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Brain Health part 9: Male & Female Brains are Different

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After a little hiatus, I’m baaaaaack!! What better way to come back then with a post in my brain health series. Today I’ll be sharing what I’ve learned scientifically speaking of how male and female brains are different. Additionally, I might add some of my commentaries.

This and many of my brain health series are inspired by the research done by Dr. John Medina as presented in his book, Brain Rules.

I believe understanding how our brains work is useful in living a successful life, working a successful recovery program, and managing finances successfully. And that’s why I read and write about the marvelous human brain.

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Dealing with Triggers in New & Mature Recovery

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Today’s post is geared at recovery rather than a money topic. For many of you who follow me, you’ve learned that I write on an array of topics. These topics can include personal finance, inspiration, life hacks, recovery, and more.

Being a woman with 10 years of recovery and sobriety, I understand triggers fairly well. And while triggers can be very different for a new person in recovery versus a mature person in recovery, the common ground is that both experience them.

Let’s start by defining a trigger…

The Oxford language dictionary defines a trigger as

noun
a small device that releases a spring or catch and so sets off a mechanism, especially in order to fire a gun.
“he pulled the trigger of the shotgun”
verb
cause (an event or situation) to happen or exist.
“an allergy can be triggered by stress or overwork”
The latter is the more appropriate definition to which I’m discussing in this post.
A trigger in recovery is referred to as something that triggers a person to be tempted to use the substance (drugs, alcohol, porn, etc.) they are sober from. Additionally, triggers can be common for someone who’s suffered trauma and/or has Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). With trauma or PTSD it could be a situation, words spoken, or a person that triggers them back to a memory.

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The Cost of Starting & Growing a Garden

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Early this year I moved to a great little apartment in a fourplex behind a house. One of the best things about this unit is the lot. It’s in a rural burb not too far from the city. Additionally, we are sitting on a few acres so that means land for a garden and wood for building a compost pile.

I’ve often dreamt of having my own vegetable garden but for some reason when I had a house for 16 years, I never planted one.

Anyway, when my landlord gave me the green light to start a raised garden, I jumped on it. Let’s face it with the shutdown, becoming self-sustaining is not a bad idea!

Perhaps you are in the same boat as I so I would love to break down the costs and efforts in such a feat.

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I offer my Identificational Repentance to Anyone Who’s Suffered Racism

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Things are flared up in the United States and understandably so.

In this article, I’m going to do the only thing I know how to do and that is to repent to everyone who’s experienced the injustice of racism. I loathe injustice so much so that if I am reading a book at night that has injustice in it, I cannot go to sleep until it’s resolved.

Sleep is tough these days as the book of injustice is playing out before our eyes.

The killing of George Floyd is so incredibly sad. And in the aftermath, I’m hearing others tell their stories of racism. It seems there is no shortage of racism and while this country has made some progress since the days of slavery, we still have a very long way to go.

If you’ll stick with me on this one, my prayer is that this post will offer healing in some small way to those who’ve suffered…

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