Congratulations on launching "The Feel Good Life" newsletter! Your journey and vision are inspiring, and I'm sure many readers will benefit from the valuable content you plan to share. Your commitment to building a community in "The Feel Good Lab" is a fantastic idea. It's an opportunity for everyone to learn and grow together, fostering awareness and empathy. I look forward to following your journey and seeing how "The Feel Good Life" unfolds. Best of luck with your endeavours, and may your newsletter bring joy to your readers.
Thank you so much! Yes, I truly believe there's a lot of good work we can do. And spreading the knowledge through this project is a huge thing I've been wanting to bring for a long time! ❤️
Dr.Mariana, I’m a new (free but for briefly pre$ only) Subscriber from Austin, Texas, USA who is also has ‘no intended retirement plan’ in sight.
I have self-reinvented/refocused my main life-stages — all recalled with fond affection now — 8 different times, making me a genuine, professional, exploration entrepreneur.
I did get each biz fully established with paying, repeat clients, but to keep evolving found my avenue of business operations also best evolve.
At this point from 1963 well into 2024 — and now approaching my 85th year, I’ve been both a university + high-school teacher; a competitive sports coach (swimming/10 meter diving) of h.s. and university students; an established, systems-trained Family Therapist; a technology start-up founder in the Texas NASA area for young tech companies spinning off companies when the US Government wound no longer fund them without also creating products - profitable products they could also take to market in addition to ‘space exploration’ - which is a whole different story.
But before leaving the topic: you may be too young to recall TANG Orange Drink = a powder ideally originally for breakfast. That was one of our American popular ones, and yes, it went into space with the astronauts when fresh orange could not.
From that NASA related adventure as an early grad, I returned to grad school to emerge a bonafide Family Therapist working in offices with one wall constructed of a mirror my Family Therapy Team of also systems-trained family therapists were collected watching/hearing plus recording & analyzing our sessions.
Families knew the university was recording as we were also researching and essentially creating interventions for the very first time families with eating disorders. This was a new , universal illness and we had to go to California/New York and also Italy for our conferences to learn plus present on it. Later on we could also directly tap Brené Brown’s historic and my own University of Houston’s and University of Texas’s grad schools in Social Work and her Grounded Theory (GT.)
But in those earlier years we had Virginia Satir’s and Carl Roger’s stellar family constellation work - which was more the base of my formal & earlier education.
Out of that also grew free blogging, the ‘grandmother’ theoretically of now our Substack. Like you have discovered, such technology platforms also excel at creativity renewal PLUS the formation of lifelong friends, colleagues, patients and clients for some of us fortunate ones.
So I come to continuously learn and my hope is both of us continue to find this Substack medium/platform nourishing — partly and simply because it is also fun.
F.U.N.
Simply and purely. It is the newest blessing to spring from the Pen Pal days, I like to think as a child who learned to read, print, write and adore libraries and bookstores starting before kindergarten and increasingly so every decade since.
Hi Sherry! It's very nice to meet/read you. Thanks for being here! Sounds like a fascinating journey you've been through, all quite amazing.
And yes, I totally remember TANG! It was everywhere I guess, we grew up with it too. :) I couldn't agree more when you say how Substack is simply fun. I've been writing online since 2008 aprox and I agree that even though that was fun, Substack is bringing something else to the table. Being able to connect with writers and readers like this is just beyond anything. They make it easier! Definitely as lovely as those penpal days, I agree.
Thanks for sharing all this, what a lovely train of thought and personal experiences. Welcome to The Feel Good family!
Hugs and greetings from a little seaside town in Scotland. :)
Congratulations on launching "The Feel Good Life" newsletter! Your journey and vision are inspiring, and I'm sure many readers will benefit from the valuable content you plan to share. Your commitment to building a community in "The Feel Good Lab" is a fantastic idea. It's an opportunity for everyone to learn and grow together, fostering awareness and empathy. I look forward to following your journey and seeing how "The Feel Good Life" unfolds. Best of luck with your endeavours, and may your newsletter bring joy to your readers.
Thank you so much for your kind words!! Means a lot and yes, I'm indeed thrilled and ready! :D
you are welcome.
I didn’t know that your background was in palliative care—such important work!
So glad you’re bringing your perspective on health to Substack, and making these conversations more accessible.
Thank you so much! Yes, I truly believe there's a lot of good work we can do. And spreading the knowledge through this project is a huge thing I've been wanting to bring for a long time! ❤️
Dr.Mariana, I’m a new (free but for briefly pre$ only) Subscriber from Austin, Texas, USA who is also has ‘no intended retirement plan’ in sight.
I have self-reinvented/refocused my main life-stages — all recalled with fond affection now — 8 different times, making me a genuine, professional, exploration entrepreneur.
I did get each biz fully established with paying, repeat clients, but to keep evolving found my avenue of business operations also best evolve.
At this point from 1963 well into 2024 — and now approaching my 85th year, I’ve been both a university + high-school teacher; a competitive sports coach (swimming/10 meter diving) of h.s. and university students; an established, systems-trained Family Therapist; a technology start-up founder in the Texas NASA area for young tech companies spinning off companies when the US Government wound no longer fund them without also creating products - profitable products they could also take to market in addition to ‘space exploration’ - which is a whole different story.
But before leaving the topic: you may be too young to recall TANG Orange Drink = a powder ideally originally for breakfast. That was one of our American popular ones, and yes, it went into space with the astronauts when fresh orange could not.
From that NASA related adventure as an early grad, I returned to grad school to emerge a bonafide Family Therapist working in offices with one wall constructed of a mirror my Family Therapy Team of also systems-trained family therapists were collected watching/hearing plus recording & analyzing our sessions.
Families knew the university was recording as we were also researching and essentially creating interventions for the very first time families with eating disorders. This was a new , universal illness and we had to go to California/New York and also Italy for our conferences to learn plus present on it. Later on we could also directly tap Brené Brown’s historic and my own University of Houston’s and University of Texas’s grad schools in Social Work and her Grounded Theory (GT.)
But in those earlier years we had Virginia Satir’s and Carl Roger’s stellar family constellation work - which was more the base of my formal & earlier education.
Out of that also grew free blogging, the ‘grandmother’ theoretically of now our Substack. Like you have discovered, such technology platforms also excel at creativity renewal PLUS the formation of lifelong friends, colleagues, patients and clients for some of us fortunate ones.
So I come to continuously learn and my hope is both of us continue to find this Substack medium/platform nourishing — partly and simply because it is also fun.
F.U.N.
Simply and purely. It is the newest blessing to spring from the Pen Pal days, I like to think as a child who learned to read, print, write and adore libraries and bookstores starting before kindergarten and increasingly so every decade since.
SherryTx in Austin, Texas, USA
July 2024
Hi Sherry! It's very nice to meet/read you. Thanks for being here! Sounds like a fascinating journey you've been through, all quite amazing.
And yes, I totally remember TANG! It was everywhere I guess, we grew up with it too. :) I couldn't agree more when you say how Substack is simply fun. I've been writing online since 2008 aprox and I agree that even though that was fun, Substack is bringing something else to the table. Being able to connect with writers and readers like this is just beyond anything. They make it easier! Definitely as lovely as those penpal days, I agree.
Thanks for sharing all this, what a lovely train of thought and personal experiences. Welcome to The Feel Good family!
Hugs and greetings from a little seaside town in Scotland. :)
This all sounds wonderful. Looking forward to receiving my first few to see how it all rolls out.
Thank you! Super happy to have you on board! :)
I enjoyed the post and looking forward to future ones.
So glad! Thank you :)