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Family Day, 2020
In the converted farm house near Sebastopol, CA, I gather with the fellow therapists and families I work with for one of our quarterly family days.
On these days, people we've been working with, who've been living with us or visiting us from nearby, come to have a day of fellowship, company, and connection. Some people present skits or scenes they put together. Others read aloud. There's a mini-maze, and the front room of the house has been made into a gallery.
For some people, being with their families here is a triumph. For others, it's more tentative. But they know that when the day is over they will be in a safe place for a****sing everything that happened.
Much of the personal change that our residents have accomplished has come through journaling and connecting with others via portable electronic devices. It's helped them to have journals where they can write about upsetting things, and place that material someplace safe but distant.
A lot of the somatic improvements our residents experience comes from being able to set boundaries, being able to understand space in a constructive way. We were surprised at how crucial cyberspace - which is in a way noplace - was for that.
Requiring constant internet connectivity required constant power, so our converted farmhouse and land has many means for collecting power. The roof is solar-panelled, but sunlight up here isn't a constant. There's a small wind-farm on the hill, as well.
One of the energy collecting activities I most enjoy is playing soccer in the morning with residents and fellows. Since this is a high-impact sport, though, I spend an equal amount of time on a power-collecting elliptical. This isn't the extent of our exercise-to-electic devices, however; we also have treadmills. Walking turns out to be an excellent way to collect one's thoughts, and because of the rainy weather you can't always be sure you'll get outside. So we got the treadmills, which turn out to be enormously popular. Sometimes we even generate extra power, which we share with our neighbors.
Back in the early 2000s when I lived in Los Angeles, residential facilities that generated all their power were just a dream. But then, so was the idea of full recovery from attachment-based mood disorders. I'm glad we've come such a long way since then.
On these days, people we've been working with, who've been living with us or visiting us from nearby, come to have a day of fellowship, company, and connection. Some people present skits or scenes they put together. Others read aloud. There's a mini-maze, and the front room of the house has been made into a gallery.
For some people, being with their families here is a triumph. For others, it's more tentative. But they know that when the day is over they will be in a safe place for a****sing everything that happened.
Much of the personal change that our residents have accomplished has come through journaling and connecting with others via portable electronic devices. It's helped them to have journals where they can write about upsetting things, and place that material someplace safe but distant.
A lot of the somatic improvements our residents experience comes from being able to set boundaries, being able to understand space in a constructive way. We were surprised at how crucial cyberspace - which is in a way noplace - was for that.
Requiring constant internet connectivity required constant power, so our converted farmhouse and land has many means for collecting power. The roof is solar-panelled, but sunlight up here isn't a constant. There's a small wind-farm on the hill, as well.
One of the energy collecting activities I most enjoy is playing soccer in the morning with residents and fellows. Since this is a high-impact sport, though, I spend an equal amount of time on a power-collecting elliptical. This isn't the extent of our exercise-to-electic devices, however; we also have treadmills. Walking turns out to be an excellent way to collect one's thoughts, and because of the rainy weather you can't always be sure you'll get outside. So we got the treadmills, which turn out to be enormously popular. Sometimes we even generate extra power, which we share with our neighbors.
Back in the early 2000s when I lived in Los Angeles, residential facilities that generated all their power were just a dream. But then, so was the idea of full recovery from attachment-based mood disorders. I'm glad we've come such a long way since then.
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