Median Center for Resilience and Brain Training

09/01/2023

04/30/2023

Nice mix of self revelation and an attempt at a solution to a problem that’s hiding in plain sight. Even as I post this to an aspect of the problem itself.🤔

I have a plan to rebuild social connection and foster healthy relationships.

09/30/2022

BEST QUOTE EVER!! ( at least until my next book...but still....)

“Don’t compare me to the Almighty. Compare me to the alternative.”
(quote from Joe Biden's Dad)*

*As an analyst of relationships and systems, I have to say the above quote could apply to the projections and resulting disappointment taking place in MOST relationships 🥲or 😂

09/27/2022

Bingo!!
"... "When we looked at the core issue of these calls — mental health — we realized that a law enforcement response may not be the appropriate one for the given situation,” said Lt. William Dooley, public information officer for the Fresno Police Department. “Why should we use force, possibly injuring the person and our officers, when all we want to do is get them help?”..."

Amid police killings of suicidal civilians, a growing number of agencies are telling officers that sometimes they should leave, not intervene, on su***de calls.

09/21/2022

Yes!

"It's madness
to hate all roses
because you got scratched
with one thorn,

to give up all dreams
because one of them
didn't come true,

to give up all attempts
because one of them failed.

It's folly to condemn
all your friends
because one has betrayed you,

to no longer believe in love
just because someone
was unfaithful
or didn't love you back,

to throw away
all your chances to be happy
because something went wrong.

There will always
be another opportunity,
another friend,
another love,
a new strength.

For every end,
there is always
a new beginning.

And now here is my secret,
a very simple secret:
It is only with the heart
that one can see rightly;
what is essential,
is invisible to the eye."

🌹 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Little Prince, 1943

01/03/2022

To all you therapy skeptics, you on-the-fencers, and you true believers alike: Join us as we knuckle-drag our way on this fifteen-step tour across the therapeutic landscape.

11/23/2021

Well-said!

The British singer's transformation is a reminder that women are still locked in the beauty myth.

10/01/2021

https://www.newyorker.com

A Senate committee hearing will address whether Facebook is following the example of Big To***co.

10/01/2021

If the shoes fit... Wear them PROUDLY!!

09/02/2021

The Brain so far outperforms our conscious awareness of it's ability.
"Perhaps researchers should now be finding examples to demonstrate how people can achieve what is thought to be unachievable, rather than focusing on theorising disability. If we can manage this, we may well further our understanding of what the human imagination is truly capable of – instead of having a poor idea of its limitations."

Turkish painter Esref Armagan uses colour and perspective that he has never seen.

06/18/2021

AMAZING film only available to watch until Sunday at Midnight. IMHO EVERBODY should see it. Should be called "Wisdom of Love"

Watch The Wisdom of Trauma Movie Premiere on June 8-14, Featuring DR. GABOR MATÉ Plus a 7-day teaching series on trauma with leading experts!

05/04/2021

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04/06/2021

One of the few silver linings of this surreal year has been the space to create a long-germinating Course (to be offered online and in-person once it is safe) that addresses the needs of big-hearted people in the ‘helping’ professions. In my 35 years of therapy and coaching people who are in service-to-other-professions (therapists, ministers, teachers, medical professionals, activists), I see a level of burn-out, exhaustion and resentment that not only affects the health and and personal life of the givers, but also forces them to think they have to make a choice between the two. Through years of working with clients in exactly this situation, I believe there IS a way to have a balance and would like to reach a larger audience with my teachings.

The working title of my course is:

“Overcoming Over-Giving”- Finally learn to balance your giving spirit with giving to yourself, so you can have the energy, time and renewed love in your heart for what truly matters to you.

Stay tuned for more details, and in the meantime, if you, or anybody would like to be on my mailing list for more information when it becomes available, please drop me a line at marilynfinchwilliams@gmail.com.

11/08/2020

Worth considering...(until we actually evolve to be robots) the human brain is IMPROVED by actual connection... Voice more than physical obviously in the time of COVID.

We all have a lot of feelings right now. It's better for your soul if you call your friends instead of texting them, study says.

10/28/2020

As we approach a pivotal moment in our nation’s history, it is important to remember moments of empathy and compassion. Filmed at Bing Concert Hall, Kronos Q...

10/24/2020

"... Franz Marc died a young man, shrapnel in his brain.
I would rather die than explain to the blue horses
what war is...
Maybe our world will grow kinder eventually. / Maybe the desire to make something beautiful / is the piece of God that is inside each of us... "

Franz Marc's Blue Horses by Mary Oliver I step into the painting of the four blue horses. I am not even surprised that I can do this. One of the horses walks toward me. His blue nose noses me...

10/23/2020

Take what you can use and leave the rest

Bisexual sober writer Tawny Lara writes about politics: “My sobriety and my political activism now seem inextricably linked.”