crapstain: Yaay, Me!

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Yaay, Me!

Yes, I'm tooting my own horn. I was accepted a few days ago as a member of JDRF's ODST (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation's Online Diabetes Support Team)!!!! WHOO HOO! I'm so excited and nervous. The application process was a little nervous-making. I had to fill out an app, write a bio of why I think I know enough about type 1 diabetes to help the newly diagnosed, then answer sample questions. The questions were trickier than I thought they'd be and I literally bawled the entire time I spent answering them (about an hour and a half total). I wanted it to be JUST RIGHT, because I remember how it felt when Allie was first diagnosed. There is no way to describe it when your child's life (and your own) has been permanently and dangerously turned up-side-down. If I can help people through the extremely difficult and stressful time post-diagnosis, then my life means so much more.

Speaking of JDRF, we're approaching the annual Walk for a Cure! I will put Allie's team link up here soon so anyone who wants to donate can do so. Or you can join our team and help raise money. And you can walk with us on walk day out at Tempe Town Lake!

1 holla'd back:

Crazymamaof6 said...: that is AWESOME! you will be great! and you are totally into it! which is huge when doing that kind of thing! you rock!
it's so painful to remember those feelings and kind of relive them.
when i do the thyroid cancer support group stuff, it brings all those crappy memories back, and puts me into a funk that i didn't have at the time, i was surviving, i didn't have time to feel stressed about it, helping others kinda brings be out of my denial, i had to stop participating on the support group, it was too stressful for me.
so you rock doing that , wanting to help others , I'm sure you will be awesome at it!; Thursday, July 17, 2008

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The Enneagram

Type Seven in Brief

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Sevens are extroverted, optimistic, versatile, and spontaneous. Playful, high-spirited, and practical, they can also misapply their many talents, becoming over- extended, scattered, and undisciplined. They constantly seek new and exciting experiences, but can become distracted and exhausted by staying on the go. They typically have problems with impatience and impulsiveness. At their Best: they focus their talents on worthwhile goals, becoming appreciative, joyous, and satisfied.

We have named this personality type The Enthusiast because Sevens are enthusiastic about almost everything that catches their attention. They approach life with curiosity, optimism, and a sense of adventure, like “kids in a candy store” who look at the world in wide-eyed, rapt anticipation of all the good things they are about to experience. They are bold and vivacious, pursuing what they want in life with a cheerful determination. They have a quality best described by the Yiddish word “chutzpah”—a kind of brash “nerviness.”

Although Sevens are in the Thinking Center, this is not immediately apparent because they tend to be extremely practical and engaged in a multitude of projects at any given time. Their thinking is anticipatory: they foresee events and generate ideas “on the fly,” favoring activities that stimulate their minds—which in turn generate more things to do and think about. Sevens are not necessarily intellectual or studious by any standard definition, although they are often intelligent and can be widely read and highly verbal. Their minds move rapidly from one idea to the next, making Sevens gifted at brainstorming and synthesizing information. Sevens are exhilarated by the rush of ideas and by the pleasure of being spontaneous, preferring broad overviews and the excitement of the initial stages of the creative process to probing a single topic in depth.

Sevens are frequently endowed with quick, agile minds, and can be exceptionally fast learners. This is true both of their ability to absorb information (language, facts, and procedures) and their ability to learn new manual skills—they tend to have excellent mind-body coordination, and manual dexterity (typewriting, piano playing, tennis). All of this can combine to make a Seven into the quintessential "Renaissance person."

Ironically, Sevens' wide-ranging curiosity and ability to learn quickly can also create problems for them. Because they are able to pick up many different skills with relative ease, it becomes more difficult for them to decide what to do with themselves. As a result, they also do not always value their abilities as they would if they had to struggle to gain them. When Sevens are more balanced however, their versatility, curiosity, and ability to learn can lead them to extraordinary achievement.

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