Happy birthday Button!
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Aw, Happy Bday Buttons. She doesn’t look a day over 2 and is 100% good girl.
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Happy Birthday!
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Just wanted to let you know- Im heading to my appointment in about an hour.
I’m so happy to see her again. She’s really an amazing woman. Just a guess, but I think you’d really like her. Very smart, dedicated, and helps me focus and reframe and process things in ways that are very helpful.
So there’s that. I hope your day is a great one.
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Thursday, February 13
Weight 154.4
Iron day 23/30 - glutes and hamstrings - 10 minutes cardio warmup.
Felt great. My alarm didn’t go off for the second day in a row today, so I overslept again, but I was planning to work remotely, so went ahead with the workout and just rushed after. I feel like my perfect workout schedule is all screwed up and I’m stressed about that (I leave for St. John on my last day of work on the 26th and want the program done by then so I can enjoy a deload/refeed (please pretend with me that this is called for, since it’s happening regardless), but we have company this weekend and I work out in the living room and have just taken three days off. Also, this means I have to work out on every work day this week, and I am at this point so stressed and overwhelmed with closing up the old job and setting up the new that I basically stand around wringing my hands in confusion, which is not helpful.
However, insurance credentialing is moving along pretty quickly and I have patients scheduled for the week of March 17th. So far I have 29 patients coming with me and there will be at least a couple more. I take possession of my new office on March 1.
@SkyzykS I’m so glad! I love hearing that people love their therapists - it’s such a magical relationship when it works. I have a feeling you’ve already told her, but if not, do. It makes the hard days better to have it tucked away that you helped.
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I have. I’m not great with expressing things like that, but I do my best.
And her new baby is absolutely adorable. Little baby burrito all swaddled up and happy. 
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Not sure we are over the reading list, but at the risk of being forward, I have had two therapists. One was meh (court ordered), and the other changed my life.
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I’ve had two now from within the same practice. The first was the owner, now retired. The second is a woman that has good credentials and stuff in the areas I need help with. They’re both awesome.
The previous one, unbeknownst to me, also had my next older brother as a client for quite a while. My brother also thinks very highly of him. It was funny when all the pieces clicked into place and we (brothers) both arrived at the same guy for the same reasons.
I have only ever had female counselors. The first was an alcohol counselor as required by court, and she just mailed it in and took my money and billed my insurance.
Take it back, I had another female counselor before her and she fired me, rightfully so - I wasn’t committed.
My most recent was an IFS Buddhist and Transcendental Meditation woman, Jewish, and she was awesome, changed my life.
But, as you well know, I was ready to be changed by that point.
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Yeah, one thing the first one conveyed to me is that I have to let the therapy work, and if we hit any roadblocks to let him know so that we can go in a different direction.
I’ve read or heard that it’s the relationship that heals, not the therapeutic orientation (CBT, IFS) of the therapist.
We assume that the clinician has had enough education, training, and supervised practice to be allowed to sit for the 6 hour licensing exam, and if licensed, passed it. We further assume that the clinician is keeping his or her license in good standing by accruing 24 hours of continuing education every two years. After that, though, it’s “goodness of fit.” For me as a patient that has meant being bright and funny, and most importantly able to challenge my thinking, which tends to be very persuasive, so I’ve had trouble with therapists who just agree with me because I’m smart, and also very open to accountability. I’m already looking for where I’m the one who’s tanking the marriage or could do better, so when I present my issues the other people are inclined to just nod along. I need someone to offer some variation on “Seriously? LOL!” and give an alternate view, because I get lost in my head.
We all need different things. I’m maternal with some of my patients, allow my street kid out to play with others, and am my most bookish smart girl with still others. Some I’m exceptionally warm and self-disclosing with, others need me to be more of an authority, so reserved and very clinical. Which is perfect, because all of those are me.
I’m rambling, and hear my company walking around overhead. I’ve figured out my workout schedule dilemma and will post about that after I work out. In the living room. With company. Fuck it.
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Friday, February 14
Iron day 25/30 - shoulders - 15 minute/1 mile cardio warmup. It felt really good, and I was mesmerized by my tibialis anterior, which is getting really developed. I was doing shoulders, but was flexing and admiring it between sets, lol.
I figured out my schedule. I decided to skip the full body workout that should have been tomorrow, with today a rest day, and go into next week’s string of four workouts, but I’ll take a break before doing glutes and hammies, which I hit yesterday. That will allow me to have a rest day when more people are here Monday morning, then get right back on track Tuesday. Then I’ll do the full body when I have time before the trip, maybe a couple of them, depending.
(I recognize no one cares, just thinking aloud, such as it were.)
Man, I feel good.
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Good!
Glad you could get it done, even with house guests. 
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They do though. Figuring out how to fit in lifts around out of the norm life stuff is half of this hobby!
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Saturday, February 15
Iron day 26/30 - legs - 10 minute cardio warmup.
2 mile walk on a snowmobile trail.
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Sunday, February 16
Weight 155.5 maybe
Iron day 27/30 - upper body - 15 minute/1 mile cardio warmup. This one was hard, but I’m definitely seeing progress, so all’s well that ends well, I suppose.
We’re having a winter storm today, as we did Thursday and a week ago. It’s piling up! @ChickenLittle, when you’re feeling desperate about how hot it is in a couple of months, remember that this is the alternative! (Though I like it okay.)
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Wednesday, February 19
Iron day 28/30 - glutes - 15 minute/1 mile cardio warmup.
Punching the clock. I have a cold and anxiety over work stuff is messing with my sleep.
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Saturday, Feb 22
Weight 155.1
Iron day 29/30 - full body - 10 minutes cardio warmup. Was able to increase weights, though I struggled with dizziness.
I leave for St. John on Wednesday, work Tuesday and Wednesday and am still sick. I lost my voice Thursday, my second-to-last day seeing patients. It sucked. I blew off working out yesterday in favor of two long naps, the second of which I took all dressed and ready to go out to run errands and have dinner out, which didn’t happen. Slept well last night for the first time in a bit, with the help of sudafed and advil.
There’s an upper body workout scheduled for Monday (rest day tomorrow) and I’m conflicted. Another full body before I leave for vacation may make more sense. But on the other hand it’s the last day of the program, and one likes to finish what one has begun. We’ll see.
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Funny enough, I have the opposite thought process every time I get to the final workout of a program: “I’ve already done everything else: this workout doesn’t matter”, and, quite often, I end up skipping it. Unless it’s a workout that is the culmination of all the work, like Mass Made Simple, Super Squats, or Deep Water, it’s hard to get motivated for the workout that DOESN’T build to the rest of the program.
Speaking of rest (of the program), rest up and enjoy that vacation!
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Ha, I actually blew it off altogether! There’s just been too much to do - calling it a reload and starting it now. When I get home next Monday I’ll take it back up with enthusiasm.
Meanwhile, trying on summer clothes preparatory to packing, I was really pleased. I do need to lose 10 lbs, but I’m feeling strong and think I’m looking pretty good.
Super excited about my new office and the respectably full schedule taking shape.
And maybe most excited about the two weeks off after I get back from St John and before I start seeing patients in the new place.
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