Okay, so I even changed the font color to reflect my good mood of the evening...you should note this one on your calendar. For all of you bloggers out there, you should check out the article in the June '08 issue of Newsweek on page 13 that says "My Shrink says...BLOG!" It states that a blog is like medicine and psychiatrists are starting to tout the therapeutic power of blogging, and many have begun incorporating it into patient treatment. There is even a study going on that suggests "bloggers" might be happier than "nonbloggers." So there! haha. It really goes back to the old idea of journalling, which therapists were taught in school is a great homework assignment for our clients to get their thoughts, worries and anger onto paper and out of their heads. They say that the anonymity of blogging actually helps because it is high intimacy with low vulnerability. One has to be careful to not reveal too much because that can "cause shame or guilt" so they recommend leaving a little to the "imagination." The article was fascinating and I was delighted that Connie passed it on. Connie, coming from a newspaper background should be the one blogging for sure!!!Contentment is defined as the experience of satisfaction and being at ease in one's situation. I don't seem to have a lot of that on these busy days, but when I do, I want to absorb them, take them in, swish them around and enjoy them.
It was over 100 degrees in our city today, not usually a day for contentment....but it gave me a reason to be grateful for air conditioning, iced tea, cotton that is soft to the skin, fireflies late at night and the sound of sprinklers going after dark. I had to make phone calls to remind clients to come see me tomorrow, not usually a job I enjoy but tonight I was able to calm a mother whose son went into detention this morning, say "I understand" to two different parents when I really did not, but did my best to try to when they were critical of things that were really about their lives and not mine, made contact with some that can't wait to see me tomorrow....what a great feeling.
Spent today making some successful wedding plans with Mary Beth and even long distance with Rachel....content that we have cell phones, texting and email to feel that we can have a bond that my parents could never have dreamed of thirty years ago. Contentment came in the form of inviting a friend to help me out with a "project" on Friday, that is crazy and unpredictable, but she jumped at the chance and made my day a little easier by saying she would help me out. (the contentment comes from just having one of those kind of friends)
Contentment is getting phone calls from all three of my kids today just to talk and check in with what is going on in their lives....just because they want me to know. And heaven knows I do.
Contentment comes from being able to take that deep breath and hoping that I have another one of these days again soon. Very soon.
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