One other thing, PON, is that it took me quite a while to learn how STOP thinking of how I was going to respond to W while she was talking, venting, spewing, and just REALLY listen to what she was saying, 100% focused on her, and respond (if I responded) "naturally" ... its a learned skill, I think, requiring lots of practice and trial and error...I refer to things like that list I posted to you earlier quite often still to keep it front and center in my head.
In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. - Albert Camus
Uncertainty is the very condition which impels people to unfold their powers.-Eric Fromm
