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I take care of two wonderful little girls in Loveland!

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I am most excited for WEEK 3 Topic and Discussion on "Contemporary Research findings influencing the view of the Mind-Body-Spirit and the Placebo Effect on Health

and Illness". I have always thought that our mind has the biggest hand in our health status, physically and mentally. We have an insanely complicated organ that runs our system, and though we've learned a great deal about it, we are still so far from fully understanding the brain.

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Here is my lovely boyfriend and I during a concert this summer!

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As a kid I didn’t know how to relate well to other kids, because I was so intensely emotional and didn’t know where to put that energy. I normally attracted people toward me for bullying because I had the reaction kids were looking for. One day I began drawing what I felt, to get it down on paper, even if it wasn’t good. I would use it to communicate to myself and other more than words I could speak verbally... because sometimes words didn’t work. I drew obsessively during class and at home, mainly because it distracted me from reality. I would write and draw so much my fingers would callus, tear skin and hurt. I kept my head down for most of my academic life, and I have thousands of drawings I have kept from then to now. I think if I didn’t go through that though, I wouldn’t have become so versed in a SECOND language that is drawing (:. At times I felt like I was falling down a hole no one saw. I didn’t understand what I know now. And I wish I could tell myself years ago, that someday it would make sense, and to hold on. That I didn’t need to escape this world and draw my own. I’m needed here too

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After reading into Psychoneuroimmunology, I had realized I had found the word for the field of study I'm most interested in! Deepak Pandey article defines the term as: "The recognition of the interdependence of the biological and psychological system and the connection it establishes with health and illness". I find it interesting that this field is only 80-or so years old! I have always wondered about the MIND-BODY connection because of how many times I have felt genuine 'strings' within myself at times.

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When I was younger, I remember crying over the first bed of flowers I planted myself. Fall was beginning, and the grow of Rocky Mountain Iriss’ were wilting and drying out. The deep loss I felt was overwhelming, I shook and asked the earth why it kills everything eventually. This realization had come early, and my mother explained to me what an empath is. She related empathic people to any other human with emotions, but with an imaginary anvil strapped to our backs. That heavy sense is our concern for friends, family, animals and the earth itself. Constantly wearing rose-colored glasses is a beautiful state to be in, but it can be a cage as well. While I all the positives of our circumstance like having rich friendships and altruism by nature, I am also burdened by the negatives that wash over everyone, but I have naturally weakened armor and I can easily feel lonely in my own world.