Data Collection for Week Two
11-19-01
to 11-25-01
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Date: 11-20-01
Time: 8:45am I went to
pre-registration this morning, I normally get really upset when I have to
stand in line and because I had a class at 9:00am, but told myself calm down
and don’t freak out about it. I tried to tell myself that if I was going to
be late it was for a good reason, and not to worry too much about the notes
because I had a friend in the class.
I felt myself calm down and I was able to regulate my breathing that
made me feel even better. To my
surprise the line went really fast so I was out of there within 5 minutes and
had ample time to get to class. The
red bridge helped me to center my thoughts and focus on what I needed to do
instead of freaking out. |
Date: 11-23-01
Time: 4:00pm I went to work
today. I normally get really upset at the therapist that works with me,
because she asks me questions like I’m qualified therapist and asks me to
make assessments. Today she came into
work not really knowing what to do with the child we work with, I usually let
that get to me. But I decided to stop
my negative feelings before they started and took the initiative to begin
therapy since I’ve been working with the child more often. I didn’t have any negative frustrations
toward the therapist and we had a productive session with our client. |
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Date: 11-21-01
Time: 12:00pm I decided not
to go to school today, because I only had one class, I spent the majority of
the day pigging out with my sister and watching TV. I started get so mad at myself because I had wasted half the
day doing nothing, but before I allowed myself to get to the point of no
return, I took a step back. I
realized that I had been working really hard and deserved a day off. Resistance of negative thoughts, helped me
to cross the blue bridge and not let my emotions take hold of me. |
Date: 11-24-01
Time: 2:30pm Today was a
much harder day for me I allowed my spin cycle to take control of my
emotions. I had gotten into another fight with my boyfriend about the night
before and again we weren’t able to resolve the issue, we left each other on
bad terms. I started crying and
feeling tremendous amounts of rage and frustration. I eventually took a deep breath and implement the red bridge to
help move from impaired emotional thinking to intelligent emotional
thinking. I started saying a few
self-regulatory sentences to myself that help me to dissipate my spin cycle
and it helped me to patch things up with my boyfriend. |
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Date: 11-22-01
Time: 11:00am Today is
Thanksgiving, I decided to try my hand at baking a sweet potato pie with the
assistance of my grandmother. I
started to follow her instructions, but she started getting flustered and
irritated when I didn’t understand what she wanted me to do. She started getting snappy and on edge, I
would usually get upset and irritated but I told myself to thank her for
allowing me to take up her time to show me how to make a pie. Telling myself that wasn’t easy, stopped
me from having any negative thoughts about her behavior and it helped me to
appreciate what she was trying to teach me. |
Date: 11-25-01
Time: 8:30am Got up late I
almost forgot that I had to work. I
got to work and my clients hadn’t arrived yet, finally when I did see the car
pull up I noticed that the child was not with the mother. I knew something was wrong, normally this
would be the point where I would get defensive because the parents can be
very unpredictable and sometimes decides to make attacks on me. But instead my blue bridge kicked in and
told me to stop it and to be open to what she had to say. Come to find out the family had all
overslept and wasn’t able to catch me before I left my house, so she came
over to the site to apologize and get me some breakfast. It really paid off to not let my spin
cycle take over because it would have happened for no reason. |