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Resume Sample — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 03:23:37 +0000

I can tell that you took considerable effort on this. Great effort

By: Mike Speakman

Mike Speakman — Sat, 10 May 2008 06:37:16 +0000

“Hurt people, hurt people -and themselves”. That’s a saying on the wall of my office where I work as a licensed substance abuse counselor and where my special area of interest is Anger Education. Daniel Goleman, author of the book, “Emotional Intelligence” says: “Our society is emotionally ignorant”, and I agree. If we provided our children with a simple understanding about painful emotions -what they were, how they worked, and the secret of releasing them, they could have a way of controlling their hurtful emotions. Because of ignorance however, by default, people do hurtful things to others, themselves, and to animals and they do it for this simple reason: It helps temporarily reduce the intensity of their stored up (emotional) hurts. Hurt, a mixture of anger and grief, that feels like it will never go away is a powerful motivator for relief. The temporary relief of such pain, that alcohol and drugs provide, is making them ever more attractive to younger children. I propose we make a commitment to teach our children a basic understanding about the key emotion of anger (my specialty). To do so, would empower them to be able to say NO to the temporary relief of misplaced revenge and to drugs and alcohol as well.

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