Just
Want to Be Heard?
A few years ago my mom and I started a brain injury support group for the
younger crowd, as there is a wonderful brain injury support group through one
of the local hospitals but the crowd is mainly older adults. The newly created
support group soon died out as all of the members went their separate ways (off
to separate colleges, getting married, having children, and so forth). Now, as
I am among the college crowd and young adults. I have found that many people,
brain injured or not, just want somebody to talk to. Granted I have had brain
injured people who enjoy talking to me because there is a commonality between
us, but I have also had all sorts of people talk to me just because they want
somebody to talk to and I totally enjoy listening. There are sometimes when my
friends just want to vent and really don't want me to say anything and although
that is hard for me (anyone who knows me understands that I have my two cents that
always seem to get put in somewhere). I can just listen. I think that at some
point I want to open a non-official practice where I just listen.
Right now I have no clue where to start with that
and I have a semester or two left of school (to earn my teaching license),
however I just want to note in my blog this fabulous idea that one day may come
to be.
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