Link Me Up, Scotty - Self Acceptance Edition

Wednesday, April 23, 2014
From Confessions of a Funeral Director, an analysis of why deep grief never really heals. Quoted for truth.
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Why you shouldn't park in front of fire hydrants. Because my BFF Karma is on the job, and she'll bitch slap your shiny new BMW as an object lesson in the social contract, that's why.
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Jenny McCarthy is now claiming that SHE's not anti-vax! Oh, no! She's just misunderstood! My pasty white ass, you cretinous imbecile.
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John Scalzi on how we're all subject to the conditioning of our society and family. The crux is whether or not you can be honest with yourself about it and work towards a better you.
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Video of the week: Women's reactions to being photoshopped into looking like a magazine model. Word. I may be fighting a holding action against gravity, but I see the point - I don't want to look perfect, or like I'm 20 again. I want to look like the best 48 year old me I can.


3 comments:

Anne C. said...

I thought it was interesting that the Kubler Ross process (which I have always recognized relates most specifically to the dying and then less accurately to other scenarios) end point of "acceptance" is interpreted as "healing." Perhaps because my basic understanding of the KR process is that the endpoint is actually death, or because there are many things in my life I've had to accept that are not healing or right. Anyway, it had never occurred to me to make those associations between the KR process and what you are going through. (Also, Freud is a hack. But that's my biases showing. I also have biases based on the fact that my mum volunteered for Hospice for a while... )
In related news, I think of you often and am with you in spirit. Much love and great big hugs.

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Random Michelle K said...

I do so LOVE that picture of the asshole parked in front of the fire hydrant. And it also made me immediately think of "Backdraft."

If I'm remembering correctly, Elizabeth Kubler Ross' stages of acceptable were the stages one went through to achieve a "good death." (As Anne said, it has much to do with the modern hospice movement, which is a good thing.)

How those stages could be applied to grieving is something that is beyond me.