Breathing

Her name is Katie. When I was younger, there was a girl in my first ballet class. Her name was Kaitlyn, and she suffered. She was always breathing so heavily through the class, and left crying. Her face was always pale, and her eyes tinted red. One day, she didn't come to class, and after that she was gone. I dance it part of her honor. Katie has a hard life, and a soft heart. She knows she's…

So how you feeling about last night,” I asked as we sat at a table. “It was cool,” she said as she bit into her sausage, egg, and cheese biscuit. “That’s it,” I said in an unsatisfying tone. “What else do you want me to say?” “Tell me your thoughts, anything.” “I mean it wasn’t as bad as I thought it was gonna be. I can see myself doing it for a while.” After she said that I laughed a little. “What’s so funny,” she asked. “You ain’t been exposed yet. The only reason it went…

Ravenna hits my shoulder. “Stop with such nonsense.” she chuckled. “You are always so serious. Loosen up and live a little.” She shoved me a red solo cup. “Drink up.” “What’s in it?” I questioned. “It’s alcohol. What else would it be? Juice.” she answered sarcastically. “I’ve never had alcohol before, nor have I’ve been invited to a party like this.” “Come on, drink it and you’ll become one of us.” she commanded as the other people in the gang joined in chanting “Drink it, drink it.” My…

“Cathy, that was nice of Heather to tell us about the new store, the prices are wonderful,” Betty said, exiting, the new CMC Department store, with her friend loaded with packages. “I grabbed a few items and could’ve spent the entire day in there. Could you imagine Louise shopping in there?” Cathy grinned sheepishly. “I’m afraid not, it just isn’t classy enough,” Betty answered with sarcasm. “We always have fun together. Take care and I’ll call later,” Cathy said, going to her car. “Call…

Previously I have used both breathing exercises and progressive muscle relaxation to fall asleep easier and attempt to relieve some stress. Before both attempts of these relaxation exercises, I was at yoga so my body was already very relaxed. Neither of the exercises were difficult for me but I struggle more with concentrating during PMR. In both sessions of the breathing exercises, I was able to get deeply into my headspace and feel free of stress or anything else. It really helped me focus…

The therapist should start this module by explaining why controlled breathing is important to Amy with simple and concrete examples. Such as: “ You know Amy, sometimes you may feel upset, nervous or angry, which is normal, we all feel in this way time to time. Today we are going to learn a magical way to help ourselves to calm down. You know what? When you can control your breathing, you will find that it much easier to control these bad feelings. Would like to try?” Then the therapist…

Schaie’s (Schaie & Willis, 2000) cognitive developmental theory emphasized the importance of new roles, needs, and responsibilities. Schaie and Willis (2000) describes that young adults are in the achieving stage of cognitive development. This is when an individual achieves their long term goals, by utilizing his/her intellectual skills, and carefully attending to the consequences of the problem-solving process (Broderick & Blewitt, 2015). The skills that young adults developed during their…

In the Novel Breathing Underwater by Alex Flinn, and Victim Blaming, adapted by CONNSACS, are both similar because they both mention that victims are often belittled and blamed for the abuse. In Breathing Underwater, Caitlin was constantly verbally abused by Nick and began to get physically abused. The novel reads, “You’ve been looking like a pig lately, and it shows” ( Flinn 183). Nick has belittled Caitlin and verbally abused her. He has controlled Caitlin into not letting anyone see her in a…

U.S. con living breathing document The constitution the oldest and most important document in american history. It is in control of our society today , makes laws, controls the people, our country. This document changes all the time because of people changing or things that happen. This document gives us our rights and can also take them away if needed. THis document is a living breathing document or called this because , of the changes that happen and the things it changes as our lives change…

We’ve all seen friends and families who have been in a controlling relationship and we all have tried to say something to them about or at least tried to help them leave the relationship or try to help them seek out advice to fix the relationship? “Breathing Underwater” tells a story of boy who controls his girlfriend in many different ways and even hits her. Controlling relationships deal damage on both people involved with it and sometimes the friends and families caught in the crossfire of…