Dear Cat:

I hope that Bristol is a New Beginning for you, that your life gets better and better. If you need help when living in Bristol, you can find quality psychotherapy there. Places of course, do not change our core beliefs, nor do they re-map our brains, calming the fight and flight response you mentioned. But places can help or hinder healing. Within the same city, the same neighborhood, there are places that help and places that hinder.

Thank you for your words of appreciation (#4).

I am rediscovering a bit of that optimism you mentioned, these very days, a bit of the looking-forward to things. Similar to Hunter the Beagle, all excited about what new smells await him in the yard. Optimism as in seeing good things that are not real, I have no intention of resuming there. So I am continuing to write off this kind of optimism as well as pessimism and see more and more of what is simply there, what is true to reality.

anita