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Mad About Schooling

Why do I feel like school visits are usually a waste of time, and mental health visits, too, or is it visiting in general that bothers me? What I will see and smell and hear and touch is only what you feel safe to show me. Your best professional face when you are in charge of your environment of yourself, and all is as it would best be in your safe and healthy presence. Yet what I need to see is how this place, these people, this teacher or therapist or mentor, or would-be agape lover, responds to my child's anger and fear, to my own anger about how they have and have not been treated in our past, to your own angers about your past, fears about life's future for yourself for your kids, for these other caregivers. How will you respond the 99th time my daughter shits on herself then laughs while you wipe her nasty stinky ass, berated by her own memories of past such humiliations? Hope you too might find humor in your dialectic co-arising therapeutic intent, your Positive Psychology presence in this moment of your empathy with her reverse-bipolar lack of sympathy for you. Just how good might it feel to give a smack on the ass of all angry-fearfilled, chronically stressed and sleep deprived, too-often critical-event PTSD co-victims of human life's unkind and in-humane culture and history? How do you think that choice would not hurt both of you, all of us, where you could choose to live fully in this loving moment of empathic Right-brained eco-consciousness, synergetic multisystemic practice with full-health optimization intent when and where most needed and neglected and abused. Abuse of your professional love and competent promise, reminds of angers about life's inhumane injustice, depressing fears of death's too soon peaceful resonance. Visiting schools for therapeutic Present life has little to reveal about where we PastAnger-FutureFear live 24/7.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2015




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