https://padlet.com/jescandon1/xel6kk3vm9n2 Who I am? en-us 2018-10-23 00:52:49 UTC 2024-06-08 12:47:57 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Diskette.png jescandon1 https://padlet.com/jescandon1/xel6kk3vm9n2/wish/295744113   I am a 30 year old woman, who works for Pacific Oaks College in the Admissions department. I am the Admissions Coordinator, which many including staff and faculty confuse my position as a receptionist or a personal assistant. What I do in that department is beyond what both those titles entails.  
Who I am outside of work is a painter that is trying to get through the current disaster has happened to my family and I. August 3rd of this year forever changed my family's life, we lost our home due to house fire. I also lost my dog to that fire. I am working through this trauma each day through therapy.  Just taking a day at a time to recover from this tragedy. 
   Before the fire I was focusing on self-love and my self esteem. I was trying to focus on building on myself as a person. I felt at the time I did not have values. This was the first time in my life I was focusing on myself. I was also learning how not to be hard on myself. Everyday I was either listening to self-help books or searching self-help articles. Now looking back I must have had the intuitiveness to know something like this was going to happen.]]> 2018-10-23 00:58:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jescandon1/xel6kk3vm9n2/wish/295744113 jescandon1 https://padlet.com/jescandon1/xel6kk3vm9n2/wish/295750600 It's amazing the bond you can make with another species. To have this unconditional love for one another, that some look down upon. My dog was my best friend that taught me many life lessons. To live in the moment, unconditional love, and how to grieve. I am truly grateful of being his companion and family. Most days now I feel so lucky to have had a dog like him. ]]> 2018-10-23 01:26:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jescandon1/xel6kk3vm9n2/wish/295750600 jescandon1 https://padlet.com/jescandon1/xel6kk3vm9n2/wish/295750892 2018-10-23 01:27:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jescandon1/xel6kk3vm9n2/wish/295750892 jescandon1 https://padlet.com/jescandon1/xel6kk3vm9n2/wish/295751381 Psychology has been in my life indirectly and directly now in my most recent years of life. My mother has been therapy for most of my life. She was going to psychologist and therapist to work on her past childhood trauma with sexual abuse. My mother would bring home whatever she learn through therapy,to implement it at home. She would tell me that therapy was there to improve yourself as a person. That is what therapy or psychology meant to me as a child. It is the study and actions to improve yourself or your behavior.
 Now as an adult that suffered from the same cycle trauma as my mother with sexual abuse. What psychology means to me, is learning to work through trauma in a healthy way. To see a therapist or psychologist to get the tools to work through your coping mechanisms. As of right now if I did not have therapy before the house fire, I do not know if I would be here today writing this. ]]> 2018-10-23 01:29:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jescandon1/xel6kk3vm9n2/wish/295751381 jescandon1 https://padlet.com/jescandon1/xel6kk3vm9n2/wish/295784652 I had written out values I wanted, one was resilience, gratitude, and integrity. Theses were the values I was working on before the fire. The fire had all three take affect into my life. Gratitude has been something that get me through my day. This link was the first of many different links I read on gratitude. Everyday I am grateful for my life, all the opportunities I have experienced and the time I had with my dog. ]]> 2018-10-23 05:02:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jescandon1/xel6kk3vm9n2/wish/295784652 jescandon1 https://padlet.com/jescandon1/xel6kk3vm9n2/wish/295790433 I will be trying to work up the courage again to paint.]]> 2018-10-23 05:57:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jescandon1/xel6kk3vm9n2/wish/295790433 jescandon1 https://padlet.com/jescandon1/xel6kk3vm9n2/wish/295790611 2018-10-23 05:59:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jescandon1/xel6kk3vm9n2/wish/295790611 jescandon1 https://padlet.com/jescandon1/xel6kk3vm9n2/wish/295791556 2018-10-23 06:06:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jescandon1/xel6kk3vm9n2/wish/295791556