Last week I was in Nashville and flew back on my birthday and reflected on that experience, and got some feedback from others. At the time I was reflecting on some memories from my childhood that weren’t that great, and at the time I simply allowed myself to feel sorry for myself and feel the feelings that were associated with the experiences I had had, as I perceived them. Now I am not going around blaming others or looking for a fight. I just think sometimes you should allow yourself to feel sorry for yourself. I mean if something bad happened to you, and you don’t allow yourself to be honest about it, then you aren’t practicing emotional integrity, are you?

A while back I started a cause on Facebook called “Virtual Fishtrap“. It refers to a place on Puget Sound in Washington State where myself and others lived before bad things started happening like people dying or getting divorced. Anyhoo the principles of our “cause” are:

• We believe in emotional integrity/honesty
• We like to walk on the beach
• We like sheep

Anyone is welcome to join.

We were thinking of making Fishtrap the site of the new University of Emotional Integrity.

Class will be on Fishtrap beach

Lolcat is ready to enroll.

Lolcat sports a lovely U. of Emotional Integrity shirt

 And we’ve already gotten going on Board of Trustees, which will be headed by Milvina Dean, last survivor of the Titanic, whom I mentioned in my lecture last week on the tendency of trauma survivors to want to gather together on the anniversary of the traumatic event they experienced in common.

Milvina Dean, last survivor of the Titanic, with her favorite cat.

She died a few weeks ago, but it doesn’t matter, since we’ll mostly be using primary process thinking at the University. And after all, time is relative, right?

See you at the U.