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Catalyst to Change (a good thing).

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On the eve of a midterm election, one that my wife and I as average American citizens must admit to being of more importance than past elections, I must say, even with rising tensions, I see good things. The, "good" as I mention is not in how we traditionally, see, "good" or pleasurable, but "good" like heat to cow's milk makes the cream rise to the top. When things that are good, bad, indifferent, or effective, ineffective, or merely existing, they can sit, stagnant, never forced to grow, never encouraged to bring about strengths. As a therapist to war veterans, I find it fascinating that many of our nation's toughest struggle with daily life. They receive the diagnosis of PTSD, and take medications, or use some other method to "manage" themselves because war experiences have forever altered their mind, making them a, less-valuable commodity in the job market, if they are able to get a job at all. After all, when a business in Americ...

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"So then you are choosing to suffer?" "No, I am not choosing to suffer, but I do suffer." "Well, that is a choice is it not? Suffering is about how we interpret, through choice, our environment and the circumstances instances we experience." "I guess" "So then, the suffering you experience is based on choice." "Maybe..." Double-click for suffering.  On an unexpectedly warm autumn day, the air conditioning inside my office is particularly frigid, thus the interaction between extreme heat and extreme cool condenses on any surface flexible with the temperature, my client looks at me with a blank stare. "So, how's your week been?" "Good." He does this. He comes to see me, yet, refuses to willingly give up information. Sometimes I feel like some kind of private investigator, having to snoop around the obvious to get client to subconsciously tell me something to grab on to. "Yea, t...