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Mentoring Project for College Graduating Students
Transitions....very difficult times for me,
and others.
Date: 6/1/2009 12:42:37 PM ( 15 y ) ... viewed 1425 times
10:22 AM
June 1, 09
I am reflecting at a deep level
at the difficult time I had emotionally
at the major transition points in my life.
Grammar School to Junior High was
traumatic.
My mother was in the hospital for cancer
soon after we left the childhood neighborhood
in East Los Angeles. There was a six month period
when she was in the hospital. I did not see her
much. She was across town. Then she died.
Many of my childhood friends moved across town
as well. I sense we were late comers.
One of the most severe traumas was losing
one of my best friends from Grammar School.
We had some kind of a falling out. We continued
to go to the same schools through Junior High and
High School. He completely ignored me.
That was a devastating experience.
I did not feel much support during that time.
It was a tremendous collapse of the foundation
of my life, during a time when we moved
out of a garden setting with a very large backyard
to the new part of town.
The transition from Junior high to high school
was also difficult. My mother died during that
time. By the ninth grade, I was alone and
in suppressed grief.
Some time during the 10th Grade, I began to
develop some kind of paralysis in the hips,
nerve pain.
This worsened during my senior year
as I was about to graduate.
A few weeks after college began,
I was in the hospital and unable to walk.
Again transitioning from home base
of Junior College to UCLA, I went through trauma
and ended up on crutches. It was here
that Conventional Medicine was able to
diagnose my condition. I was on crutches
part of my year at UCLA.
The transition from UCLA TO Cal State Northridge
was not too difficult.
I was there three years. Then, I went though
severe trauma again toward the end of my
stay in college.
I was tossed out of the Teaching Credentials program
a month from the end of school.
I was really lost.
It was then I was shifted from the city to the country.
My first job was with DR. BERNARD JENSEN in Escondido.
There were major high points between these transitions
that saved my life. It would be good to reflect on those
as well.
I had a chance to experience one of the students here
yesterday who just graduated and seemed to be going
through some transition stress.
I want to help some of the college students find there
way into Green Jobs.
This would be a payback to the universe for a life
that has turned out very rich and rewarding,
and also had its difficult times.
Junior Hgh to High School was bad.
My mother died when I was 12 years old.
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