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Heather Hanlin
May 15, 20245 min read
Statler and Waldorf are hotels!? Complexity of Culture.
My sister and I play a little game. One of us will text the other a couple of lines from a song and the other will respond with the...
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Heather Hanlin
Apr 18, 20244 min read
What really happened in April was not what I was worried would happen.
What happens is rarely what we think will happen. One thing I have noticed about worry is that the things I focus on to worry about are...
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Heather Hanlin
Apr 1, 20244 min read
Catatrophizing: Pranking Ourselves.
This is not an April Fool’s blog despite it being 4/1. I don’t have the current talent/focus to write a good April Fool’s blog. A good...
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Heather Hanlin
Mar 15, 20244 min read
That’s on Brand? (Part 3) The Internal Community
One of the things I love about the two models that I’m the most trained in, Natural Lifemanship (the horse therapy) and IFS (Internal...
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Heather Hanlin
Mar 8, 20244 min read
That’s on Brand? (Part 2): Public Performance
I spoke with my sister-in-law the other day. She has a lot on her plate, coordinating care for aging parents, launching young adults as...
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Heather Hanlin
Mar 1, 20244 min read
That's on Brand? (Part 1)
When I was in college my sister’s boyfriend at the time crashed his bike. He skinned his knee badly. Not knowing what to do he called...
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Heather Hanlin
Feb 15, 20244 min read
Phone Phobia is Real!
Phone phobia is real. I’ve been watching Dimension 20 and in an episode that I recently watched some of the characters are trying to...
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Heather Hanlin
Feb 1, 20244 min read
When to Let Go?
Monster or bag? My husband and I had just finished loading a bag of supplemental feed into the storage bin, and so we put the empty bag...
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Heather Hanlin
Jan 16, 20246 min read
Be Safe! But what is Safety anyway?
Safety is the goal for mental and physical health, but it is complicated. When we feel safe, we can relax. When we can relax others can...
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Heather Hanlin
Jan 1, 20245 min read
The Obligatory New Year’s Resolution Blog—or is it?
It’s time for a new start! I’ve written before about new year’s resolutions, but they come round every year (and different times a year...
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Heather Hanlin
Jul 16, 20234 min read
Bye Felicia, So long Charlie, What do you Meme?
Something is stuck in my head. I woke up this morning with an earworm in my head. Unfortunately, it is just a musical phrase and I can’t...
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Heather Hanlin
Jun 14, 20233 min read
Is This Mine?
I have a minor in dance, Flamenco dance specifically. So I spent a fair amount of time in Carlise gym, in classes or prepping for them. ...
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Heather Hanlin
Apr 13, 20234 min read
Why would I work with a neurodivergent therapist?
Doesn’t “neurodivergent” mean “socially awkward?” It can, but not all neurodivergent people are socially impaired. Some of them are...
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Heather Hanlin
Apr 1, 20237 min read
Picking a therapist and a therapy model for gifted people
There is a LOT of advice floating around out there (and here I am just adding to it!) Most of it is well meaning but it can be difficult...
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Heather Hanlin
Feb 28, 20233 min read
That’s Awesome!
“That’s awesome!” we tend to throw this term around with wild abandon. But have you ever paused to think about what the word “awesome”...
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Heather Hanlin
Jan 13, 20233 min read
Unmasking Social Thinking
I’m reading an old book in a new light. The old book is about Social Thinking. Socially Curious and Curiously Social by Michelle Garcia...
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Heather Hanlin
Dec 7, 20225 min read
Motivation, Procrastination, and being Gifted
Procrastination, what happened to my motivation? My last blog post was almost a year ago. I had been blogging at random intervals, based...
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Heather Hanlin
Jan 1, 20223 min read
Start the Year off Neurodivergent!
There is a social norm of setting a New Year’s resolution at the start of each year. I’ve seen statistics that state only about 10% of...
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Heather Hanlin
Oct 3, 20213 min read
What am I feeling anyway?
There is a term in the art world that describes a rich layering of light and dark to get a three-dimensional effect: chiaroscuro. It...
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Heather Hanlin
Feb 17, 20212 min read
A Note on Perfectionism
I had an idea in my head for my illustration of the Trauma Tree for my post on traumatic growth. Having taken a few photos of some...
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