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How Speaking In Catastrophic Language Harms Our Mental Health

How Speaking In Catastrophic Language Harms Our Mental Health

 “Today was the worst day EVER!”

Was it really? The absolute worst day you’ve ever experienced in your whole entire life? No day has ever been worse than this one?

“I have the WORST headache!”

The worst? So bad it’s not preventing you from staring at your glaring phone screen and lamenting about it online instead of treating your headache and resting your eyes?

“Life is NEVERgoing to…

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#MondayBlogs - A Cult Memory

#MondayBlogs – A Cult Memory

Growing up in Sam Fife’s Move of God cult, reading material on the Delta Junction, Alaska, compound was very censored. Magazines had pages, pictures and sections removed, all deemed by the cult leaders to be “bad for our minds.”

One girl managed to sneak in The Chronicles of Narnia, The Borrowers and Stuart Little, which she let me borrow, quickly read and give back to her with the promise I…

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Quiet Compulsions

I have a compulsion that I’m going to reveal.  It’s something that naturally happens in my mind.  It doesn’t stress me out, particularly.  I do it in seconds. I do it every day, all day long.  It doesn’t interfere with my life, as I see it, mainly because I can do it so quickly and as of now, I don’t search out the formula just so I can do if.  However, when the formula arrives it is definitely…

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The Alaska State Worker - Cult Child excerpt

The Alaska State Worker – Cult Child excerpt

                Mama is cheerful the next morning, and being extra nice to us.  She gets up early to cook eggs and fried potatoes in the cabin for us for breakfast. She helps us brush our hair, and tells us how good we look. The morning drags by as we sit around waiting for the Alaska state worker to come to the cabin. At one o’clock, she arrives, escorted by Brother Rocco. He leaves her at our…

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