Your Self Concept?

[StarSong]

@Warrigal: I love your blouse!!!

 

[Warrigal]

Thanks, @StarSong. I ordered it via the internet. It is a bit louder than the more muted photo in the catalogue, but I like it. Part of memory making is the photographs that will be looked at long after I am no longer around. Now is not the time for muted and drab. It is the time for the clothes to shout out that life is good, and that life is worth living even in the ninth decade and beyond.

 

[StarSong]

Thanks, @StarSong. I ordered it via the internet. It is a bit louder than the more muted photo in the catalogue, but I like it. Part of memory making is the photographs that will be looked at long after I am no longer around. Now is not the time for muted and drab. It is the time for the clothes to shout out that life is good, and that life is worth living even in the ninth decade and beyond.

I love your perspective!!!

 

[TabbyAnn]

yes well you know we both had similar abusive childhoods so I understand you...

I’m sorry you both had abusive childhoods and are plagued with the memories now. Are there any psychological techniques for replacing unpleasant thoughts from childhood with thoughts of more pleasant more recent experiences? Many people have traumatic experiences as adults and need help not reliving the experience through memories. I wonder what the psychology profession has developed to treat this?

 

[Nathan]

Your Self Concept?

I've gotten away from beating myself up over mistakes I've made in life, and now work at forgiving myself and viewing life as a learning process that few get through without failing.

 

[Timewise 60+]

I am blessed. I am happy with who I am. My primary focus is on my wife, adult kids and grandkids. Life is never perfect, and we all have setbacks. My wife and I have lost both our parents and I also lost my older sister. I have no family left other than my own kids and grandkids.

But life is good, and it is easy to be a good person at this point in my life. My life was sometimes very hard and other times it was good. I was blessed with loving parents, so that always helped me over the hard times. But in the end, life is good...

 

[Lewkat]

In the words of Neil Diamond, "I am, I said."

 

[hollydolly]

I’m sorry you both had abusive childhoods and are plagued with the memories now. Are there any psychological techniques for replacing unpleasant thoughts from childhood with thoughts of more pleasant more recent experiences? Many people have traumatic experiences as adults and need help not reliving the experience through memories. I wonder what the psychology profession has developed to treat this?

I wish I knew, I;d be first in line..