Dealing with emotional trauma is a matter for the experts, but there is so much of it around that we need to know something about it – even if it’s just enough to realize that a lack of knowledge can do more harm than good. This is especially true when dealing with childhood emotional trauma among sufferers who are still children.
Children’s Homes are filled with traumatised children. Even if they haven’t been abused, the very fact that they are there is a result of a traumatic life event. Sudden death of a primary care-giver is a huge factor in causing childhood emotional trauma. Even if the reasons are purely economic, being wrenched away from their family and their known environment into that lonely, unknown world, cannot escape causing them severe trauma. In too many cases, however, abuse or neglect was the cause of their being relocated.
The circumstances leading up to a child’s incarceration into an institution ensures that the child is already traumatized by the time admission takes place. From that moment on, there will be many circumstances to add to their trauma, not least, their sense of abandonment and loneliness. For them, childhood emotional trauma is already a reality that will shape their futures.
Childhood Emotional Trauma; Volunteers and Hosts.
Volunteers and hosts who visit children in institutions, or take them to their homes on a regular basis, should be aware that their own lack of training in childhood emotional trauma could very easily undo all the progress that the children’s therapists have made. For example, abused children do not see normal discipline from the same perspective as emotionally secure children do. Childhood emotional trauma changes a child’s perception of discipline and punishment. When you smack your child’s bottom, indignation is probably the only result. When you raise your hand to an abused child, even playfully, the moment your hand is raised, all trust disappears and immediate distress is triggered. No matter how much you reassure the child, that trust is gone – and the child is convinced that yet another adult has proved that adults cannot be trusted.
Another consequence of childhood emotional trauma is that these children often have a very low self-esteem. ‘Normal’ teasing may inadvertently trigger responses in them that take you by surprise. Careless use of words can cause immense damage to already-fragile self-esteems.
Childhood emotional trauma carries devastating consequences. My purpose is not to discourage volunteer activities. I URGE more people to get involved. You CAN have a HUGE positive influence. My purpose is to emphasise the need to understand the issue and to encourage more people to do one of the many short study courses offered in childhood emotional trauma before volunteering.
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Sunday, February 14, 2010
An Act Of Love: Healing Emotional Trauma.
Healing emotional trauma begins with understanding it. Emotional trauma is stress exploded beyond a person’s ability to process an extreme life experience or to cope with the occurrence. It can be caused by a number of triggers - the sudden loss of a loved one, a serious accident or injury, violence or continuous violent abuse, abuse in all its forms, prolonged neglect or an incident where extreme fear resulted from neglect, natural disasters, amongst others factors. Being a witness to such an occurrence, particularly where serious injury, fatalities or emotional suffering are involved, can also be a cause.
Healing emotional distress is an act of love. In my opinion, it should be done by someone with knowledge and expertise, with the active support of friends and loved ones who if not involved, could unintentionally exacerbate the condition. The expression “The road to hell is paved with good intentions” can be tragically true when unqualified do-gooders decide to ‘help.’ This is especially true in cases where childhood emotional trauma is involved.
Healing emotional distress is a team function.
There are a number of organizations and individuals qualified in the field of healing emotional distress - psychiatrists, psychologists and trained counsellors in various organizations and private practices are available. However, I feel that the person’s direct family or appointed friends should be involved in understanding the therapy involved. They form an important part of the team in healing emotional distress, as they are the ones who are close to the sufferer in everyday life situations. By understanding the process, they are able to offer support and encouragement. Most important in my mind is that they understand enough to not destroy all the progress being made by the patient and the professionals!
Healing emotional distress, or treatment, to be more accurate, usually takes the form of talk therapy, behaviour therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy, where one knowingly changes one’s thoughts and actions, and a systematic approach to desensitizing the factor that triggers the trauma – or reducing the intensity of the reaction to it.
I have read that more recent developments in healing emotional distress can include forms of psychotherapy and body therapies related to new brain science information, incorporating neurological stimuli. The technicalities of healing emotional distress are not the topic of my discourse here, but the need for it.
Emotional trauma is real and cruel. Healing emotional trauma is crucial to the sufferer’s well-being and potential in life – but it is also a way of preventing more emotional trauma to others, resulting from behavioural disorders of the sufferer. Supporting the healing process is an act of love. Don’t just hope that it’ll go away.
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Healing emotional distress is an act of love. In my opinion, it should be done by someone with knowledge and expertise, with the active support of friends and loved ones who if not involved, could unintentionally exacerbate the condition. The expression “The road to hell is paved with good intentions” can be tragically true when unqualified do-gooders decide to ‘help.’ This is especially true in cases where childhood emotional trauma is involved.
Healing emotional distress is a team function.
There are a number of organizations and individuals qualified in the field of healing emotional distress - psychiatrists, psychologists and trained counsellors in various organizations and private practices are available. However, I feel that the person’s direct family or appointed friends should be involved in understanding the therapy involved. They form an important part of the team in healing emotional distress, as they are the ones who are close to the sufferer in everyday life situations. By understanding the process, they are able to offer support and encouragement. Most important in my mind is that they understand enough to not destroy all the progress being made by the patient and the professionals!
Healing emotional distress, or treatment, to be more accurate, usually takes the form of talk therapy, behaviour therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy, where one knowingly changes one’s thoughts and actions, and a systematic approach to desensitizing the factor that triggers the trauma – or reducing the intensity of the reaction to it.
I have read that more recent developments in healing emotional distress can include forms of psychotherapy and body therapies related to new brain science information, incorporating neurological stimuli. The technicalities of healing emotional distress are not the topic of my discourse here, but the need for it.
Emotional trauma is real and cruel. Healing emotional trauma is crucial to the sufferer’s well-being and potential in life – but it is also a way of preventing more emotional trauma to others, resulting from behavioural disorders of the sufferer. Supporting the healing process is an act of love. Don’t just hope that it’ll go away.
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Emotional Trauma: A Personal Overview
Emotional trauma can be a very debilitating condition, all the more so because it is often overlooked by the sufferer’s friends, family and colleagues as simply a character flaw, which they expect the sufferer to overcome and just “pull himself or herself together.” Such an attitude exacerbates the condition with dire effects. Healing emotional trauma depends upon being able to recognize it in the first place and accepting it as a treatable condition.
Not only can emotional trauma be treated, but it must be treated – for the sake of the sufferer, as well as for the sake of those affected by his or her actions and attitudes as a result of the worsening condition. Left untreated, the psychological distress of the sufferer can lead to behavioural patterns that adversely affect those who are dependant upon him or her, thus possibly leading to emotional distress to them as well, becoming an unbreakable cycle.
We live in a traumatized world – and the greater the behavioural disorders are that result from it, the more our offspring will suffer emotion trauma stemming from ours, until it becomes the norm.
What Is Emotional Trauma?
Trauma is stress gone haywire; too much to cope with. It is an ongoing inability to deal with an extreme life event, stemming from a number of possible sources such as
natural disasters, war, violence, abuse, the sudden loss of someone upon whom we depend, an act by someone that destroys faith and trust, serious accidents, or loss of self worth in an inability to cope with a situation.
Abuse can include repeated acts of violence, rape or severe neglect. Sudden loss of someone upon whom one is dependant includes emotional dependency, like a sibling.
Emotional trauma may occur not only in a person suffering one of those causes, but in someone who has witnessed such an event.
Dealing with emotional trauma oneself – that is the sufferer – is too much to realistically expect. Sufferers need help to deal with emotional trauma, and when we recognize the condition in anyone, we have a moral and humane responsibility to assist that person in getting the help he or she requires.
Emotional trauma is a cruel affliction for anyone to suffer. By encouraging and helping such a person to receive treatment, we not only help the person to ease the suffering, but we are helping to establish that person to pursue a life where his or her potential can be fulfilled. In addition, we may well be helping others within the circle of the sufferer’s influence to avoid their own emotional trauma resulting from behavioural disorders of the sufferer.
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Not only can emotional trauma be treated, but it must be treated – for the sake of the sufferer, as well as for the sake of those affected by his or her actions and attitudes as a result of the worsening condition. Left untreated, the psychological distress of the sufferer can lead to behavioural patterns that adversely affect those who are dependant upon him or her, thus possibly leading to emotional distress to them as well, becoming an unbreakable cycle.
We live in a traumatized world – and the greater the behavioural disorders are that result from it, the more our offspring will suffer emotion trauma stemming from ours, until it becomes the norm.
What Is Emotional Trauma?
Trauma is stress gone haywire; too much to cope with. It is an ongoing inability to deal with an extreme life event, stemming from a number of possible sources such as
natural disasters, war, violence, abuse, the sudden loss of someone upon whom we depend, an act by someone that destroys faith and trust, serious accidents, or loss of self worth in an inability to cope with a situation.
Abuse can include repeated acts of violence, rape or severe neglect. Sudden loss of someone upon whom one is dependant includes emotional dependency, like a sibling.
Emotional trauma may occur not only in a person suffering one of those causes, but in someone who has witnessed such an event.
Dealing with emotional trauma oneself – that is the sufferer – is too much to realistically expect. Sufferers need help to deal with emotional trauma, and when we recognize the condition in anyone, we have a moral and humane responsibility to assist that person in getting the help he or she requires.
Emotional trauma is a cruel affliction for anyone to suffer. By encouraging and helping such a person to receive treatment, we not only help the person to ease the suffering, but we are helping to establish that person to pursue a life where his or her potential can be fulfilled. In addition, we may well be helping others within the circle of the sufferer’s influence to avoid their own emotional trauma resulting from behavioural disorders of the sufferer.
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A World Of Opportunity: Free Audio Books.
If you haven’t discovered the audio book yet, you could be losing out on a world of opportunity. Many of us love reading, but lament the time we don’t seem to have to do enough of it. The joy of reading has its own rewards, but there’s a great deal to be said for just listening as well.
Remember when you were a kid, how much you loved having a story read to you? You could just close your eyes, or gaze into the distance, and visualize a whole different world, accompanied by the soothing sound of someone’s voice?
Audio books are widely available from a number of sources, for purchase, for rent, and as downloads – but they do not have to be a major expense in your life. Free audio books are available, once again, from a number of sources.
With books, sometimes one prefers to purchase them new and to keep them at home for a number of people to read and to be able to read repeatedly. Other books, one buys on sale. Either way, one builds a home library. For avid readers, obtaining books from a public library may be a more convenient choice. The same applies to audio books. (There is probably an audio book library near you – perhaps even in a section of your regular library. Alternatively, there are audio book libraries online.)
Free Audio Books – Where To Find Them:
If you already belong to a library, that would be a good place to start your search for free audio books.
Alternatively, there are a number of sites online where you can download free audio books – just doing a Google search will probably reveal more than you expected.
One of the organizations well worth a mention is LibriVox. They provide free audio books from the public domain. Volunteers record books in the public domain and publish the files onto the internet, where you can download them. Their goal is to record all books in the public domain.
Type “free audio book” into your Google – or other – search bar and a great number of sites will be listed. Some of them are dedicated to free audio books, while others have books for sale or rent, but will offer a limited number of free downloads.
Free audio books on offer include not only entertainment, but many language courses and other university / educational courses, inspirational material and promotional material.
Remember that while you’re carrying out those dull routine tasks, enjoying a leisurely walk, sunbathing at the pool, recuperating at home, or just have some time to fill, there are free audio books available to spice up your life and introduce new elements into your world.
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Remember when you were a kid, how much you loved having a story read to you? You could just close your eyes, or gaze into the distance, and visualize a whole different world, accompanied by the soothing sound of someone’s voice?
Audio books are widely available from a number of sources, for purchase, for rent, and as downloads – but they do not have to be a major expense in your life. Free audio books are available, once again, from a number of sources.
With books, sometimes one prefers to purchase them new and to keep them at home for a number of people to read and to be able to read repeatedly. Other books, one buys on sale. Either way, one builds a home library. For avid readers, obtaining books from a public library may be a more convenient choice. The same applies to audio books. (There is probably an audio book library near you – perhaps even in a section of your regular library. Alternatively, there are audio book libraries online.)
Free Audio Books – Where To Find Them:
If you already belong to a library, that would be a good place to start your search for free audio books.
Alternatively, there are a number of sites online where you can download free audio books – just doing a Google search will probably reveal more than you expected.
One of the organizations well worth a mention is LibriVox. They provide free audio books from the public domain. Volunteers record books in the public domain and publish the files onto the internet, where you can download them. Their goal is to record all books in the public domain.
Type “free audio book” into your Google – or other – search bar and a great number of sites will be listed. Some of them are dedicated to free audio books, while others have books for sale or rent, but will offer a limited number of free downloads.
Free audio books on offer include not only entertainment, but many language courses and other university / educational courses, inspirational material and promotional material.
Remember that while you’re carrying out those dull routine tasks, enjoying a leisurely walk, sunbathing at the pool, recuperating at home, or just have some time to fill, there are free audio books available to spice up your life and introduce new elements into your world.
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Reading By Ear: The Audio Book
The concept of audio books is by no means new – but they are easier to obtain now and are available in more applications than ever before. Originally, audio books were done on tape cassettes, but now they are readily available on CD, MP3, or as downloads from web sites. Generally they are sold, usually in CD form, rented, downloaded at a price, or are obtainable from libraries, but there are also free audio books available as downloads from various web sites.
The original audio books tended to be more in the range of study material - learning languages, various motivational courses, or literary study aids, not to mention an array of promotional material – but they have developed to cover a much wider spectrum. Educational material in this form has boomed. Voice recordings of published books exist either in the form of actors reading parts, or of someone reading the book to an audience. In some cases, stories are published books, in other cases the audio books are specially written for this medium. Sci-Fi forms a large part of the audio book market, including serialization of scripts specifically written for the medium.
Whether your objective is study, entertainment or use as a remedial tool, there are audio books readily available to suit your requirements.
Uses For – And The Convenience Of – Audio Books.
One of the most obvious benefits of the audio book is the benefit to those who suffer from impaired vision. There are others, though, who are unable to read and would benefit hugely from being able to listen – small children and anyone else who has not yet learnt to read. Audio books make education a reality even for the illiterate, but they also offer a world of entertainment, information and knowledge despite people’s inability to read.
For many of us, the audio book gives us an opportunity to catch up on some “reading” in situations where we don’t normally use a book. Driving a car, for example, particularly if you are cursed with peak hour traffic every day. Even using public transport, many people are uncomfortable burying the faces in a book – they want to be alert and see what is happening around them. The audio book is the answer – out with the MP3 player, and you’re conscious of two worlds at once.
If you’re good at multi-tasking, it’s a boon. Listen to your favourite stories, inspirational material, or learn something new while going about routine housekeeping tasks, or any other routine work, for that matter.
The audio book certainly adds an element of convenience to our lives, particularly now that we have such a variety to listen to.
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Keyword density: 13/3%
Secondary keyword: 1
The original audio books tended to be more in the range of study material - learning languages, various motivational courses, or literary study aids, not to mention an array of promotional material – but they have developed to cover a much wider spectrum. Educational material in this form has boomed. Voice recordings of published books exist either in the form of actors reading parts, or of someone reading the book to an audience. In some cases, stories are published books, in other cases the audio books are specially written for this medium. Sci-Fi forms a large part of the audio book market, including serialization of scripts specifically written for the medium.
Whether your objective is study, entertainment or use as a remedial tool, there are audio books readily available to suit your requirements.
Uses For – And The Convenience Of – Audio Books.
One of the most obvious benefits of the audio book is the benefit to those who suffer from impaired vision. There are others, though, who are unable to read and would benefit hugely from being able to listen – small children and anyone else who has not yet learnt to read. Audio books make education a reality even for the illiterate, but they also offer a world of entertainment, information and knowledge despite people’s inability to read.
For many of us, the audio book gives us an opportunity to catch up on some “reading” in situations where we don’t normally use a book. Driving a car, for example, particularly if you are cursed with peak hour traffic every day. Even using public transport, many people are uncomfortable burying the faces in a book – they want to be alert and see what is happening around them. The audio book is the answer – out with the MP3 player, and you’re conscious of two worlds at once.
If you’re good at multi-tasking, it’s a boon. Listen to your favourite stories, inspirational material, or learn something new while going about routine housekeeping tasks, or any other routine work, for that matter.
The audio book certainly adds an element of convenience to our lives, particularly now that we have such a variety to listen to.
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Keyword density: 13/3%
Secondary keyword: 1
You Know You’re The Best! - So Which Is The Best Online Dating Site For You?
It’s all over the place; advertised on business sites, blogs, affiliate programmes, just about everywhere you surf – the online dating web site. Perish the thought that you might even be interested! But, hey, somewhere a nagging little voice in your mind really wants to just have a look! But which one is the best online dating site for you to explore?
They’re generally free to browse and even to set up a profile. Check out a number of them and browse until one strikes you as being the best online dating site, or at least the one that suits you the best.
In order to find the best online dating site for you, there are some considerations. Location is a big one. Some sites service specific areas like the U.S.A., the U.K. and Australia, when you might be located in Africa, Russia or Korea. Certainly it can be fun to correspond with people in those distant areas, but realistically, the best online dating site for you would have to include the area in which you reside, as well as the far-away places. (Make no mistake, there are people who have packed their belongings and moved to distant shores to join someone they met online – though not always for the best!)
Surf’s Up! I’m Ridin’ The Wave … Now What?
The best online dating site must also be the safest one – one that has the built-in features to protect its members. When you’re surfing, take note of the layout and the design of the site. You’ll realize that a number of them look exactly the same, with different colour combinations and site addresses – but they feature the same people and the same rules and formats. That’s good. There are a few big sites who allow affiliated partners to use their resources under their own names. The registration, rules, features and accounts all lead back to the one “service provider”. Those big sites have the experience and ability to offer you the best, safest experience
Once you’ve identified one of those highly professional ones, that would probably be the best online dating site for you in terms of general safety, multitude of choices, user-friendliness and online help.
Chances are that you will have already set up your profile before you decided that this was your own best online dating site. Now read their terms and conditions, understand their ethical requirements, JOIN your best online dating site, and then refine your profile with the right filters.
Remember that even the best online dating site in the world can still be a hunting ground for predators. You need to exercise caution, a good deal of commonsense and responsibility.
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They’re generally free to browse and even to set up a profile. Check out a number of them and browse until one strikes you as being the best online dating site, or at least the one that suits you the best.
In order to find the best online dating site for you, there are some considerations. Location is a big one. Some sites service specific areas like the U.S.A., the U.K. and Australia, when you might be located in Africa, Russia or Korea. Certainly it can be fun to correspond with people in those distant areas, but realistically, the best online dating site for you would have to include the area in which you reside, as well as the far-away places. (Make no mistake, there are people who have packed their belongings and moved to distant shores to join someone they met online – though not always for the best!)
Surf’s Up! I’m Ridin’ The Wave … Now What?
The best online dating site must also be the safest one – one that has the built-in features to protect its members. When you’re surfing, take note of the layout and the design of the site. You’ll realize that a number of them look exactly the same, with different colour combinations and site addresses – but they feature the same people and the same rules and formats. That’s good. There are a few big sites who allow affiliated partners to use their resources under their own names. The registration, rules, features and accounts all lead back to the one “service provider”. Those big sites have the experience and ability to offer you the best, safest experience
Once you’ve identified one of those highly professional ones, that would probably be the best online dating site for you in terms of general safety, multitude of choices, user-friendliness and online help.
Chances are that you will have already set up your profile before you decided that this was your own best online dating site. Now read their terms and conditions, understand their ethical requirements, JOIN your best online dating site, and then refine your profile with the right filters.
Remember that even the best online dating site in the world can still be a hunting ground for predators. You need to exercise caution, a good deal of commonsense and responsibility.
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Truth or Myth? The Free Online Dating Site.
We see it advertised all the time – the free online dating site. Find your ideal partner, for FREE!
The free online dating site certainly is free to browse and to locate that person. When does it stop being a free dating site and turn into a paid dating site? The moment you want to make contact. When your heart is aflutter and the sound of your heartbeat drowns out the blaring TV, when your ears are aching with the rush of blood, when you’ve found that dream and you find the courage to poise your cursor above the “reply” button – that’s the moment.
Click! In order to reply, your free online dating site puts your thrill on hold for a moment. Just a moment, though, while you fill out a form with some details concerning your payment of the membership fees. The fees, however, when you reach that moment, are really not exorbitant at all. In fact, they’re pretty well worth it for the fun you’re going to get out of it, even if it’s just entertainment.
The point is this. You don’t, at this stage, know which is the best online dating site for you to join as a paid member. So you join the free online dating site while you do some window shopping. There’s no limit to how many you join for free, except for the time it takes to browse them all, and possibly your bandwidth limits.
How Much Can You Do For Free?
A great deal, in fact. Even the free online dating site wants you to set up your profile when you join. For good reason. In order to calculate your best matches, it needs to know something about you and about your requirements. You can browse to your heart’s delight, but if you want to the site to be able to calculate the best matches, it has to have something to measure it by.
There are thousands of people registered. You could browse ad nauseum, with much of your efforts a waste of your time for any number of logistical reasons. To get the right results, you really want to be able to filter the searches according to your requirements, over and above age and gender.
Register on the free online dating site and set up a name and profile. Once you have explored a number of them, you’ll get to decide which one is the best online dating site for you to join and become a fee-paying member, if any.
The free online dating site is certainly a reality, and the right place to start, especially if you are uncertain about whether it’s your thing or not.
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The free online dating site certainly is free to browse and to locate that person. When does it stop being a free dating site and turn into a paid dating site? The moment you want to make contact. When your heart is aflutter and the sound of your heartbeat drowns out the blaring TV, when your ears are aching with the rush of blood, when you’ve found that dream and you find the courage to poise your cursor above the “reply” button – that’s the moment.
Click! In order to reply, your free online dating site puts your thrill on hold for a moment. Just a moment, though, while you fill out a form with some details concerning your payment of the membership fees. The fees, however, when you reach that moment, are really not exorbitant at all. In fact, they’re pretty well worth it for the fun you’re going to get out of it, even if it’s just entertainment.
The point is this. You don’t, at this stage, know which is the best online dating site for you to join as a paid member. So you join the free online dating site while you do some window shopping. There’s no limit to how many you join for free, except for the time it takes to browse them all, and possibly your bandwidth limits.
How Much Can You Do For Free?
A great deal, in fact. Even the free online dating site wants you to set up your profile when you join. For good reason. In order to calculate your best matches, it needs to know something about you and about your requirements. You can browse to your heart’s delight, but if you want to the site to be able to calculate the best matches, it has to have something to measure it by.
There are thousands of people registered. You could browse ad nauseum, with much of your efforts a waste of your time for any number of logistical reasons. To get the right results, you really want to be able to filter the searches according to your requirements, over and above age and gender.
Register on the free online dating site and set up a name and profile. Once you have explored a number of them, you’ll get to decide which one is the best online dating site for you to join and become a fee-paying member, if any.
The free online dating site is certainly a reality, and the right place to start, especially if you are uncertain about whether it’s your thing or not.
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Keyword density: 2% = 9
Secondary keywords: 2
Today’s Watering Hole - The Online Dating Site
The traditional watering holes where people gather to meet are all still intact. The clubs, the pubs, the social groups, the hobby forums. They’re all still there and as good – or bad – as they ever were; but by far the most popular meeting ground these days is the online dating site. It’s by no means the new kid on the block anymore. The online dating site has been around for a long time, but at this stage it is no longer the novelty that it once was. It has been well and truly tried and tested.
On social networking sites, the motivations for joining are as varied as the people joining them. Are they there to advertise their blogs, their online businesses, their art or hobbies, or just making friends around the globe? It’s all good; but if it’s meeting people for the sake of dating that you’re after, then the online dating site is unambiguous. Log onto an online dating site, and you know precisely what you are doing there, and the same applies to everyone else. No misunderstandings.
It’s quite true that the online dating site is a well-known hunting ground for predators. There again, so are the pubs and clubs. The online community has matured a great deal since the early days. Well….. put it this way, we’ve been around long enough now to have become more “street-wise” on the highways and byways of cyberspace. More importantly, in the case of the online dating site, on the pavements and side streets of cyberspace!
So How Safe Are They?
How safe is your car trip to the club? Accessing the online dating site from the security of your home must be safer. More importantly, how safe is your ride home? Not as safe as logging out of the online dating site. What are your chances of getting wasted at the physical site and making bad – very bad – decisions? At least, when you’re visiting an online dating site, you’re in a position to make sober decisions. You could be wasted at home too, but that’s your choice, it’s not because you feel obliged to drink, or obligated to the minimum expense for frequenting the place.
On the subject of expense, as far as I’m aware, it is a free online dating site as long as you are browsing, which you can do to your heart’s content. Once you want to begin replying to ads, then there is a joining fee attached. In most cases, it’s not a lot in comparison with the price of fuel!
From that point on, however, all the laws of prudence and appropriate safety measures when setting up meetings apply as in all dating situations.
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On social networking sites, the motivations for joining are as varied as the people joining them. Are they there to advertise their blogs, their online businesses, their art or hobbies, or just making friends around the globe? It’s all good; but if it’s meeting people for the sake of dating that you’re after, then the online dating site is unambiguous. Log onto an online dating site, and you know precisely what you are doing there, and the same applies to everyone else. No misunderstandings.
It’s quite true that the online dating site is a well-known hunting ground for predators. There again, so are the pubs and clubs. The online community has matured a great deal since the early days. Well….. put it this way, we’ve been around long enough now to have become more “street-wise” on the highways and byways of cyberspace. More importantly, in the case of the online dating site, on the pavements and side streets of cyberspace!
So How Safe Are They?
How safe is your car trip to the club? Accessing the online dating site from the security of your home must be safer. More importantly, how safe is your ride home? Not as safe as logging out of the online dating site. What are your chances of getting wasted at the physical site and making bad – very bad – decisions? At least, when you’re visiting an online dating site, you’re in a position to make sober decisions. You could be wasted at home too, but that’s your choice, it’s not because you feel obliged to drink, or obligated to the minimum expense for frequenting the place.
On the subject of expense, as far as I’m aware, it is a free online dating site as long as you are browsing, which you can do to your heart’s content. Once you want to begin replying to ads, then there is a joining fee attached. In most cases, it’s not a lot in comparison with the price of fuel!
From that point on, however, all the laws of prudence and appropriate safety measures when setting up meetings apply as in all dating situations.
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Sports Injuries: Cure For Achilles Tendonitis.
Achilles tendonitis accounts for over 10% of running injuries. The Achilles tendon is the large tendon at the back of the ankle, and powers your takeoff. There’s a relatively poor blood supply there, so when it becomes inflamed, healing can be slow. Inflammation can occur from overuse, training too much or running on hard surfaces or up hills.
Your home cure for Achilles tendonitis is to apply cold therapy, like an ice pack, and use a heel pad to take some of the strain off the tendon. Then see a doctor provide additional assistance in the cure for Achilles tendonitis. He will probably prescribe an anti-inflammatory medication, such as ibuprofen, or a similar product generally used for the cure of Achilles tendonitis. It may be necessary to tape the tendon, or even to apply a cast if the condition is severe enough.
A sports therapist could apply sports massage techniques, and he could also help you to change your training methods.
If you’re averse to the use of medications, there is such a thing as a tendonitis natural treatment, where natural substances such as MSM – organic sulphur – can be used in the cure of Achilles tendonitis as well. Consult your natural remedy specialist on that one.
The Best Cure Of Achilles Tendonitis Is Prevention.
That’s a terribly obvious statement, but once you’ve suffered the affliction and realized how long it can take to heal, you’ll probably agree readily that your personal cure of Achilles tendonitis is to be conscious of the threat of it while you’re in a training situation!
However, as the healing is a long process, you’ll probably begin training again some time before the process is complete, so you will have to take steps to assist in the body’s process in its cure of Achilles tendonitis.
Some of the aids you could apply are:
Cold therapy wraps to apply cold and decompression, which reduces pain levels.
Arch support insoles, which provide a firm support to the foot and prevent twisting.
A slant board, which helps to apply an accurate stretch to the calf muscles.
Achilles tendon straps, which wrap around your ankle and provide a gentle pressure to the tendon, educing shock and tension.
Heel pads, to shorten the calf muscles and relieve stress on the tendon.
A night splint. This is used at night to apply a gentle stretch and prevent a tightening of the tendon.
The cure of Achilles tendonitis is a process, but the nature of the injury and its long healing process should encourage you to treat that tendon with the utmost respect in your training program.
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Your home cure for Achilles tendonitis is to apply cold therapy, like an ice pack, and use a heel pad to take some of the strain off the tendon. Then see a doctor provide additional assistance in the cure for Achilles tendonitis. He will probably prescribe an anti-inflammatory medication, such as ibuprofen, or a similar product generally used for the cure of Achilles tendonitis. It may be necessary to tape the tendon, or even to apply a cast if the condition is severe enough.
A sports therapist could apply sports massage techniques, and he could also help you to change your training methods.
If you’re averse to the use of medications, there is such a thing as a tendonitis natural treatment, where natural substances such as MSM – organic sulphur – can be used in the cure of Achilles tendonitis as well. Consult your natural remedy specialist on that one.
The Best Cure Of Achilles Tendonitis Is Prevention.
That’s a terribly obvious statement, but once you’ve suffered the affliction and realized how long it can take to heal, you’ll probably agree readily that your personal cure of Achilles tendonitis is to be conscious of the threat of it while you’re in a training situation!
However, as the healing is a long process, you’ll probably begin training again some time before the process is complete, so you will have to take steps to assist in the body’s process in its cure of Achilles tendonitis.
Some of the aids you could apply are:
Cold therapy wraps to apply cold and decompression, which reduces pain levels.
Arch support insoles, which provide a firm support to the foot and prevent twisting.
A slant board, which helps to apply an accurate stretch to the calf muscles.
Achilles tendon straps, which wrap around your ankle and provide a gentle pressure to the tendon, educing shock and tension.
Heel pads, to shorten the calf muscles and relieve stress on the tendon.
A night splint. This is used at night to apply a gentle stretch and prevent a tightening of the tendon.
The cure of Achilles tendonitis is a process, but the nature of the injury and its long healing process should encourage you to treat that tendon with the utmost respect in your training program.
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Beginner Bodybuilding Workout Don’t Try Shortcuts.
You have a friend who does bodybuilding, so you’ll just copy his routine? Don’t. You want your endeavour to succeed; don’t torpedo it right from the start. Start with a beginner bodybuilding workout. Sports injuries are no joke. Remember training at school for that marathon or cross-country event that everyone would be watching? Then spending the night before the event desperately looking for quick cure for achilles tendonitis? Injuries hurt. You’re trying to feel better, not worse.
Ironically, causing limited damage is part of the bodybuilding process, but it’s controlled! When you start out with a beginner bodybuilding workout, you can train more often than the more experienced and more advanced people can. Why? As you get more experienced, you push your body harder and inflict more damage, which takes the body longer to recover from! Great, so you’re injuring yourself on purpose? Yup. You’re inflicting limited damage to the muscle, which makes the body repair the damage, and it overcompensates slightly – or grows - in preparation for future workouts! So you’re starting a cycle of damage and recovery, session after session.
The experienced bodybuilder learns to push his muscles, but he knows where his limits are. He incurs fair damage and needs that recovery period. The beginner on a beginner bodybuilding workout, on the other hand, gets pretty sore, but doesn’t inflict the same amount of damage, and recovers faster. Now you know – so ensure you get plenty of rest and sleep to help your body to recover.
Establishing A Beginner Bodybuilding Workout.
To establish a beginner bodybuilding workout that’s right for you, your trainer will look you over, weigh you, check your height and relation between height and weight, establish your percentage body fat, check blood pressure, and so on. When he’s appraised you, he’ll work out the appropriate beginner bodybuilding workout for you.
You’ll be able to start training three or preferably four times a week, alternating the muscle groups you’re working on, so that you’re probably training each muscle perhaps twice a week.
Even in a beginner bodybuilding workout, it is very important to start your routine with warm-up or stretching exercises. Chances are that they’ll start you with some cardio-vascular activities – the cycle one day, the treadmill the next time, followed by some rowing, or similar, before you get to the weights and your circuit training.
A well supervised beginner bodybuilding workout routine will build you in a pleasant, positive manner, limiting the muscle damage to what is required for growth, without causing severe damage that will prohibit your development later.
Don’t be ‘cavalier’ about your training. Start with a beginner bodybuilding workout and enjoy the fruits of planned, pleasant and sustained growth.
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Ironically, causing limited damage is part of the bodybuilding process, but it’s controlled! When you start out with a beginner bodybuilding workout, you can train more often than the more experienced and more advanced people can. Why? As you get more experienced, you push your body harder and inflict more damage, which takes the body longer to recover from! Great, so you’re injuring yourself on purpose? Yup. You’re inflicting limited damage to the muscle, which makes the body repair the damage, and it overcompensates slightly – or grows - in preparation for future workouts! So you’re starting a cycle of damage and recovery, session after session.
The experienced bodybuilder learns to push his muscles, but he knows where his limits are. He incurs fair damage and needs that recovery period. The beginner on a beginner bodybuilding workout, on the other hand, gets pretty sore, but doesn’t inflict the same amount of damage, and recovers faster. Now you know – so ensure you get plenty of rest and sleep to help your body to recover.
Establishing A Beginner Bodybuilding Workout.
To establish a beginner bodybuilding workout that’s right for you, your trainer will look you over, weigh you, check your height and relation between height and weight, establish your percentage body fat, check blood pressure, and so on. When he’s appraised you, he’ll work out the appropriate beginner bodybuilding workout for you.
You’ll be able to start training three or preferably four times a week, alternating the muscle groups you’re working on, so that you’re probably training each muscle perhaps twice a week.
Even in a beginner bodybuilding workout, it is very important to start your routine with warm-up or stretching exercises. Chances are that they’ll start you with some cardio-vascular activities – the cycle one day, the treadmill the next time, followed by some rowing, or similar, before you get to the weights and your circuit training.
A well supervised beginner bodybuilding workout routine will build you in a pleasant, positive manner, limiting the muscle damage to what is required for growth, without causing severe damage that will prohibit your development later.
Don’t be ‘cavalier’ about your training. Start with a beginner bodybuilding workout and enjoy the fruits of planned, pleasant and sustained growth.
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Natural Bodybuilding Workout: Forget Those Steroids.
By definition, ‘natural bodybuilding’ is building your body to its greatest potential without using steroids, or other growth-enhancing drugs, to achieve this goal.
A natural bodybuilding workout should be designed with some knowledge of the subject, or under the supervision of a trainer. Particularly when we start out, we tend to push ourselves too far, risking injury. In any natural bodybuilding workout, we need to establish a routine that pushes our bodies hard enough to gain the growth, without diminishing our goals by inflicting injury.
Using steroids to attain faster growth instead persevering with the natural bodybuilding workout may seem like an attractive alternative while we’re huffing and puffing, but make no mistake, there are side effects that could destroy your false sense of achievement. Joseph Krachenfels, in his article “Natural Bodybuilding Discussed”, lists some of the side effects of anabolic steroids as acne, baldness, headaches, kidney problems, impotence, high blood pressure and soft tissues injuries. Not worth it. Steady, sustained growth with proper bodybuilding nutrition is the way to go for a clean, healthy, happy life.
Despite your initial enthusiasm, during your natural bodybuilding workout, don’t over train. Muscle or tissue injury and / or exhaustion is neither beneficial nor encouraging. ‘Success’ is in every session done properly and safely, not in the punishment you can take. Warm up before you start your natural bodybuilding workout with stretching exercises and some cardio-vascular, like a few minutes on the treadmill.
Vary your exercises to include all the muscle groups – and focus on doing them properly. Swinging your body to achieve a lift is using your weight instead of your muscles. Concentrate on form rather than weight.
Proper nutrition, proper sleep and a healthy attitude, as well as your natural bodybuilding workout, could just turn you into the person you’re been longing to be.
Don’t Try My Natural Bodybuilding Workout!
My own natural bodybuilding workout went something like this:
Position: armchair. Six-pack on the stomach. (I presumed that was to keep me from swinging my body to lift the weights.) Grasp a beer can in the right hand, (being careful to alternate hands after each set) then slowly lifted to the mouth, keeping the elbow steady, and then lowering it again to the starting position.
My arms definitely got stronger during the routine, because the cans seemed to get progressively lighter. But I gave it up – the stomach became too well developed.
Note of caution: Ladies, if your partner is balding, carrying too much soft tissue, goes to the loo four time a night and claims to have a headache when you’re all coy – please don’t accuse him of using steroids! There could be another cause.
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A natural bodybuilding workout should be designed with some knowledge of the subject, or under the supervision of a trainer. Particularly when we start out, we tend to push ourselves too far, risking injury. In any natural bodybuilding workout, we need to establish a routine that pushes our bodies hard enough to gain the growth, without diminishing our goals by inflicting injury.
Using steroids to attain faster growth instead persevering with the natural bodybuilding workout may seem like an attractive alternative while we’re huffing and puffing, but make no mistake, there are side effects that could destroy your false sense of achievement. Joseph Krachenfels, in his article “Natural Bodybuilding Discussed”, lists some of the side effects of anabolic steroids as acne, baldness, headaches, kidney problems, impotence, high blood pressure and soft tissues injuries. Not worth it. Steady, sustained growth with proper bodybuilding nutrition is the way to go for a clean, healthy, happy life.
Despite your initial enthusiasm, during your natural bodybuilding workout, don’t over train. Muscle or tissue injury and / or exhaustion is neither beneficial nor encouraging. ‘Success’ is in every session done properly and safely, not in the punishment you can take. Warm up before you start your natural bodybuilding workout with stretching exercises and some cardio-vascular, like a few minutes on the treadmill.
Vary your exercises to include all the muscle groups – and focus on doing them properly. Swinging your body to achieve a lift is using your weight instead of your muscles. Concentrate on form rather than weight.
Proper nutrition, proper sleep and a healthy attitude, as well as your natural bodybuilding workout, could just turn you into the person you’re been longing to be.
Don’t Try My Natural Bodybuilding Workout!
My own natural bodybuilding workout went something like this:
Position: armchair. Six-pack on the stomach. (I presumed that was to keep me from swinging my body to lift the weights.) Grasp a beer can in the right hand, (being careful to alternate hands after each set) then slowly lifted to the mouth, keeping the elbow steady, and then lowering it again to the starting position.
My arms definitely got stronger during the routine, because the cans seemed to get progressively lighter. But I gave it up – the stomach became too well developed.
Note of caution: Ladies, if your partner is balding, carrying too much soft tissue, goes to the loo four time a night and claims to have a headache when you’re all coy – please don’t accuse him of using steroids! There could be another cause.
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Bodybuilding Chest Workout: Combatting The Rum And Maple!
It all feels good, but, for me, exercising some muscle groups is a lot more enjoyable than others. I do not enjoy leg exercises! Worst for me are the calves. Running has always been a form of torture to me, so I guess it makes sense that the parts that were never developed would be the least enjoyable to work on.
In case it isn’t already obvious, I am no dedicated bodybuilder. My enthusiasm comes and goes at more or less regular intervals. I am not competitive. However, that doesn’t mean that I cannot thoroughly enjoy my time at the gym and luxuriate in the feeling of getting those tired, flagging, muscles working again and opening up the old arteries. Even if it means that I never progress beyond the beginner bodybuilding workout stage. The joy is not in the competition; it’s in the moment.
As I was saying, I enjoy some more than others, and I probably enjoy the bodybuilding chest workout the most. The feeling of those chest exercises gets my blood rushing and the heart feeling really good. They get my vote for the routines I enjoy the most. And more than any other, the bodybuilding chest workout gets those lungs opened up and feeling strong, instead of winded and gagging.
Some of the other routines leave me feeling punished and even resentful (dumb, I know), but the reward is in getting to do the others! The bodybuilding chest workout isn’t the only one I enjoy – don’t get that idea! I’m not fixating on bodybuilding chest workouts to the exclusion of anything else. Some workouts may not be firm favourites to look forward to, but while I’m doing them, I enjoy them. Others I really look forward to, then while I’m doing them, I wonder why!
As I said, it’s all good.
Back To The Bodybuilding Chest Workout.
Obviously one alternates, but bench press is one of my favourites in any bodybuilding chest workout. On the bench, the wide grip, the narrow grip and the decline bench press. And, of course, dumbbell flyes on a flat bench, an inclined and a declined bench.
Can’t escape the crossover cables in a bodybuilding chest workout, the high crossover cables for the lower pecs and inner pecs, and the low crossover cables for those difficult inner pecs. Nice change after the pushing and squeezing to be pulling for a change! The first few feel like a comparative holiday, until the pecs start objecting.
Then back to pressing in the seated chest presses.
Perhaps the bodybuilding chest workout isn’t all fun after all – but that exhilarating feeling of complete free flow afterwards is SO worth the pain!
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In case it isn’t already obvious, I am no dedicated bodybuilder. My enthusiasm comes and goes at more or less regular intervals. I am not competitive. However, that doesn’t mean that I cannot thoroughly enjoy my time at the gym and luxuriate in the feeling of getting those tired, flagging, muscles working again and opening up the old arteries. Even if it means that I never progress beyond the beginner bodybuilding workout stage. The joy is not in the competition; it’s in the moment.
As I was saying, I enjoy some more than others, and I probably enjoy the bodybuilding chest workout the most. The feeling of those chest exercises gets my blood rushing and the heart feeling really good. They get my vote for the routines I enjoy the most. And more than any other, the bodybuilding chest workout gets those lungs opened up and feeling strong, instead of winded and gagging.
Some of the other routines leave me feeling punished and even resentful (dumb, I know), but the reward is in getting to do the others! The bodybuilding chest workout isn’t the only one I enjoy – don’t get that idea! I’m not fixating on bodybuilding chest workouts to the exclusion of anything else. Some workouts may not be firm favourites to look forward to, but while I’m doing them, I enjoy them. Others I really look forward to, then while I’m doing them, I wonder why!
As I said, it’s all good.
Back To The Bodybuilding Chest Workout.
Obviously one alternates, but bench press is one of my favourites in any bodybuilding chest workout. On the bench, the wide grip, the narrow grip and the decline bench press. And, of course, dumbbell flyes on a flat bench, an inclined and a declined bench.
Can’t escape the crossover cables in a bodybuilding chest workout, the high crossover cables for the lower pecs and inner pecs, and the low crossover cables for those difficult inner pecs. Nice change after the pushing and squeezing to be pulling for a change! The first few feel like a comparative holiday, until the pecs start objecting.
Then back to pressing in the seated chest presses.
Perhaps the bodybuilding chest workout isn’t all fun after all – but that exhilarating feeling of complete free flow afterwards is SO worth the pain!
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My Black Suede Handbag – A Saga Is Born.
Today I discovered the sensuality of suede. I’d slipped out of the office at lunchtime to buy a bag for an evening function at work, all my existing ones having been ravished by the dog, my child, or my own carelessness. I’d intended to simply pick something serviceable and multifunctional, but an obliging saleslady had introduced me to a neat, sleek, elegant black suede handbag that got me hooked on suede the moment I handled it. From that moment onwards, my black suede handbag became my newest best friend.
When it was time to go home, I tucked my new black suede handbag under my arm and walked out with a new spring in my step.
As I passed the handbag shop, I gazed at the displays, unconsciously stroking my black suede handbag reassuringly like a new puppy I was taking home for the first time. Then I saw it. THAT was my next purchase!
It was only when I saw the alarmed expression of the man walking past me that I realized that I had muttered aloud to the bag under my arm, “That’s your new brother! See? The brown suede handbag on the left shelf? He’ll be home with us soon.”
I flushed, looked down at the pavement steadfastly, and hurried to the bus stop, black suede bag choking to death in an unbreakable armpit clamp.
The Saga Begins: Our Struggle For Survival.
Safely seated on the bus, I loosened my deathlike grip on the bag, then had a frightening thought. What if I was SWEATING? And with that, I started to sweat profusely. I released the bag immediately and grabbed at it with the other hand to see what damage had been done. At that moment, a motorcyclist swung in front of the bus. The bus driver swerved viciously and slammed on the brakes. The bag went skidding down the isle! “My black suede handbag!” I yelled in breaking hysteria. Every face turned to me in astonishment and umpteen hands flew out to rescue the slithering bag. I retrieved it hurriedly from an outstretched hand and regained my seat, once again flushing in shame.
Once home, my attempts to smuggle it into a place of safety proved fruitless. “You got a new thingy!” yelled one of the kids. “It’s NOT a thingy – it’s a black suede handbag! Leave it!” The dog smelled it and started to lift his leg. He escaped neutering by a hair’s breadth.
My black suede handbag eventually scored a safe resting place, which I will not reveal at this time. Rest assured, it WILL be protected. It’s not just a bag, it’s an ally. It’s my black suede handbag.
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When it was time to go home, I tucked my new black suede handbag under my arm and walked out with a new spring in my step.
As I passed the handbag shop, I gazed at the displays, unconsciously stroking my black suede handbag reassuringly like a new puppy I was taking home for the first time. Then I saw it. THAT was my next purchase!
It was only when I saw the alarmed expression of the man walking past me that I realized that I had muttered aloud to the bag under my arm, “That’s your new brother! See? The brown suede handbag on the left shelf? He’ll be home with us soon.”
I flushed, looked down at the pavement steadfastly, and hurried to the bus stop, black suede bag choking to death in an unbreakable armpit clamp.
The Saga Begins: Our Struggle For Survival.
Safely seated on the bus, I loosened my deathlike grip on the bag, then had a frightening thought. What if I was SWEATING? And with that, I started to sweat profusely. I released the bag immediately and grabbed at it with the other hand to see what damage had been done. At that moment, a motorcyclist swung in front of the bus. The bus driver swerved viciously and slammed on the brakes. The bag went skidding down the isle! “My black suede handbag!” I yelled in breaking hysteria. Every face turned to me in astonishment and umpteen hands flew out to rescue the slithering bag. I retrieved it hurriedly from an outstretched hand and regained my seat, once again flushing in shame.
Once home, my attempts to smuggle it into a place of safety proved fruitless. “You got a new thingy!” yelled one of the kids. “It’s NOT a thingy – it’s a black suede handbag! Leave it!” The dog smelled it and started to lift his leg. He escaped neutering by a hair’s breadth.
My black suede handbag eventually scored a safe resting place, which I will not reveal at this time. Rest assured, it WILL be protected. It’s not just a bag, it’s an ally. It’s my black suede handbag.
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Swayed To Suede My New Suede Handbag.
All I wanted was a handbag. Quick in and out. The dog had eaten the handle from one of my meagre collection, my little child had poured juice into another one, and I had allowed chocolate to melt in a third bag. There was a work-related event one evening the following week, which, it was made abundantly clear, I was expected to attend.
I slipped out of the office during my lunch break with every intention of getting something more-or-less acceptable with little or no fuss. The saleslady was ever so obliging. What, I asked naively, would be a good overall kind of style that would LOOK acceptable under most circumstances?
I picked up a few, turned them over, stroked them without much interest, then looked about vaguely.
“What about this little black suede handbag,” asked the lady?
It pricked my interest immediately. I touched it, I stroked it, pressed it, fondled it – and I was hooked!
“Suede” and “Persueded!” My New Suede Handbag!
It was perfect! Neat and sleek, big enough for the essentials, not too big for a dressy occasion. Neat little pockets to divide contents. But it wasn’t the style that I was hooked on. It was the suede. My suede handbag instantly became my new best friend, my sensual comforter!
I hugged it, I clutched it, I squeezed it all the way back to the office. The traffic and the pedestrian crush was harsh – but my suede handbag was gentle. The lunchtime noise was jarringly irritating, but my suede handbag was soothing and comforting. The work environment was unforgiving, but my suede handbag nuzzled me reassuringly. Sleek as a panther, gentle as a kitten
Back at the office, I placed it down gently – then moved it, and moved it again. Nowhere seemed safe enough. I spent the afternoon being as over protective as a new mother. “Just leave those on my desk, but mind my suede handbag!” “I appreciate the coffee, but DON’T put it near my suede handbag!”
I wouldn’t say that I’m obsessive about it, but if the dog attempts to chew my new suede handbag the way he did that old bag, he is very likely to become a suede handbag himself! (Tempting thought! He’d be so cuddly, with no bad habits! No, don’t go there…anyway, he wouldn’t match much.)
So there you have it. All I wanted was a handbag, a purse, something to clutch relentlessly at a function that wouldn’t be fun. Instead, I acquired a secret friend, a comforter for any occasion. I wasn’t the life of the party, but I will say this: I purred my way through that function with a new-found confidence that amazed my colleagues.
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I slipped out of the office during my lunch break with every intention of getting something more-or-less acceptable with little or no fuss. The saleslady was ever so obliging. What, I asked naively, would be a good overall kind of style that would LOOK acceptable under most circumstances?
I picked up a few, turned them over, stroked them without much interest, then looked about vaguely.
“What about this little black suede handbag,” asked the lady?
It pricked my interest immediately. I touched it, I stroked it, pressed it, fondled it – and I was hooked!
“Suede” and “Persueded!” My New Suede Handbag!
It was perfect! Neat and sleek, big enough for the essentials, not too big for a dressy occasion. Neat little pockets to divide contents. But it wasn’t the style that I was hooked on. It was the suede. My suede handbag instantly became my new best friend, my sensual comforter!
I hugged it, I clutched it, I squeezed it all the way back to the office. The traffic and the pedestrian crush was harsh – but my suede handbag was gentle. The lunchtime noise was jarringly irritating, but my suede handbag was soothing and comforting. The work environment was unforgiving, but my suede handbag nuzzled me reassuringly. Sleek as a panther, gentle as a kitten
Back at the office, I placed it down gently – then moved it, and moved it again. Nowhere seemed safe enough. I spent the afternoon being as over protective as a new mother. “Just leave those on my desk, but mind my suede handbag!” “I appreciate the coffee, but DON’T put it near my suede handbag!”
I wouldn’t say that I’m obsessive about it, but if the dog attempts to chew my new suede handbag the way he did that old bag, he is very likely to become a suede handbag himself! (Tempting thought! He’d be so cuddly, with no bad habits! No, don’t go there…anyway, he wouldn’t match much.)
So there you have it. All I wanted was a handbag, a purse, something to clutch relentlessly at a function that wouldn’t be fun. Instead, I acquired a secret friend, a comforter for any occasion. I wasn’t the life of the party, but I will say this: I purred my way through that function with a new-found confidence that amazed my colleagues.
Word Count: 249 excluding title.
Keyword density: 9/2%
Secondary keyword: 1
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