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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Grace Hanadarko

Perhaps I am more of a TV junkie than I care to admit and another new show has me enthralled, "Saving Grace" It was probably more Holly Hunter that piqued my interest but Earl keeps me coming back for more. Check it out mondays on TNT at 10pm.

Grace just may be a real cop somewhere in Oklahoma City. And the largly forgotten bombing has left its mark and Grace is taking on lots of dearly held beliefs and taking them out for a spin. I enjoy iconoclasts and her character sure is that. Since the bombing, her faith was shaken to the core and the plots follow her trying to grasp the concept of the meaning of her own first name.

Combined with Al Gore's latest book "The Assault on Reason" and maybe there are more thoughts about what happens to the trauma assimilation of people in the rescue professions. Included in my list of the rescue professions are the obvious: police or law enforcement, firefighters, 1st responders, drs, nurses, therapists then there are the other professions which wrestle a large part with people and can be affected by the interactions. Since interacting with people can be very pleasurable and also conversly traumatizing, where is the updated manual for making sense out of both. Since it involves humans, it should be continually revised!! Al Gore's view and assimilation of the research on neuro-trauma leading to psyche trauma appears up to date and a good addition of knowledge to why people do what they do. Do we go into a rescue profession because we want to help people or rescue ourselves when others wouldn't or couldn't or both. I'll take both for 1000, Alex!.
It gives further contextual validity for the use of EMDR in traumatized people. I'm jazzed up about EMDR and the direction I am going in regards to my profession work and general understanding of people individually or as a collective.
Oh, yeah, and it works, too.!!

1 Comments:

  • At 3:21 PM, Blogger ShelleyL said…

    I too am drawn to the show and watch for the Earl appearances. It is a very interesting take on the human race and what we do to ourselves to feel and not feel all at the same time.How we want to save a nd protect and self destruct all within the same actions and reactions. Then have to come face to face as to what God may think of what we are doing to ourselves and fellow hum an beings.

     

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