Childhood Neglect and The High Cost of Trying to Be "Good Enough"
If you were neglected as a child, you may still be acting on a belief that if you could only be nice enough, your parents would have transformed into the loving, caring adults you needed. This coping mechanism helps many kids who had trauma to survive, but now that you're an adult, you may still be suppressing your real self in hopes you can make the people you date love you and stay with you. Has it worked? In this video I respond to a woman who keeps getting rejected, despite her best efforts to be helpful and "nice" to her partners.
The Best Part About People Telling You You’re Not Good Enough
You’re going to encounter some people in your life that suck. Maybe they’re good people, maybe they’re not. Maybe they’re always angry and judgmental, or maybe you caught them on a hard day. Maybe they just suck in that moment and you were an unfortunate bystander, or maybe they just permanently suck.
https://thoughtcatalog.com/kim-quindlen/2015/02/the-best-part-about-people-telling-you-youre-not-good-enough/
Video from Pubity at https://www.tiktok.com/@pubity
EVERY senior community needs an inoperable car with working radio in their parking lot. That way the senior can sit in it rocking out for the memories. For some that might be the only joy they have in life, especially if their families have taken them to senior communities or nursing homes and rarely, if ever, visit.
We think ALL HUD housing needs Solar. Just think of all the money they'd save the government!
Susan Auslander, age 89, Spearheaded a Solar-Energy Drive in Connecticut and it worked!
An octogenarian Hunter College alumna has spearheaded a successful drive to install solar panels throughout her Connecticut retirement community — and she’s just getting started.
(This was not for low income housing, but it could be.)
CLICK HERE TO READ WHAT SHE DID
Her Retirement Home Said ‘No’ to Solar Panels. She Got It to Buy 1,344.
In what seemed like a futile fight with her retirement community’s management, Susan Auslander, just shy of 90, found an opening.
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ABOUT WHAT Susan Auslander did
Things my mom did when she lived in MN before she came back home to Colorado (Click news article name to read more.)
Got a bus stop at the library
and
Marshall woman petitions to have bus stop at library
Helped turn ALL HUD housing into non-smoking
Another game-changer in the works to eliminate smoking
and
HUD SECRETARY CASTRO ANNOUNCES PUBLIC HOUSING TO BE SMOKE-FREE
New rule protects health and safety of residents, saves PHAs millions of dollars in preventable damage
Nov 30, 2016
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), HUD's national smoke-free policy will save public housing agencies $153 million every year in repairs and preventable fires, including $94 million in secondhand smoke-related health care, $43 million in renovation of smoking-permitted units, and $16
https://archives.hud.gov/news/2016/pr16-184.cfm#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20Centers%20for,smoking%2Dpermitted%20units%2C%20and%20%2416
(Just think of how much it would save our government to add solar to HUD/low income housing!)
How To Use The Internet To Pay For Your Dental Bills
This is how mom got the funds to finance some of her dental work 8 years ago
(THE LINKS THEY TALK ABOUT FOR MOM ARE NO LONGER VALID - THIS WAS FILMED 8 YEARS AGO)
This is mom's interview on a National podcast. She was also interviewed by NBC National News about the harassment and stalking she's endured in 1994. It's off-and-on to this day, December 13, 2023.
