MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'confession'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:21:33 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4934754&cid=t_137200_136_f&fid=39016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fturquoisegates.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F06%2Fblue-has-never-been-bluer.html I think she's singing as if she were dead, safe at last in Jesus' arms. But to me the lyrics sing my life story. The life I've lived - the secret parts, the public parts, the painful and the joyful.All you saw was painAll you saw was rainBut you should see me nowMoments filled with tearsLasted all those yearsDisappeared somehowYou never said goodbyeOn your knees you cryYou're still asking why, butBlue has never been bluerTrue has never been truerHoney never tasted so sweetThere's a song in the breezeA million voices in praiseA rose has never smelled redderThe sun has never been brighterIf I could find the right words to sayIf you could look at my faceIf you could just see this placeYou wouldn't cry for me todayWhat you think you seeIsn't really meI'm already homeYou've got to lay it down'C... Turquoise Gates blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4934754 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:09:00 +0100 4934754 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4803448&cid=t_137200_136_f&fid=39016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fturquoisegates.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F05%2Ftruth-feel-praise.html Psalms is not a book I've always found inspiring. However, dissection - of anything, animal, plant, insect and word - happens to be my strong suit. When I heard this explanation of the lyrical form of the Psalms, I immediately started reading them.Face the truth of your situation. God never tells us to be perfect, to be nice and  pretend.Feel everything in the moment. I am the worst possible example of this phrase, numbing out instead. Search your heart, have the courage to feel and to be exposed.Praise God for Who He really is. All the powers of evil can't hold a candle to God's greatness.This is a practice for everyday Christian living, especially for those of us under emotional or spiritual fire. Face the truth, feel, then praise. Each point is key - without facing the truth we don... Turquoise Gates blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4803448 Tue, 10 May 2011 09:50:00 +0100 4803448 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4753796&cid=t_137200_113_f&fid=34603&url=http%3A%2F%2Fginasmith.typepad.com%2Fgina_on_gina%2F2011%2F04%2Fa-day-on-leo-laportes-twit-with-teambyte.html I had the best intentions. Leo, my old buddy and cohost from On Computers 1990s era, is of course now a celeb (and a cause celebre) to folks who know tech. He's got a network of amazing shows. I once again guested on This Week in Technology (TWiT) yesterday with two excellent folks (one of them an old colleague mine, too, the encyclopedic and ever-wise Patrick Norton of Revision 3.) But that was a lot of alpha broadcast personality for one room. You be the judge. Check out www.twit.tv.298  to check out the show, not sure video is up yet but it's coming. It's the one about the hole in the boat on fire : ) A couple of regrets. An active subset of my BYTE contributors -- I call them teamBYTE -- showed up in force in the TWiT chat. They did so because I asked for ... I'm Gina Smith blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4753796 Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:12:26 +0100 4753796 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4575098&cid=t_137200_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F03%2F11%2Fbest-of-our-blogs-march-11-2011%2F I have a confession to make. Last year, I did something crazy and unlike me. I participated in a comedy show called Penn & Teller’s Bullshit on Showtime. For someone as introverted as I am, it was one of the most scariest and embarrassing things I ever did. It’s not something I am especially excited to share. But I’m doing so for a reason. The subject of the show was affirmations. It questioned whether there was anything really beneficial to it or just another laughable practice best turned into a parody on Saturday Night Live. You know like Stuart Smalley’s, “Daily Affirmations?” Surprisingly, it’s not all, “I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it people like me.” There are actually real benefits to affirmatio... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4575098 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:37:29 +0100 4575098 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4560524&cid=t_137200_136_f&fid=39016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fturquoisegates.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F03%2Fseeing-through-lies.html I believe it is He that sends the snow crystals floating on the swirling winds, cascading into piles of glitter, transforming our world and lighting the nights with reflection. I can credit Him with that mystery.Fire. Where did that come from? Just like the breath of life from His lips into our nostrils, it's lit by His miracles. I stare at fire for hours. And think about Him. I credit Him with that mystery.The sun rises a flame every morning.And sets in red and gold every night. And though I've searched science and I know enough physics to understand the earth spinning around the sun, I can't come up with any other beginning than a creation. A miracle. That I credit to Him.I see the figures of the monks and the apostles and the theologians and the saints of old, marching timeless through ... Turquoise Gates blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4560524 Tue, 08 Mar 2011 11:03:00 +0100 4560524 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4560525&cid=t_137200_136_f&fid=39016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fturquoisegates.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F03%2Fawakening-to-love.html Long ago, something happened to me that I haven't talked about much since. I suffered child sexual abuse, like 3 out of every 5 American women, and 2 of every 5 men. Ill equipped at seven to understand the depth of the injury to my heart, I was a quick forgiver and a stuffer. I just took a stick and rammed all that ugliness, fear, pain, confusion, and desolation deep down, hiding it down in the dark depths of my soul. For a long time, no one broke through that shell. Again in college, someone took the knife of their own evil and pierced me through again. I was kidnapped and raped and - perhaps worse - participated in the prosecution of these men, undergoing a grueling 19 hour interrogation on the stand, forced to repeat details of the events in front of my parents and strangers. I was... Turquoise Gates blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4560525 Mon, 07 Mar 2011 19:46:00 +0100 4560525 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4455436&cid=t_137200_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FJzJ4l-XDkdE%2F everything with a pencil in my hand and a scrap of cheap paper on the table in front of me. This is how you do it, the books tell me. Beg all the words out onto a page. The cheap paper has thin blue lines on it to show me where to put the words. The mechanical pencil in my hand, almost forgotten, is chewed, even though Sister Michaella promised a real eraser to any girl who didn’t chew the end of her pencil shut. I beg myself and the words come, sometimes. They come so slowly that I am not sure if they are mine or someone else’s, those of a brighter girl who had her hand up before mine. And this writing of words that comes with thinking about what I have or have not done is peaceful, more peaceful than the day I lost myself all the way into the words and tapped the rhythms of them out... white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4455436 Wed, 09 Feb 2011 21:41:57 +0100 4455436 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3933116&cid=t_137200_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F09%2F03%2Fbest-of-our-blogs-september-3-2010%2F I have a confession to make. Sometimes late at night I’ll catch an infomercial or two. It’s a silly obsession I have. One that my husband can’t understand. But it’s not the products themselves that make me intrigued. I’m drawn to what it does to the people who use them. Wouldn’t it be great to make your life perfect with a blink of an eye, a swipe of a magic wand? I think that’s what makes me glued to the screen. There’s something so attractive about the belief that the right food, exercise equipment or program will somehow drastically change your life for the better. But then I turn the TV off. Because I know it’s Hollywood and I know that real life is filled with emotional storms, depression and difficulty. And that real lasting chang... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3933116 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:41:32 +0100 3933116 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3699547&cid=t_137200_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F06%2F25%2Fbest-of-our-blogs-june-25-2010%2F Well it’s here! We’re officially in the midst of summer. In fact, we’re almost at the end of June. July here we come! Yet, for some of us summer doesn’t automatically mean fun. There’s the oil spill, for example, the economy and everything else on the news. Added to that are our plain old daily concerns on everything from our weight to our empty wallets. Yes, we definitely need an extra boost to have fun as adults. It’s not just about ice-cream cones or playing in the sand anymore, but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible. If we have to work harder to have fun than so be it. We deserve to play as much as any kid out there! Even if you can’t get away this summer because the cost of a vacation is just too much for you this year, there’... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3699547 Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:41:48 +0100 3699547 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3629878&cid=t_137200_151_f&fid=35818&url=http%3A%2F%2Frecoveryissexy.com%2Fprinciples-of-the-12-steps%2F Recovery through the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous Sgt. Bill S., used a one word summary to describe the basic principle (as he saw it) behind each of the 12 Steps, when he was giving talks to military personnel about alcoholism at Lackland in San Antonio, Texas, during the 1950’s and later on in California. In the following, quoted from Sgt. Bill S., ‘On the Military Firing Line in the Alcoholism Treatment Program’, Chapter 18, “Recovery through the Twelve Steps” The twelve steps lead people through a necessary therapeutic sequence involving; insight, surrender, positive goals, introspection, confession, submission humility, amendment, restitution, reorganization, spirituality, and love The 12-Steps and principles are therefore; INSIGHT: We admitted we were pow... Recovery Is Sexy.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3629878 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:25:27 +0100 3629878 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3429416&cid=t_137200_136_f&fid=39016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fturquoisegates.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F03%2Fextraordinary.html Somewhere along the line I decided I was invincible. Oh, I admitted I would someday die, but until then...invincible. It was right around the time I had to face up to the fact that I would someday die. Around age 19. I felt the tautness of youth in my muscles, the energy propelled on by the drugs that kept my heart beating, the refusal to sleep for fear of wasting precious time. I remember wearing a shirt that bore the motto, "You can sleep when you're dead." And I truly believed it. Rest was for the weary, sleep was for the weak, reflection for the elderly.One day, once a year, I resurrect that spirit from the ashes. I rise early, pull on my oldest clothes, forgo my shower, and head outdoors, whatever the weather. My body coils and springs again as I chop wood. I lay down in the dirt, and... Turquoise Gates blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3429416 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:24:00 +0100 3429416 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3363711&cid=t_137200_113_f&fid=34603&url=http%3A%2F%2Fginasmith.typepad.com%2Fgina_on_gina%2F2010%2F03%2Fi-spent-the-last-week-in-mougin-near-nice-in-the-south-of-france.html Though I've been to Europe -- my family is in Yugoslavia and Germany -- France was a first. Here are some interesting things I noticed. - All the men wear hair products. Mousse, I think. Gel? - All the women have long hair down or in loose, messy buns. For once, I don't feel disheveled. - Everywhere, you are either hearing Cole Porter covers (usually Mel Torme) or Supertramp! - The people in the south of France are so totally friendly. This reminds me of the American South, where I grew up -- where it is considered rude not to greet a stranger, anyone and everyone, with a hearty Bonjour or Bon Soir! (When I moved to Boston from Florida, I said Good Morning to people on the street and they literally scattered. Probably assumed I was nuts. - There is a town named Mougin with ancient... I'm Gina Smith blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3363711 Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:33:24 +0100 3363711 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3254738&cid=t_137200_151_f&fid=35818&url=http%3A%2F%2Frecoveryissexy.com%2Fa-program-of-action-2%2F Action will untabgle the heart to recovery A.A.’s 12-Steps – A Program of Action A.A.’s Twelve Steps, which constitute its program of recovery, are in no way a statement of belief; they simply describe what the founding members did to get sober and stay sober. They contain no new ideas: surrender, self-inventory, confession to someone outside ourselves, and some form of prayer and meditation are concepts found in spiritual movements throughout the world for thousands of years. What the Steps do is frame these principles for the suffering alcoholic – sick, frightened, defiant, and grimly determined not to be told what to do or think or believe. The Steps offer a detailed plan of action: admit that alcohol has you beaten, clean up your own life, admit your faults do whatever... Recovery Is Sexy.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3254738 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:12:20 +0100 3254738 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3176130&cid=t_137200_151_f&fid=35818&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FRecoveryIsSexycom%2F%7E3%2FTf1Ojhr09Ac%2F Recovery through the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous Sgt. Bill S., used a one word summary to describe the basic principle (as he saw it) behind each of the 12 Steps, when he was giving talks to military personnel about alcoholism at Lackland in San Antonio, Texas, during the 1950’s and later on in California. In the [...] (Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com) Recovery Is Sexy.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3176130 Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:11:00 +0100 3176130 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3135582&cid=t_137200_113_f&fid=34603&url=http%3A%2F%2Fginasmith.typepad.com%2Fgina_on_gina%2F2009%2F12%2Fwhat-i-did-on-my-2000s-vacation.html Well, it was no vacation, but it sure was action-packed. In 2000, I founded a network computer company (NIC) with Larry Ellison, only to fold it three years later. I learned to play guitar. I became very ill and with the help of great doctors, survived.Spent a summer at the Iowa Writer's Workshop and finished half a novel. I blew every ligament in my left leg while skiing badly. Wrote two books (The Genomics Age and iWOZ) and got to watch my co-author, Steve Wozniak, on Dancing with the Stars. Got an essay published in a great book edited by Margo Perin, How I Learned to Cook. My mom died. I had a baby. Started a blog. I completed a graduate degree. Made some great friends. Lost one. Made some bad decisions and a great one: I went to work for t... I'm Gina Smith blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3135582 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:13:24 +0100 3135582 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3123524&cid=t_137200_151_f&fid=35818&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FRecoveryIsSexycom%2F%7E3%2F9Kh55pg-ebs%2F A.A.’s 12-Steps – A Program of Action A.A.’s Twelve Steps, which constitute its program of recovery, are in no way a statement of belief; they simply describe what the founding members did to get sober and stay sober. They contain no new ideas: surrender, self-inventory, confession to someone outside ourselves, and some form of prayer and meditation are concepts found in spiritual movements throughout the world for thousands of years. What the Steps do is frame these principles for the suffering alcoholic – sick, frightened, defiant, and grimly determined not to be told what to do or think or believe. The Steps offer a detailed plan of action: admit that alcohol has you beaten, clean up your own life, admit your faults and do whatever it takes to change them, maintain a rel... Recovery Is Sexy.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3123524 Fri, 25 Dec 2009 08:48:45 +0100 3123524 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3097029&cid=t_137200_136_f&fid=39016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fturquoisegates.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F12%2Fconfession.html We have believed, and yet you have helped our unbelief. I confess at times I have accused You of sleeping in the boat while the wind and the waves raged around us, but I know deep in my heart that You do not slumber or sleep. You have been ever watchful, ever mindful, and ever good. Thank You, Father, for keeping us in faith.~ from a father's Prayer for the Last Day of Chemotherapy for his young sonHere I sit, a cab drive away from the hospital, safe in a warm, dry Wi-Fi hotspot. Procrastinating. I should be hustling to write a paper that is overdue for the class I took an incomplete in this past semester. But cancer crowds out all productive, academic thought. Cancer brings you to your knees, in your heart. Makes you face your mortality. Makes you confront the idea that you really cannot ... Turquoise Gates blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3097029 Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:51:00 +0100 3097029 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2688730&cid=t_137200_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F08%2F11%2F7-ways-to-give-an-apology-4-ways-to-accept-one%2F When I was seven and preparing for my First Communion, we were expected to go to Confession first. Back in the sixties that was a scary prospect, involving a dark booth, hell’s fire and spilling your guts to a shadow behind a screen. The only thing my seven-year-old self could come up with to confess was the time I stole a fancy little brush from Joyce Weber, my friend from down the street. I coveted that pink and blue plastic brush. My mom had already marched me over to Joyce’s house to hand the brush back and apologize. What more penance could there possibly be? Seven ways to apologize: Don’t get defensive and be all, “I don’t have anything to apologize for!” Think about it. On your knees, groveling. Usually reserved for extreme transgressions like an affair... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2688730 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:00:59 +0100 2688730 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1739550&cid=t_137200_136_f&fid=36032&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.healthtalk.com%2Fbreast-cancer%2Flife-with-breast-cancer%2Flife-circumstances-that-distract-from-your-breast-cancer%2F Elizabeth Edwards has a lot to deal with these days. Her husband, in the past month, was exposed for having an affair, their presidential bid is definitely over and maybe his political career too. I wonder how much of this matters in the light of her dealing with metastasized breast cancer. If she is like most of us, breast cancer has taken a back seat to her family issues. I think the media has proven to be more sensitive in the way they are handling John Edward’s confession, perhaps in part because of Elizabeth’s condition. However, yesterday I heard a radio program where a comment was made about these political wives stupidly standing by their man for their own gain. Who thinks of this stuff? If you love someone enough to marry him, why is it so far-fetched that you would lo... Life with Breast Cancer blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1739550 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:34:35 +0100 1739550 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1676939&cid=t_137200_113_f&fid=34603&url=http%3A%2F%2Fginasmith.typepad.com%2Fgina_on_gina%2F2008%2F08%2Fi-think-youre-fat-esquire.html Click here for one of the funniest articles I've ever read. It's all about a movement called Radical Honesty. Excellent journalism. (Source: I'm Gina Smith) I'm Gina Smith blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1676939 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:17:45 +0100 1676939 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=780010&cid=t_137200_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F140666335%2F The confession that Dr. Karen McCarron made in a Peoria hospital in May of 2006 has been ruled admissable to use during her trial, the Peoria-Journal Star reports today. In the videotaped confession, McCarron is alleged to have said that she was overwhelmed, that she “wanted a life without autism,” and “wanted to take the autism out” of her three-year-old daughter, Katherine McCarron. Karen McCarron’s attorney, Marc Wolfe, had previously argued that the videotape, made while she was on suicide watch after overdosing on Tylenol, should not be shown because of her “questionable emotional state”; in May of this year, doctors ruled that she seemed “lucid.” Wolfe has also argued that showing McCarron’s taped confession would be a viol... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=780010 Sat, 04 Aug 2007 16:32:36 +0100 780010