Seizure Salad (~Fustercluck Epilepticus~)

~ Wrapping up a wonderfully random conversation with two great people. ~ Vulnerability is strength. ~ Brainstorming future side-series.

~ Accept when your vulnerable, guys.  Drop the toxic masculinity bullshit! ~ Time & technology is starting to change the old paradigm. ~ Being honest with others or being honest with yourself?  Which do you think is more difficult?

Quick update on Micah's meeting with his new specialist, and then shameless promotion to raise funds for Team Seizure Salad in the 2020 Walk to End Epilepsy this Sunday, Oct 4th!   Seriously, though; since I can't be there in person, Seizure Salad will be live streaming during the event and talk about all things neurological!  Plus a whole bunch of stuff that isn't technically, yet still boggles t...

~ Looking for answers... Do I really want to know them?  ~ Working through it best way possible.  Protecting Your Energy! ~ Keep it open with your support crew.  They can't help unless you are!

~ Eli needs a microphone... ~ The seizures that took Eli to Montana. ~ Same specialist, different experience:  Is it the mindset of the patient, or the unique particularity of one's condition?

~ JoJo joins the party! ~ Continuing the idea of community homes for people with seizure disorder. ~ Finding roommates is hard.  Gets harder with epilepsy.  

~Mischievous vs Malicious.  ~Psychedelics. ~Mini-communities for epileptics? It would help in our need for as much independence as possible.  Hmmm...

~Mountain Town Partying... Epileptics can't go to 10 The whole town knows about it the next day ~B-Side shares stories of his trouble with the law back in his younger days.  Nothing malicious I assure you!  ;-) 

~Eli & B-Side talk about how our epilepsy effects our family. ~Touching on challenges of independent living with our condition.

~Laws can change, yet if minds don't nothing will!~ BLACK LIVES MATTER!   Militarized police forces?!?!  What The F*ck?!? ...can you say Authoritarian State?  

~You need a break, at least once a week.  (Seriously). ~The 60's....ah the memories!  For white people... ~Good cop / bad cop is not the f*ing point.  The problem lies within the system.

I have never been delighted to have a seizure until now!...

~More on political disillusionment. ~Frank Zappa saw the writing on the wall. ~Jerry Garcia's "success paradox". https://seizuresalad.org/  

B-Side steps out of character to remind a young friend that his vote is as important or more so as his voice.... Don't be the one who rallied with those affected, yet chooses to do nothing come November! If the young generation turn out to vote like they turned out to protest injustice, we might just make steps toward change!   VOTE!

~Random topics

B-Side sits down with certified counselor & coach Mark DeFee.   http://www.seizinglifecoaching.com/ mark@seizinglifecoaching.com 303-335-0571   Part 5: -Wrapping up an insightful & inspiring conversation. -Final thoughts & shameless plugs.

B-Side sits down with certified counselor & coach Mark DeFee.   http://www.seizinglifecoaching.com/ mark@seizinglifecoaching.com 303-335-0571   Part 4: -Mark details his 'Seizing Life Coaching Program'.  (Employers!, Look into this!) -The Seizing Life program is also a social support platform for epileptics!  Let's support each other!

B-Side sits down with certified counselor & coach Mark DeFee.   http://www.seizinglifecoaching.com/ mark@seizinglifecoaching.com 303-335-0571   Part 3: -The rest of Mark's backstory; Graduate school, and how Mark's proposal for a research class changed his life (again).  -Mark's current work, including his involvement with the Epilepsy Foundation of Colorado.

B-Side sits down with certified counselor & coach Mark DeFee.   http://www.seizinglifecoaching.com/ mark@seizinglifecoaching.com 303-335-0571   Part 2: -Backstory; more Texas football!....how it taught him self therapy, the importance of good friends (read: support network!).  -How self-therapy grew into helping others...

B-Side sits down with certified counselor & coach Mark DeFee.   http://www.seizinglifecoaching.com/ mark@seizinglifecoaching.com 303-335-0571   Part 1: Backstory; Texas football, baby!!!  

"He who has hope has everything." -Buddha

~Examine your beliefs. ~Why adhere to dogma? ~Moral battlefields

~America- you are considered the "melting pot of the world".  Start acting like it! -We need to get used to constant change, and fast! -FACT CHECK!!! -And of course we're dealing with more police brutality...sigh.  B-Side shares his recollection of the live video of the Rodney King beating.  & I mean beating.... I'd riot too, dammit!

Epilepsy Foundation of Colorado in the house!  Wendy, their Community Outreach Manager, talks about how we all can be more involved & proactive. https://www.epilepsycolorado.org/  

~2-party politics suck. ~Change starts at the local level. ~Third party voting. ~America; still proud, especially of the people speaking out.  We got this.