FINDING MEANING...Connecting the dots...

[Greco]

"The Sociopath Next Door" Audiobook

bumping this thread and sharing information
during my research on Cluster B Personality disordered
people...knowledge = safety. Up next NPD...Narcissistic
Personality disorder

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[Greco]

An Interview with Jackson MacKenzie, Author of PSYCHOPATH FREE

Jackson MacKenzie is a gay man who is a survivor from narcissistic abuse. He wrote this book to share with others and was a tool for his healing. Excellent, validating information for others.

Greco

[Greco]

Justice For All Radio Show With Host Attorney George Yates & Guest Jackson Mackenzie

Heads up: "Becoming the Narcissist's Nightmare:..."by Shahida Arabi
is also one of my favorites.
She writes about her experience and is inclusive of all sexual
and gender orientations. She has a kindle audio book, and
hardcopy on Amazon.

My research indicates that the survivors of abusive
relationships are creating the real life knowledge of relationship
with narcissists, psychopaths and other personality disordered
people.

Often therapists, psychiatrists, psychologists may not be
knowledgeable unless they've experienced an abusive relationship
in their lives, and have then gone on to their own healing and
learning about these personality disorders from personal experience
and then the survivor literature.

That being said Hervey Clekey,MD wrote "The Mask of Sanity"now in
its fifth edition back in 1948. And the seminal work that is mentioned
in this interview, "Without Conscience"by Robert Hare, PhD, both
excellent, excellent books.

In seeking therapy for healing from an abusive relationship
with a narcissist, psychopath, you have a right to ensure that
the therapist is knowledgeable regarding these personality disorders.

this is a radio interview hence the commercials...but the interview
is a good one.No I am not conservative.

Jackson MacKenzie therapist was knowledgeable on this type of abuse.

Greco

[Greco]

From the Goulet Pens blog, and inspired by Medusa's new thread about fountain pens, paper...
it's all about expressing my thoughts, feelings, desires in writing...
my family loves receiving my letters and I love writing to each of them.

Greco

italics mine:

"The Goulet Pen

Simplicity- shutting off the computer and picking up a pen.
So I'm checking out Google Buzz trying to figure out how yet
another application is going to make my life easier. I have a
website, video blog, youtube channel, personal facebook, facebook
fanpage for my business, facebook page for my vlog, twitter
account, tweetdeck AND hootsuite (to manage my many update
channels), and multiple emails, which just increased when I
signed up for gmail to create my Google buzz account.

I'm just thinking how ridiculous it all is that I now am trying
to learn ANOTHER social media program to manage the multiple
programs that I use to manage my multiple social media outlets!!
And people wonder why I like writing with pens!!! They're just so
damn simple, unlike life online. On top of all that, I'm trying to now
figure out the best way to backup my personal and vlog video
footage...looking at a multi-drive RAID NAS, which apparently
DOESN'T work with Time Machine....and my Macbook doesn't
have eSata or Firewire so I need gigabit ethernet, which will
require a switch so I can share both computers since I still have
a PC desktop that I have to use but only for my printer which I
just refilled the black ink cartridge AGAIN, but it's not recognizing
it because Lexmark is the devil and programs their cartridges to
fail unless you pay for them with your firstborn child, and since I
just switched Quickbooks to my Mac and I'm no longer using my
desktop for anything but printing....and even though I'll have to
drop $400, I can't use the NAS for intermittent updates unless
I figure out some other program that will do it besides Time Machine
which will cost more money if it even works, and if I transfer large
amounts of data like video then I'll have to plug in directly to the NAS
to get a faster transfer speed..........
:headsmack: :unsure: :gaah: :hmm1: :bonk: :bawl: :huh: :wacko:

And people wonder why I think pens, paper, and ink are so simple?

Bottom line here people is that there comes a point when you can
overcomplicate simplicity. People ask me all the time how I'm able to
run an entire business selling nothing but pens, ink, and paper, which
is so passe to most people. But in an age where you have devices
like the iPhone with tens of thousands of applications that are all
designed to make life simpler or more convenient, we become
overwhelmed by all of the 'simplicity' being programmed for our
ever increasing number of electronic devices.

But writing is constant. Since cavepeople wrote in the sand with
sticks, the fundamentals of the art of writing has never changed.
You are still holding something in your hand and making squiggly
lines to get a feeling or idea across from yourself to another person.
When I write a letter to someone, I care about who they are, what
their name is, and what their world is all about. In the online world
there's just something lost in the translation that no number of
emoticons can fill. As we become more integrated online and more
detached from the physical world, the art of manuscript and
the physical correspondence of letters will become ever
more meaningful."

[Greco]

Gabrielle Roth - Power Wave Dance


Inner Wave Dance

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[Greco]

5Rhythms of Dance

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[Greco]

The power of introverts | Susan Cain


for those of us who are...

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[nina03]

Originally Posted by Greco

An Interview with Jackson MacKenzie, Author of PSYCHOPATH FREE

Jackson MacKenzie is a gay man who is a survivor from narcissistic abuse. He wrote this book to share with others and was a tool for his healing. Excellent, validating information for others.


Greco

Thank you for this resource, Greco. I looked up the book and found an entire website devoted to this issue by the same author. It's very helpful for the work I'm doing in my personal life. I especially found this article relevant to my experiences. Thanks again.

https://www.psychopathfree.com/artic...alization.241/

[Greco]

All About Love - Joni Mitchell Interview Compilation (Part 3)


parts 1 & 2 not found...


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[Greco]

Sex trafficking | Linda Smith | TEDxPortland

Published on Jul 7, 2015
"No girl wakes up and looks in the mirror
and says I want to be a prostitute."
Linda Smith is a saint and with relentless determination, professionalism
and poise she has dedicated her life to the issue of sex trafficking.
She literally saves lives and seeks justice for those who can't defend
themselves through policy change, awareness and activism.
To alter the course of human rights, we must change our
perception, language, laws and response in an effort to
stop this criminal offense.

Linda Smith is a leader in the global movement to end sex trafficking.
In 1998, while serving in Congress, Linda traveled to a notorious
brothel district in India where the hopeless faces of women and
children forced into prostitution compelled her to found
the Shared Hope International organization. Linda is the
primary author of From Congress to the Brothel and
Renting Lacy, co-author of The National Report on
Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking, and instrumental in
creating the DEMAND Report. Linda has testified before
Congress, presented at national and international
forums, and has been published in numerous news
outlets and journals. Linda served as a Washington
State legislator (1983-93) before being elected to Congress in 1994.

Greco

[Greco]

Human trafficking -- Stop the silence - Catalleya Storm | TEDxDayton

Catalleya Storm is a junior at Wright State University
studying political science and business management
and aspires to further study law and criminal justice.
A human-trafficking survivor, Catalleya focuses their
passion on abolishing human trafficking in their lifetime.
Catalleya is the founder and president of the student
organization Generation Freedom Makers to raise
awareness among Ohio's universities.
As a writer, philanthropist, survivor and abolitionist,
Catalleya strives to educate and inspire others to
create brighter present and future.

Greco

[Greco]

Sex Trafficking in the U.S.: Young Lives, Insane Profit - Yolanda Schlabach | TEDxWilmington

This talk is eye-opening and heart-breaking. Yolanda Schlabach
shows the reality of sex-trafficking in the State of Delaware, a
terribly unrecognized and under-prosecuted state of affairs. She
guides us through the process by which girls are trapped, and
eventually lose their independent identity.

Yolanda is a Registered Nurse. She earned a Bachelor’s Degree in
Organizational Leadership and Management from Regent University
in 2004 and graduated in 2014 from Liberty University with a
Master’s in Human Services & Counseling. Yolanda attended the
University of Maryland, earning a Certificate in Working with
Survivors of Violence, Trauma and Torture. Yolanda is a member o
f Delaware’s Human Trafficking Coordinating Council and Co-Chair
of the Victim Services Committee.
Yolanda has served as Executive Director of Zoë Ministries, Inc.
since 2012, when the organization received 501©3 status. For the
past few years, she has spent her time engaged in public awareness
and professional education to bring the reality of human trafficking
to the forefront in Delaware.

Greco