We’re starting off with building up positive memories. My first round was building up a ‘safe space’ which is a place that I have a positive memory of so if I start getting distressed with negative experiences I just think of that space. It sounded kind of silly to me but it works pretty well, I seem to chill out really fast. Next up is round two, this will be working with an experience that is negative but low on the distress scale for me. I’m so glad to be taking baby steps into this, I can see how it could get intense real quick otherwise.
Banana06's Life List
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1. move to a new city
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2. Become a human rights worker
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3. Go back to Al Anon
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4. get my BA
2 entries . 1 cheer85 people -
5. Try EMDR and see if it works
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6. Go to Rwanda
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7. get my tattoo
1 entry . 1 cheer143 people -
8. save up for a trip
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9. Go back to Thailand
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10. gain weight and get buff
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11. find a better medication for chronic pain
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12. wear the color red out of the house
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13. Visit Africa
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14. learn Thai
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15. be a wine connoisseur
1 entry129 people -
16. get a dog
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17. Go surfing again
1 entry28 people -
18. go on a forest meditation retreat
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19. Join the Peace Corps
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20. become multilingual
1 cheer161 people -
21. speak another language fluently
1 cheer420 people -
22. Go back to Colombia
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23. Go back to Spain
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24. get ferrets legal in california
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25. Take more pictures
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26. Do what makes me happy and not what others want/expect me to do
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27. learn the tango
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28. Be an extra in a movie
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29. Drive across the USA
1 entry . 1 cheer2,164 people -
30. Read all the books in my "must read" pile
1 entry . 1 cheer1,104 people -
31. stop procrastinating
1 entry26,936 people -
32. Become a pirate
1 cheer479 people -
33. Make a wedding cake for someone
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34. own a used bookstore
1 cheer54 people -
35. have a very big library in my house
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36. Keep in Better Contact With the Friends I Have and Make New Friends
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37. do more arts and crafts
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38. make a div layout for myspace
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39. Adopt a baby
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40. improve my handwriting
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41. develop and practice a pleasant handwriting style for letters and a written journal
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42. write a memoir
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