Marlena Pikulinska – St. John’s U. - What made you want to take the 6 week course?
- To be more understanding
- To learn how to get my point across without arguing
- To learn how to express loving feelings
- To learn how to love myself
- To help me be more aware of what kind of relationships I want with people
- To be more trusting
- To help me be more patient with people
- To be more open and comfortable with new relationships
- To help make me more understanding of my own actions
- Gave me hope that others love me
What did you get out of the course?
I feel like this course helped me strengthen my relationships with my family and friends. Also, it helped me to be more patient and understanding. I know that it is from THDC that I gained the proper tools to be able to communicate better. This was especially helpful when my ex-best friend wanted to talk things out. I was able to put my pride aside and we had a great conversation. Now, we are working on our friendship and it feels like the whole year of not speaking was unnecessary and fortunately just a minor setback.
Colleen Benis – What did you get out of the course?
- Made me love myself more
- More aware of what I want from other people
- Realize I can have more control over my life
- Gave me hope that others love me
- "gave me power to change situations"
- Hope
- Experience less Pain
- Made me happier
- Allowed me to approach relationships in a different way
Elizabeth DeHaan – What did you get out of the course?
- Made me more aware of myself.
- Changed how I approach situations
- More aware of what I want from my life
- Helped me to understand what I shouldn't accept
- Strengthened relationships
- Helped me to appreciate the positive relationships in my life
- Allowed me to see other people's perspectives
- Made me realize that life is a changing process
- Changed the way I communicate
- Helped me deal with pain
Erica Oden
I chose the self-talk option; I talk to myself a lot and these are actual things I have discussed. My subconscious is the bold, and my conscious is in italics. The proper way to respond to my negative self-talk is in blue.