JESSIE'S VEGAS

I remember when my brother in law, Todd Smith, was project manager working on the Gilbert, AZ temple. He had said he would have given his "big toe" to be involved in building a temple. His friends in the construction industry warned him that temples were notorious for construction headaches as everything had to be beyond perfect. Sure enough, during the process things were having to be redone over and over.They kept ripping stuff out cuz it wasn't perfect. Drywall, tile, and then when they did that to the absolutely stunning stairs that reminded me of the staircase from the "titanic", I was actually a little disgusted. "WHY all the focus on perfection when life on earth is SO far from perfect, I wondered?"We had been dealing with our health problems. Lauren with autism and psychosis, Alyssa with Tourette's and Syd was bordering on a catatonic state even as they were building the Gilbert temple. Anyhow, we were supposed to go on a special tour be

Isaiah 61:3 “ …to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair”  Sometimes I have dreams. Most of the time they are silly;exaggerated solutions to a stressful day. Occasionally they have meaning. These visions are mostly for myself, but other times the dream is  for a different person. When the latter circumstance appears, the images are vivid as I feel like I am watching a scene from someone else's life.  Years ago my first encounter with counseling was serendipitously with a Jungian psychologist. Carl Jung was a pioneer in the field of the subconscious and dreams. While I parted ways with the psychologist not long after our few sessions,our personalities did not mesh, I remain in gratitude for the materials and references she provided for me. In summary, from my study, I have surmissed that depth and Jungian psychology are involved in how the mind seeks to heal itself.  Similar to how

Back when ABA with one more B was a rock band, PANDAS were bears in a zoo and CHAD was simply my brother, my husband and I discovered we had girls on the spectrum.  Our oldest was 12 at the time and we had been told it was ADD(there was that diagnosis back then). We missed out on early interventions simply because it was too early for even the word ASPERGER'S to be floating around. That being said, we made huge steps forward after neuropsychological testing that showed areas of sensory deficits.  For our kids, any program that dealt with their sensory needs helped immensely.  It was worth a trip to a pediatric geneticist to look at that portion. Two of our kids had psychosis from seizures so the neurologist was helpful there.  One kid learned to drive after taking up swimming as the ability to use all limbs together in one activity was key. Another had tantrums quieted by equine therapy...though it was cheaper just to do horseback riding lessons so we did that and it still worked.