Personal Narrative: Terry's Second Marriage

The focus of the therapy and primary problem then shifted to how the family 's coping mechanisms after the loss of Victor. The family has not spoken about his death or processed what happened to their family structure after he died. Due to this maladaptive dynamic, the family system has become restricted, and they are stuck at a stage where they cannot grow (Tobin, 2016a). Currently, it is necessary for each member to gain a more flexible role in the family but has not occurred because after the death; the family was not able to adapt to new roles. They have placed Victors old roles onto Pam and Pam has taken these roles on to keep the family at homeostasis. In the transcript, the parents mention that Victors role used to be to get Pam to complete her daily tasks, but now she refuses

Erin Geoffrey II, his father, a rich, prominent Brain Surgeon, married seven times. Devoted to long hours teaching students tarnished his marriages. Death do us part, was literally deleted in the wedding vows of his last three weddings. In addition temptation had caressed his dark side of life with flames of desire, want and need quite a lot, while the other side of his life demanded full attention with life-and-death decisions daily. Oh, don't get me wrong, Erin Geoffrey II was a grateful man who fought his way from poverty. The horrible disease of brain cancer had taken his mother to her death, dying at home in his arms; he was sixteen at the time. Erin's father was a truck driver, and he left 30 days after his wife’s death, never to return

On Monday 6/29/2015 Sgt. Alexander and I was dispatched to the Hostess House located at 6741 Highway 70 in reference to 2 subject, Mr. Burnette and Mr. Jacobs that were renting room 251 and had outstanding warrants.

Pam has been through hell and back throughout her life. Her courage is something admired by many. She raised three kids all on her own because of the divorce of a messy marriage. Pam gave everything

I have had many great mentors that have stood out in my life thus far, but I have one lady that really stands out. Her name is Tina; I know her better as Ms. Hicks. She is a kindergarten teacher and Glee Club director at the middle school I attended. I came to know her really well when I joined the Glee Club my sixth grade year. She is so selfless and always puts others before herself. I just began watching her one day and realized that I wanted to be just like her. I began to volunteer in her classroom the last period of the day because I want to be an elementary school teacher as well. I decided why not learn form the best. Throughout the year, I learned so much from her. She taught me that students can learn and have fun while they

My youth pastors Justin and Bob are people that I have always looked up to and wanted to be like. They worked for the middle school and high school groups so I spent a lot of time learning from them. I have gone on many trips with them such as backpacking in Yosemite, mission trips to Mexico, houseboating at the Sacramento Delta, and Snowboarding trips to Tahoe. They taught me so much from a young age about respect, and most importantly being a man of god. I feel like being around Justin and Bob as well as the rest of the church as helped keep me from getting into trouble and given me morals to live by. I still go to Carmel Presbyterian Church when I am visiting home and still really enjoy it even though I am back to sitting in the Sanctuary.

Initially, coming to Reynolds was not my original plan after graduating from Varina high school in 2015. At first, I wanted to continue my education at VCU and I did get accepted, but the money just was not right. When I realized that I did not have enough scholarships, grants, or money saved up to go VCU I had to make another decision, but I was in denial at the same time. VCU was my dream school growing up. Everything was just mapped out in my mind until my parents and I seen the tuition total to attend. I had no other choice, but to come to Reynolds. As I was debating on what was the best thing to do, my mom signed me up without telling me. When I found out I was filled up with a mix of emotion. I was scared, nervous, upset, and

One of the substance abuse interventions I recently led, resulted in a very public miraculous healing. I was contacted by the McCracken family early in 2015 to lead a last chance intervention for their son Jeff. Jeff McCracken was barely alive when we got him to treatment. Once he arrived at the facility we had in place, they immediately sent Jeff to the hospital. His medical condition was dire, he was given two months to live and sent to Hospice. In Hospice, Jeff’s parents requested our team to pray over him. Within days of that event, Jeff had an incredible turn around and was released from Hospice and entered a program. I sponsored Jeff throughout the recovery process. God has utterly transformed his life. Dubbed a modern day “Lazarus,”

So it is now Thursday and my work crew gets to go out which was pretty exciting. So like usual, we had prayer, morning chores and breakfast. Then we split up and went to the different worksites. We went to Ted and Theresa’s house. We were there to fix the ceiling in their daughter’s room. I started off helping with roof and stuff but then I saw an empty tank in the living room and soon realized something was in it and Carley got Ted to take it out to show me. It was a red bearded dragon, and I’ve never seen those before and I am a chicken sometimes so all I had planned to do was look at it and Ted was like here and put it into my hands so after that I was fine with holding it, quick way to get over something that might be scary. But I was holding it and sitting on the couch talking to him, Carley, and Theresa. Ted told me if the dragon got away that he’d be mad so I made sure I watched it while he went to another room. It started running so that’s when I grabbed it and put it away because I didn’t want to lose it. Throughout all the time I was talking to Theresa and really connecting with her. Carley told me that they have never been to community night and to try and

Pam is a thirty-seven year old customer service supervisor. She married her high school sweetheart; her best friend, their union lasted three years. Even though the relationship was over; it was the loss of the friendship that hurt the most for her. Feeling lost in the process as her marriage had dissolved, she felt lonely, and she realized even the strongest of relationships fail.

A drop of perspiration made a slow trek down my face as I carefully placed one foot in front of the other, each step taken with a precision a ballerina would envy. The scorching sun was directly behind me, its rays beaming directly through my shirt, making my venture more difficult than it usually was. I hadn’t had luck on my side so far today. The sky was bare of clouds, and no grain bin was tall enough to shade me from the sun. I wore my lucky red shirt specifically for this day. Yeah – I have a lucky shirt, what’re you laughing at? My usual crowd would consist of solely my brother, but today I had two sets of eyes on me. My brother’s, gazing up at me with his permanent look of wonder, and Sarah Crocker’s, her smirk extending beyond her lips

I am Timothy Edward Redmond Jr, I am a seventeen year old that lives in New Richmond, Ohio. I am currently in senior at New Richmond High School and is planning to graduate in May of 2017. I live a mobile home park called Lakeside Estates, which happens to be 5 minutes away from my school. I am a hardworking person that usually gets overlooked by most people. I try to help everyone in any way, even if it’s minor. I work at Spencer Park Aviary & Wildlife Center, which is a local charity organization on Front Street in the Village of New Richmond. We are currently building the park, but we have a few animals. There is a African spurred tortoise, 3 Fennec Foxes, pigs, other a few other animals currently. We plan to have Flemish Giant Rabbit,

My name’s Ray. Before Robbie moved into the neighbourhood, I didn’t have any friends at school. I was one of those kids who got bullied all the time, but not because we were nerds or anything. Every day, I would go to school, get to my locker, and put my stuff in. Mark’s locker was right next to mine. Mark was the bully who always kicked me around like a soccer ball. It was very convenient for him. He would get to his locker every morning a little after I would. Then, he would pound me. After school, he would do something else, like stuff me in a garbage can or something.

When reflecting upon their ideas about marriage, prior to actually being married, I noticed that Cindy’s outlook was positive. She knew she would be married one day and looked forward to it. Even though she was in a long-term romantic relationship prior to meeting John, that relationship wasn’t

I think I could say I have a pretty tight-knit family. Only immediate family though, like my mom and siblings. I grew up in Fairview Heights until I was five with a brother and two sisters. I was the youngest out of all of them and always got picked on, but as we all have grown up we get closer and closer.