The Best Gaslighting Deterrent Ever

Coming soon as a series.

Read the story behind the series, the series and some on the mental health benefits on Exploring Your Dark Side: The Adventure of a Lifetime

Update: The Ms Study Group-Class That Saved Lives During The Pandemic

 Updated: June 19, 2023

The most amazing part of the whole -- our whole adventure from THERE -- March 16, 2020 to HERE that has now led us -- NH/ZOP to soon be updated into the new Black Bear Mountain Village Project-- to me, Anastasia, is that, to date, the most dramatic life-saving to come out of our Ms Study Group/Class was the "life-saving" (still actively in progress) of the one board member in our midst who entered our shared pandemic survival programs: the Ms Study Group/Class and our Pandemic Survivor's Support Group coming from the most intact and stable growing up family environment of any of us.

"Could it be, I ask myself, that the other three of us, all board members, having SURVIVED-- Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) had built up more resilience to make it through the forces of the pandemic up against the political and social unrest we presently live-in.

Fyi -- SHE is now recovering beautifully.

We'll be telling you all about this "adventure of a lufetime" we've been living and the fruits of which are now preparing ourselves to pass on to YOU -- in the service of enhanced personal and community pandemic mental health recovery.

Look for broadcast derails-- coming soon. Good mental health permitting.

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Indeed ...

The "Ms Class That Saved Lives" made a wonderful start!

Under construction...

Update: New Broadcast Series

Reposted from NH/ZOP

Podcast Series: We"ve Got A Mental Health Crisis -- And We've Got A Mental Solution

Look for new rescheduled date --TBA

Q --What's happening with this series?

A1-- The mental health of our board members is our gold standard for mental health. In other words we are the role models for our product. In other words if "we ain't able to do good for ourselves, how can 

we pass on our tried and true mental health solution to you?

A2 -- Where have we/it been?-- DAMN! -- Working on our own mental health.

Q2 Would you have it any other way for us?

A2 Sampler of NH/ZOP mental health challenges since series announced.

Director Anastasia has been in and out of blindness episodes.

Secretary Treasurer Sue has been dealing with pandemic-- related PTSD and, as of today, her husband has been diagnosed with spinal cord injury from a serious fall last week

Chairperson of Budget And Finance Committee Jill has been dealing with a daughter with BPD mental health issues and a fentanyl addict boyfriend.

And -- we are deeply involved in writing a book Camelot Disrupted-- completion due date December 31 with deadlines almost every week.

Bottom Line: When you see and understand how our Black Bear Mountain Village Project works you'll see -- Our System Works -- "If you going work it!" And we are soon gonna be showing you how,

We are the evidence!

More to come

My Mom Was A Holocaust Survivor

Celebrating all moms on Mother's Day!

I already knew -- right up front -- when my father chose to make her his second wife that she had been through the war -- A German Jew who escaped Hitler to live in a rat and roach infested refugee camp in Shanghai China from 1939 -- 1945.

It had been seven years since the tragic death of my baby sister and the fallout after that had decimated my idyllic childhood. My mother had had a mental breakdown and turned her outrage at losing her baby onto my father and .me. I was eight at the time.

Now it was1955 and I was to get a new MOM!!

Following my brief description below of Camelot Disrupted, the context from which I derived my tale, I write of how it was for me with her -- in the beginning. By the end I knew her to be my angel.

In loving tribute to my Mom Freda

Excepting from Camelot Disrupted

Camelot Disrupted is a memoir in historical fiction-fantasy form {FYI -- revealing my secrets in Prince Harry's fashion -- the blood and guts of how it was is not my way at all but as my tale will tell sometimes one must choose, as Harry did, how best to survive in ways that seriously disrupt in the service of coming through the damage of ACE -- Adverse Childhood Experiences.-For Harry as for myself, suicide ideation can often be at the core of the mental health issue that must be overcome. That's how it was for me though now long ago healed for the most part, yet the healing is a never ending process.

About my Mom and I and the effects of trauma and not talking about things --

"Still Meda had her reserve with Freda. And not just a little. But it wasn't her fault! She needed a mother. That was for certain. But there were things Meda wished they could talk about that Freda seemed to almost deliberately avoid, to walk around as if there was some kind of rule not to speak of these things, things that had happened in the past, her past, her mom's and her father's past, even her Aunt Molly's.

When Meda stood back and reflected on this -- the things avoided all seemed to have a main point not to speak of -- death and dying. Why not, she wondered. Most importantly for Meda were the deaths of her mother and baby sister. Meda needed badly to talk about these, to ask questions, get grown-up answers. Sometimes she needed this so badly she thought she would scream. Rant. Maybe even tear her hair out and get down on the ground and kick and pound and cry. But there was no one to tell. No one who would listen. 

When she tried to bring up the subject, her parents constantly changed it to something else, ignoring what she had just said almost as if they hadn't heard her words at all.

Meda was confused about all kinds of things about those deaths. And hurt and scared. The baby's death, then her mother's less than a week later had turned her life upside down Meda’s whole world had collapsed with those deaths. Sometimes she felt as if she had died with them. Meda didn’t understand why they couldn't speak of something as important as death. They talked about everything else, including her grandmother's death. 

Her father's mother had died just this past February and they had mourned her passing fully in the Jewish tradition, the family observing the practices of Shiva, the seven-day period of formalized mourning by the immediate family of the deceased, as they had always done before. So why the secretiveness about the other deaths?

Overall they were a happy family, she thought, always having adventures, taking day trips, traveling up and down the coast and into Mexico. And always together on Sundays. Meda hated that part! She didn't always want to be with her family on Sundays, especially now that she could drive and needed to see her friends in Hollywood!

It didn’t make sense to her especially since her mom had been there -- almost on the front lines of dying and death. Her mom, a German Holocaust survivor, had been born in Germany when Hitler had come to power. Then she had escaped to Shanghai, China, living in a refugee camp. Mom must have known many deaths. 

Meda knew about that stuff from talks about it in Sunday School and at the JCC. Even at the synagogue they talked about it, especially every year when they celebrated Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Why did everyone act like it was a secret at her house? Everybody knew about the concentration camps.

But no matter how she tried to understand it, the bottom line was that if she couldn't talk to them about what was most important to her, then what was the point of talking at all? They complained about her not talking to them. Their view was that they had tried everything to get her to talk to them! But she knew it was the other way around. And the one thing that would have worked to get everyone talking they just wouldn't do - stop keeping secrets.

To be continued,

With love and gratitude to my mom -- "Freda Babe"

Want to know more about Meda Rose as she faces life and grows to be an outstanding role model through all her adventures?

Look for more tales excerpted from our writing adventure of Camelot Disrupted, Book One: Lost Hope Regained, a four book series.

COMING SOON!

Fyi Camelot Disrupted Is All About Family Secrets And Healing

 Under construction

--  along with the culmination of Anastasia's Prophecy (powered by Meda Rose).

In Loving Memory

Reflections on what would have been my father's 109th birthday.

Camelot Disrupted is dedicated --

In Loving Memory Of My Father --

Raymond Sidney Edelman

and

For my daughter Elisa Joy

Camelot Dusrupted is as much about these two people (fictionalized), my father and my daughter, as it will also be about the living out and culminating (also dictionalized) of "My Prophecy."

Also see these links -- about my father --

• Lean In Legacy Template and
• Whatever Happened To George Barris
• Leadership Role Models: A Personal Story

it's also a story that offers, at least one and many more, interesting and profound discussion points regarding the actions of Prince Harry and his cohort Meghan Markle from the perspective of a wise woman, me, many decades older, who has been in exile and silent about her own personal dealings with a "family monarchy"

Because it is my father's birthday and because I am disturbed by the whole Harry -- Buckingham Palace upset, today I might ??? celebrate my father's birthday by writing on the subject.

Umm!

5 a.m. Re Prince Harry and other commentaries on the subhect, it is a true sign of the polarized world we live in tgat about 99% of the general discussion of the subject bounces back and forth like a ping pong game -- "Should he have ...or "No, no! Not that!

Maybe there are many other possibilities if one looks outside the "box."

Umm

Update: A Full Recovery From Threatened Blindness Is Expected

 

Also see We've Gotta Mental Health Crisis

,,,says my esteemed opthamologist at John's Hopkins internationally renowned Wilmer Eye Institute. 

(Nothing but the best. Lucky me to live in Maryland, a pretty much across the board sane a d healthy place to live  where Johns Hopkins is located

But how did I just spend a month dealing with threatened blindness?

He does not know???

Me either!!

But..this I do know: Blindness (1998 - 2006) made a Shaman of me. That's how I got through the past month - on the high road and that's how I'm going to move forward now.

Heading next into a t meeting of my writing team; Sue, Ann and Christopher -- and me. Coalesced at last -- 26 months after we officially began on JANUARY 6, 2021!

Now how did that happen too?

Stories to tell. Stories to hear. Listen in to our new podcast series, Becoming Black Bear Mountain Village, A Tale of Radical Truth-telling Unfolding.