hard time believing in myself or feeling good when i get better grades, nor did i even get good grades growing up anyway. thats why i have a hard time working, maybe i guess. every time someone compliments me, i sometimes dont take it cuz i never really got complimented by my own parents that much. no one in this damn family of mine cant seem to understand why i am like this or feel like crap all the time. i grew up with no confidence or self esteem. -
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Sat, December 8, 2007 - 12:02 PMHi Marquis,
Well there isn't anything you can do about your parents, but I suspect you already came to that conclusion. But there is a lot you can do to help yourself heal and grow from the situation. The key is, you need to be wanting to heal and grow from them before any techniques can help.
You grew up in a highly dysfunctional family, I think most of us do, but di varying degrees of dysfunction...but there is good news about that, and that is, it had a reason for happening, for being the way it was for us. The reason is what can be gained from that kind of situation! When I speak of gain I am talking about self worth, healing, SELF EMPOWERMENT and KNOWing your value in this world without doubt through experience. It is through dysfunctional situations and traumas in our lives that the truths and understanding and values can be gained. Without the challenge, where can there be growth?
The reason your mom never did anything but those things, is because she did not know how to do anything but those things and so she became stuck in them. She never gained the tools necessary to grow out of them so she always REMAINED A CHILD!!! The same is true with your dad. They only continually do what they know and what they can muster up the energy to do. Since that is such a hard life to live, they constantly seek out pleasurable activities, pleasurable to them that is, but they are still children in adult bodies. SO you cannot punish them, you can't beat them up, all you can do is treat them as you would a child without giving up much of yourself to do it.
Tools, that's what you are looking for, the tools. Thing is you already know them but don't realize you know them.
Example, as kids we grow up learning defense mechanisms and survival techniques as coping skills. These mechanisms and techniques are how we manage as children to survive living with the highly dysfunctional parents/guardians we have. The key is, what is the biggest lesson you have chosen to learn in this life? The answer is easy, the answer is, whatever your greatest challenge in this world is.
I will let this all sink in and wait to hear what you got out of it. But in the meantime, it would be important for you to know what kind of defense mechanisms and survival techniques you developed as a kid, so write them down for your own use. Pick one or two to talk about that you don't mind discussing in this arena with me.
Our defense mechanisms and survival techniques, are the masks we used as children and as adults as forms of protection. They can be anything from speaking really loud to get people to leave you alone, or as in your case, avoidance techniqes, ways you developed to avoid being around people.
This will enable me to tailer some ideas to your needs. Always, only with your permission.
Blessings, Spirit Wolf
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Thu, December 13, 2007 - 9:35 AMtrue, my mom is not the type of person to stand up for herself because if she was, she would of left my dad along time ago. she is still in a marriage she is not happy in. its sad how 2 ppl come from dysfunctional homes and both of them didnt really do anything to even help out themselves or the family. what you are saying does make a lot of sense.
my mom never taught me 'its okay to be depress, mad, sad, etc.' my mom is still a child, when i have to be the parent. apparently, she dont know how to be a parent at all! she has no skills whatsoever to even be a parent or know what the definition of a parent actually means. this family is really sorry as people! her teachings as a parent are horrible, if i am sad she could careless! she doesnt really care about my feelings. u know what i have been realizing lately? my mom has the attitude of 'i dont give a fuck about anything or anyone.' she always had a nasty attitude about something thats positive. as i was a kid, i was like that too - having a nasty attitude about something positive and could give a fuck. i always cared for my friends, then if i did something i wouldnt see it as wrong then i felt my conscious talking to me about what i did was wrong. i really dont know how to apologize to people because in my family, we dont apologize for being wrong or sorry.
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Thu, December 13, 2007 - 12:36 PMHello Marquis,
I don't know any support groups except groups online, what I can tell you is the reason your mom displays no skills is because she is still such a child in many ways, especially emotions and she feels powerless to make positive changes in her life. What you see her display is what she was taught by her parents. See the child she is, that is why you were given the aprent role at times, just as I am sure she was as a kid. It is reverse child rearing in a sense. So it makes sense that she taught you what she knew...and you dealt with it as best you could at the time. As painful as it was to experience, you managed to live through it, I wonder what positive things you learned from it? What directions and paths it has placed you on in your life...what is important though, is that now that you are an adult, what is it you are going to do with it?
I came from a highly dysfunctional family too. I always wondered why I seemed to be different from others, why I never felt like I fit in and often sought similarities of what seemed to me to be normal to mimic in others. I even found and bought a book once called how to appear to be normal, lol. There is no normal really, what there is, is happy and unhappy.
:) Today I can say I am happy, tomorrow, who knows, but overall these days, with all the hard work I put in to heal my familial issues, I feel good to be me and am not shy any more.
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Fri, December 14, 2007 - 10:48 AMHello!
well, my grandma sure did have horrible parenting skills when she was raising my mom. my great grandma (my grandma's mom) was a good nice person, my grandma is a hateful, bitter, mean, and angry person. thats exactly how mom is - the mirror image. good question, i never had anyone ask me anything positive i am learning out of this. this experience is helping me learn not to be an angry person, i would love to help anybody else who has been in my situation. ppl from other forums told me "i dont know how u managed to deal with it, but ur 21 and u should be proud for where u r today." to be quite honest about that, as a teen, i came close to suicide and running away. i became severely depress whenever my mom and i fight over the silliest lil things! im always sick with headaches and stress. i have even called CPS, not like they did crap. the police even came to my house to speak my mom about her probs, that is something i never knew about until junior yr they called me out of class and told me. my mom said i am doing this cuz i cant have my way, if thats the case, then i would of destroyed other ppl including my own family since i couldnt "have my way" all the time.
also, the direction its taking me is i feel like i am turning into my mom which i dont wanna be. if a parent role models someone who is always angry all the time chances are the child or children might learn and apply it to their daily lives. i tried to tell that to my dumb sister who is a parent, but insists its my fault for being angry, bitter, and hateful. i told her if thats the case, then why didnt u take me to see a shrink years ago? my sister used to say i used to be such a very nice person, what happen? im like gee, maybe if u were here in AZ u would know whats goin on! i realized that i dont want to see any important friend i know or make be in these kinds of situations that i am in whether they are in it with a boyfriend/hubby, family, or other friends. I'm also trying to learn not to be like that towards my fiance and other people. i can easily go from nice to super mean in a minute because of thats how my mom is learned it from her.
also, what do you think about a life coach helping me get through my problems? i am interested in healing techniques, but how can i be a positive happy person when i have to deal with the negativity at home everyday? how can healing techniques apply to that? i really dont see how my dad can deal with such a complete, unhappy, know it all, i know more than u, i dont care about u or ur feelings bitch for a wife!! how he is not an angry person because of my mom! -
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Sat, December 15, 2007 - 11:05 PMyou know like maybe he has a mistres, and so he dosn't need to get love and understanding from her cals he's geting it from somwer else.
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Sun, December 16, 2007 - 4:02 PMif my dad is cheating on my mom, then he would have a mistress. if he wants to find love somewhere else, then maybe he should divorce my mom. u know whats funny about his mistress? one time, she had a bf and my dad was the other man lol. its like an excuse to have someone on the side, u fucked up ur own marriage, plus the mistress or the other man is usually there for sex and could careless for ur feelings then they dont want u - so u r screwed both ways lol. -
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Mon, December 17, 2007 - 10:33 AMwell actualy, a mistress is usualy the result of a man who is in a position of social obligation to stay in a marage wer the love and or emotional suport is gone, they fall in love with the new woman but must stay with the other woman becals it would be a horible thing to do to them (and or the children and or them selfs ) socialy.
the other type of sex based afair is comparitivly rare but is far more likly to reach the public eye and public conchisness, since the type of peaple who are more likly to get involved in that sort of shalow afair are also less likly to havce qualms about exposing the relationship once things end , iether out of revenge or out of exaserbation or in an act of selfish coertion , and then of corse since the "sex lies and betrayal" type of afair is so much more sinsational and theatrical and outwardly eventfull it is more likly to be portrayed in entertainment venues , ther by leaving the general public with the impretion that that type of infidelity is more comon.
if it is the tye of seret that is rarly exposed it will not seem to be comon to the general public. but ask a preist , a sycologist , what is the most comon type of infedelity between good peaple who wish to do the rite thing and they will tell you that it is rarly about sex, it is almost always about love, and it is usualy ened out of fear of herting ones family, and it is a secret often taken to the grave by all partys involved , only ever confesed to preists and syiatric profetionals , becals that are the peaple in our society who are told secrets that are told to no-one else but ones self , god , and your chosen confesors.
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Sun, December 16, 2007 - 9:30 AMHi Marquis, this will probably be the last message I will be able to leave you until after Christmas, it's getting down to the wire now, and the wire is pinching me, lol.
"my grandma is a hateful, bitter, mean, and angry person. thats exactly how mom is - the mirror image." Yes a mirror image of what they were taught by their parents to be like. Are you seeing the connection yet? It's all getting passed down the line from parent to child! Don't you think it's time you broke your link of the chain? Native Americans say it takes 7 generations to remove a particular issue from the family tree. To do that, it takes healing, breaking the link in the chain is part of that healing, looking at what hurt us is another. As you can imagine, it takes a lot of links to make a chain!
"positive i am learning out of this. this experience is helping me learn not to be an angry person,"
How is it doing that?
"i would love to help anybody else who has been in my situation"
I think this is part of why people go through such horrible situations, the more we went through, the better we can help others.
"told me "i dont know how u managed to deal with it, but ur 21 and u should be proud for where u r today."
You can be proud of where you are today, you survived a lot!!!! Maybe it's time though for the next step in the process?
"as a teen, i came close to suicide and running away. i became severely depress whenever my mom and i fight over the silliest lil things! im always sick with headaches and stress."
It's hard to not feel depressed when you have only been told your whole life that you have no value, look at how strong a person you had to be to NOT attempt suicide! GOOD FOR YOU!
"i have even called CPS, not like they did crap. the police even came to my house to speak my mom about her probs, that is something i never knew about until junior yr."
CPS is limited in resources, and now you are past that, it is best to not dwell on what did not work. If it had worked, you would not have the opportunities you have today at your disposal, we would not be having this conversation for one. What opportunities? Time will tell.
"they called me out of class and told me. my mom said i am doing this cuz i cant have my way, if thats the case, then i would of destroyed other ppl including my own family since i couldnt "have my way" all the time. "
Your mother could not see past her own problems, she could not imagine how difficult it was for you because what she dealt with was all she had the energy for.
I believe we choose pre-birth the parents we have for what they can remind us we are here to heal and accomplish. Look at this following statement with that concept in mind:
"the direction its taking me is i feel like i am turning into my mom "
Of course you are, you choose her so she could remind you why you have come into this life, to heal these things because this life is not the only one you have experienced these things in. We cannot be expected to remember why we came here, so we choose certain people to be in our lives to help remind us and to help us overcome those obstacles! Like I am doing right now! That reminder has included in it the DNA predilections to go certain directions, seek certain things and accomplish certain goals. Even listening to certain people when they make sense to you like right now. Each of those attributes, just like in a video game, comes with their own set of limitations and problems to be overcome, but also with the tools needed to overcome and accomplish them. :) Cool eh? Life really is like a video game with levels to be accomplished before you can move on to the next level.
"the direction its taking me is i feel like i am turning into my mom which i dont wanna be. if a parent role models someone who is always angry all the time chances are the child or children might learn and apply it to their daily lives." Exactly! Breaking the links in the less than optimum chain is definitely a plus!
Your sister is a different person with her own levels to accomplish. She will NEVER understand, but she will come to appreciate your views one day as long as you continue to try to heal you "levels".
" i can easily go from nice to super mean in a minute because of thats how my mom is learned it from her. "
Yes, I know. And you may have learned it from your mom, but as an adult, it is now your responsibility to fix it. Blaming mom won't do that for you. Later on, as you heal, you will even be able to feel compassion for your mother AND your father!
"also, what do you think about a life coach helping me get through my problems?"
A life coach can do you a world of good! It takes commitment on both parts though, strong commitment!
"i am interested in healing techniques, but how can i be a positive happy person when i have to deal with the negativity at home everyday?"
Because it is your home environment that becomes your ''video game', your proving grounds and your practicing location. You will learn while you heal how to deal with things without intentionally hurting the people in your life. It takes work, a lot of it and practice, it takes as long as it takes and no longer or shorter. No one can predict that for you. But it is about self-empowerment and self-empowerment is nopt about how to get it over on another person. It is about feeling good about being you and knowing the direction you are headed without doubt. It's a lot, that's why it takes as long as it takes and why it cannot be predicted.
"how can healing techniques apply to that?"
It won't take long for you to understand how healing techniques apply to it.
"i really dont see how my dad can deal with such a complete, unhappy, know it all, i know more than u, i dont care about u or ur feelings bitch for a wife!! how he is not an angry person because of my mom!"
When you commit to yourself, your own healing, your own empowerment, you will need to understand that it is not your job to understand those things. But your healings and what you learn will help them...because you choose to heal, your whole family will grow in some areas and heal in some areas. But you must understand that is not your concern!
Have a wonderful holiday! See you all after Christmas! Blessings, Spirit Wolf
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Re: shyness prob what can i do to improve myself?
Mon, December 17, 2007 - 10:20 PMi am also learning how to be helpful towards other people, trying not to be negative about other stuff, and also learning how to strive hard for other people. for example, when i met my fiance, i strive hard everyday for him to be successful and happy. i hope my sister does understand, thats if we dont fight about it.
someone else in another forum said the same thing u said 'feeling no value or some kind of appreciation.' thats how i always felt, there isnt anything wrong with me if i feel someone is not appreciating anything i do, then its not about getting my way. someone told me to look past my childhood disappointments. everything i do in my life is my own problem, not anyone else's. even when i was growing up, i felt like i was always brain washed. i always had a tendacy to believe anything anyone else said cuz i felt they were right all the time. im lookin up free support groups i can go 2, its time for me to make a change about myself!
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Re: shyness prob what can i do to improve myself?
Sun, January 6, 2008 - 12:31 AMHello all, I hope your holy days were awesome, Marquis, I asked a lot of questions to which no answers were applied. I will take that to mean you are not interested in healing and growing, and I will let it go. BLessings and I wish you well.
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Re: shyness prob what can i do to improve myself?
Sat, January 12, 2008 - 9:56 PMi answered ur questions! besides, i have not been online on this site that much so u cant sit here and assume i am not interested in healing and stuff. what else do u want me to answer? i have gave u all the answers i can give, besides i wanted info on healing and stuff, but going out there and actually doing it cost money which i do not have. so, i just want info about it.
but fine, u dont wanna give me any info oh well. i do know how to search for native american healing ways, that is not hard to do and i can also go to borders and look it up or join a native american group and ask them. dont be mad at me cuz i dont come on here that much, i do have a life and i have been spending my time not being on the comp that much and hanging out with my fiance.
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Re: shyness prob what can i do to improve myself?
Wed, January 16, 2008 - 2:41 PMMarquis, there are a lot of questions to my Dec post to you that were never answered, those are the questions I referred to. I just didn't want to intrude and push you. Let me know if I can be of further assistance and many blessings to you...Spirit Wolf
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