I Didn’t Expect This!
A small confession, when I spent November 2024 discussing emotions, I didn’t realize how relevant it would become until weeks after the 2024 election.
Yes I knew there would be an election and I hoped for a smooth transition of power whoever won. But I didn’t expect the results. And when those results finally settled in after several weeks I realized that I had to continue the emotions series that I’d started because a lot of people were confronting emotions and didn’t know what to do with them.
The country was also highly divided with many people declaring on both sides, “if you voted for someone who disagrees with me, then get out of my life.”
And that is a terrifying prospect… because you have probably known that person longer than a US election.
Then we had two high stress family oriented holidays, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Lots of emotions there… lots of chaos and challenges, amid fragile memories and a somewhat toxic standard of perfection.
For those of you who were enjoying the Stories of Society series, I will get back to that series, and I think and hope that I will be able to loop our emotions lessons back into that.
A few other notes…I’m going to try to do more social media this year. I’m also going to try to get back to publishing more books.
So my blog posts here on Substack will be shorter and you might get an occasional post that shows up at a different time of the week as I try to build my Substack into a landing site for my other creative works.
A little about me:I’m first and foremost a storyteller. I write fiction on Amazon and Wattpad.
I have always followed my interests to create stories and that has lead to me having a wide variety of knowledge, so I never know what I’m going to be writing on.
I love history, both ancient and modern but I have a degree in criminal justice because my parents insisted I be practical. I have also ended up with certificates in counseling and dealing with trauma. That doesn’t license me to give counseling advice, but what it has done is help people understand how trauma works and affects people.
This is critical because trauma steals words. And words are how we communicate and connect with people.
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