Nala

Hello All, I'n excited to announce that I've accepted a job in Northern New Jersey with a fabulous company in the field of holistic nutrition. After a year of searching for the best opportunities, I'm very excited to announce this! This post is to pursue my immediate goal which is to find a room to rent so I can begin working asap. Is there an FDR member in the vicinity of 15 miles of Bergen County, New Jersey interested in a roommate/housemate? Thanks for your time and interest!

Being a female myself, I can attest to fact that "gauging her intelligence" is going to rub her the wrong way. Not good when you want to get close enough to rub at all. This whole dating thing can be really scary but I think you might want to make sure she's not seeing anyone before you chart her movements. And I don't mean for that to sound harsh. I just think complements, invitations, support, and motivation are the things that make us feel happy and good about the people we spend time with. Be that connected with your true joy and the right ones will seek you out.

Thank you for sharing this story. Your sons actions are direct reflections of your parenting. I'd like to congratulate you! I wanted to ask your opinion on an aspect of child care that I have struggled with on my last Nannying jobs. I am an On Call Nanny which grants me the privilege of interacting with a variety of families and meeting a lot of beautiful little people. When I am with the 2-5 year olds, I feel pressure from parents to use physical force in controlling their little bodies from running too far away in their yard, not staying "on-task", interrupting conversations with tugging and yelling, etc... I livw in a highly concentrated area of conventional medical professionals and state workers who believe virtue exists in the claimed authority of parenthood releasing them from all forms of judgement on their parenting of course. Since I work from an agency, I represent a group of people who will do whatever it takes to make their customer happy. When I disagree with a parenting style, I miss out on the money and experience due to my choice not to work for such family. So, I wonder what you do to express the respect for the child while instilling trust in the parent that I am not irresponsible, unassertive or neglectful?

The work an actor is exposed to can lead to a wavering of integrity around their recovery from addictions. PSH was a very talented man which also indicates that he is quite sensitive to the needs of others. Art is an expression of the unconscious and can be very dangerous in my opinion. It's my hypothesis that Philip Semour Hoffman was drawn to a particular type of work that appealed to his addictive nature and dragged him out of sobriety right by the ear. There must have been a tremendous threat to his self-confidence during one of his most recent works to have motivated him to these actions. I am very interested in finding out what he had been working on before he died.

Where do most of the members live? I want to get out of Virginia. It's a black hole of statists and mystics.

I noticed the same right away. I felt the shields of armor arise over the ghosts of their aggressors.

Hi Ivan, I want to thank you for your contribution to the show. Your call helped me to remember that we have to be committed to truly expressing our feelings in order to keep up our relationship with ourselves. I realize how fear of abandonment stays with me even after many times of asserting myself to those who have hurt me. I think it's very difficult with a history of violence to determine when we are "allowed" to be angry when our bodies have been so violated in the passed. I think everyone has been angry before. Right? But, how often are we certain of the origin of that anger? And, how often are we making the connections of it's origin and the consequences of it? Consequences of repressed anger can come out in many many forms but when the origin of the anger is realized and we connect our behavior or string of behaviors to it, we can start to make changes in how we react to the treatment of others.

This is a dream I had last night after self-examination. I have the goal of attending school to study psychology this summer. I have been addressing my thoughts and feelings related to why I am disinterested in building my business. Insights I found in this dream were related to why I feel intimidated by education and success. My goal with dreams like these is to be more clear about what I have to do to change my life and I'm sharing this dream to invite others to examine how we see ourselves in certain dreams. I'd like to discover what triggers weakness, smallness and frantic survival mechanisms as my interests expand so I can avoid self-sabotage Intro: From the start of this dream, I felt the fear I used to have entering and walking the halls of my elementary school during grades 3-5. Important Names: LENOX was the name of my school during that time. JAMIE was the name of a girl who lived across the street from me from the time I was born up until 4th grade. She was my age, light-haired and younger than her sister Danielle who was brunette. They used to come and play at my house with me (brunette, younger) and my sister (blonde, older) on weekends when we were staying with our father. We would be outside for a very long time. I would become bored easily as I was the smallest, weakest and slowest of us all. I would get very tired and upset when I couldn't catch any of them in TAG.My family complained that I whined all the time. DREAM: JAMIE was in the basement of a house sitting on a "Starbucks" recliner chair. She was vaguely focused on something off in the distance. I was a cross between a child and an adult- not a teenager though. I started talking to her but our convo was muted. She said "I'm waiting for Jamie". I pretended to know who Jamie was and she said "No, you don't know this Jamie". The basement was filled with students, teachers, and even some parents. I noticed a particularly familiar gentleman- overweight reading the paper in another "Starbucks" chair. He seemed to be waiting while eyeing me in annoyance. It was eerie. I felt danger, excitement, doom, anticipation, and a nonsensical calm reminiscent of short story The Lottery http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lottery . I did't know what we were supposed to be waiting for but I imagined perhaps there was an attack of zombies about to occur and people were counting down. I started to realize that maybe all the students were told they had to "prepare" for this somehow. I wasn't prepared most likely because I had known my mother to disregard any written correspondence from my school and to ignore my homework assignments. I didn't know how to prepare so when I realized everyone had pens and other materials- it dawned on me that we were definitely going to have a test. I didn't know on what. I was approached by a teacher I had known to be as sarcastic and dismissive as my family members. I expected her help during this crisis which was an ill assessment considering she ordered me outside where the zombies were going to be to get my backpack I had left out in the yard. A girl named Jessica Hamway from LENOX, who stood 4 feet tall for as long as I had known her, was in the doorway as I exited the basement through the garage. She gave me a hard time about having to go outside so close to the attack. Suddenly, I was in the front yard with Daniel Plummer- a boy I had known across the street at my mother's house at the age of 7. I was outside in the dirt yard with Daniel getting our stuff when I he was much older than myself and I got the sense he was advancing at his studies while I was floundering. I went back into the basement to see that Jamie had a pen, everyone else had pens or pencils and I didn't. I looked around in a panic to discover any rogue writing implements and I did in fact find one. I pretended that I couldn't remember if it was mine or not. I asked publicly if someone had dropped their pen. I knew I had to give it away if someone else came forward but I did ask anyway as to avoid being accused of stealing. The teacher said to me that if I went outside to get supplies it wouldn't make a difference anyway. It seemed like she didn't care if I went outside. It seemed she didn't take the threat seriously anymore and said "Nobody's going to get you out there- it's not time yet." The dream ended. .

Are you interested in an open and honest discussion about your relationship to food? Are you tired of eating the same boring and unhealthy foods on a Defoo Budget? Hey, I'm Ashley. I'm also known as Nala on the boards. I defoo-ed in 2008 and began working in the grocery store world and began learning how to eat right for healing my acne and soothing my IBS. I became happier and healthier in a matter of months. In order to share my experiences, I gained my certification to be a Health Coach and now I'm developing my business. I'd love to coach you through easing the symptoms of your various physical and emotional ailments by way of adjusting your diet and discussing with you your health history. In return, I ask that you provide a $10 donation to FDR and payment to me of $20 per session. I'll spend an hour with you over Skype. We can even set up a conference call and get others in on the convo. Stefan's work changed my life by helping me see the power I have over my life. I want nothing more than to support this show in a way that allows it to flourish as it has for me. I am reachable at ashley.richardson5 and [email protected]. [pom-poms] Thanks so very much for your time. And I look forward to getting started!

My name is Ashley. I am a revisiting fan of Stefan Molyneux's work. I was highly active in the FDR community during my transition from an unhappy existance into a life of purpose. I have had direct conversations with Stefan and even got to meet him in 2009. During that time, I made much progress thanks to the information and opportunity for growth for which I am truly thankful for. I love the freedom of thinking for myself and enjoy the process of getting to my real feelings. I just graduated an Integrative Nutrition ceritification program and have come back to cultivate this aspect of my personality by engaging in the supportive community of self work after beginning to focus on my goals for my business.

What a helpful post! The advice is very appreciated!

[] Pretty please! It'll be an honor to do a couple for you Stef. Thanks for your support!

Hi Alan, Yes, it has been a long time since posting anything on the boards. Thanks for noticing me and remembering my story [] I took a long break. Have you been regularly on the boards?