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Landmark Education Forum
Pam and I are participating in the Landmark Education Forum, and I need to share about the miracles it's creating for us. The link above will lead you to the company's website for more on the company itself. Here's some of my experience: I've dealt with depression all my life on and off. I've done psychotherapy, religion, arts, promiscuity, gluttony and other attempts over the years to deal with what I came to believe was a chemical imbalance, something I couldn't do anything about other than take Prozac and Wellbutrin.
Sure, the Forum is only a month old in our lives, but some of the changes in our life together feel quite profound and I expect will be lasting. I have to make this shorter than I want to right now, but the hadlines are these:
Improved fearless communication about the things that matter most to us (sex, money, family, the future); better control over my tendency to procrastinate, an increased interest in my appearance (people have stopped asking me at work 'why are YOU so dressed up today?'), more interest in dealing with my health, an easier time of managing my eating and an actual loss of more than 20 pounds, and... the successful stoppage of my Prozac and Wellbutrin.
Still "waiting for the shoe to drop" as Pam & I put it to each other, by which we mean we still fear that the work we did in the Forum will somehow evaporate when enough time passes. But, we continue to do good work with each other and with our lives. We continue to attend a weekly seminar and weekly conference calls with other Forum participants. The work itself is very rewarding, giving a sense of peeling away layers of crud from our beings... only to reveal someone who feels very familiar, very "us," but happier, more effective, and healthier.
Garrison Keillor is speaking on the radio, which means I gotta go. I welcome email and phone inquiries about my experience... as well as personal inquiries if you & I run into each other somewhere.
gk
Pam and I are participating in the Landmark Education Forum, and I need to share about the miracles it's creating for us. The link above will lead you to the company's website for more on the company itself. Here's some of my experience: I've dealt with depression all my life on and off. I've done psychotherapy, religion, arts, promiscuity, gluttony and other attempts over the years to deal with what I came to believe was a chemical imbalance, something I couldn't do anything about other than take Prozac and Wellbutrin.
Sure, the Forum is only a month old in our lives, but some of the changes in our life together feel quite profound and I expect will be lasting. I have to make this shorter than I want to right now, but the hadlines are these:
Improved fearless communication about the things that matter most to us (sex, money, family, the future); better control over my tendency to procrastinate, an increased interest in my appearance (people have stopped asking me at work 'why are YOU so dressed up today?'), more interest in dealing with my health, an easier time of managing my eating and an actual loss of more than 20 pounds, and... the successful stoppage of my Prozac and Wellbutrin.
Still "waiting for the shoe to drop" as Pam & I put it to each other, by which we mean we still fear that the work we did in the Forum will somehow evaporate when enough time passes. But, we continue to do good work with each other and with our lives. We continue to attend a weekly seminar and weekly conference calls with other Forum participants. The work itself is very rewarding, giving a sense of peeling away layers of crud from our beings... only to reveal someone who feels very familiar, very "us," but happier, more effective, and healthier.
Garrison Keillor is speaking on the radio, which means I gotta go. I welcome email and phone inquiries about my experience... as well as personal inquiries if you & I run into each other somewhere.
gk
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