Printable teens

They grow up so quick...

2024.05.14 17:57 Guyblin They grow up so quick...

Luckily, if you have a 3D scanner (a Revopoint RANGE2 in this case) and a resin printer (a REALLY old original Anycubic Photon) you can always shrink them down again!
Being a moody almost-teen she didn't want to stop listening to her music to help me test the scanner, so I let her keep the cans on. I thought they'd potentially ruin the scan, but they actually came out great, as did the hair, considering I didn't treat it at all.
She was pleased to get her mini-me anyway.
(N.B. Data is almost raw mesh - did a little localised smoothing on the front of the jeans and tidied up a bit of the hair to make sure it was printable, but the scan was actually pretty good straight out of the scanner, especially for a body scan.)
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2024.05.02 09:03 oh-no-ho Bass tabs for nashimoto-p Songs?

Looking for bass tabs for anyone of these songs. (Ideally printables.)
Wanting to Die in my Teens Wanting to Kill in my Twenties, AaaAaaaAa, Enko Shoujo, The Hideous Me behind the Mirror, and Shinitagari (you wanna die?)

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2024.04.24 00:00 CatWatt April 23rd Special Days - Featuring Reading Freebies!

April 23rd is... National Read Me Day
-- Book'em, a local children's literacy organization, celebrated its annual Read Me Day. Read Me Day is Book'em's annual celebration of the importance and fun of reading. In 2006, Book'em joined forces with Reading Is Fundamental (RIF), the largest children's literacy organization in the United States. Today, Book'em administers the RIF program in 17 Title I Metro Nashville elementary schools and is working to be able to serve more schools in the future. The RIF program serves over 4,000 children a year through a network of more than 275 volunteers, distributing 18,000+ books annually.

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2024.04.20 17:44 TaxBaby16 Journal for diagnosing

We’re certain we have this from our own research (my teen). Where can I find a good printable journal with blood pressure deets included for a sceptical Pediatrician to look at? I just want to present a good enough case that he’ll book some real testing From Canada where healthcare is what it is!

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2024.04.19 23:47 DavidLurkingOnReddit The Ponzi Papers - An Online Manifesto written by M. Crosby, a man who ignited himself outside of the Trump trials

The Ponzi Papers - An Online Manifesto written by M. Crosby, a man who ignited himself outside of the Trump trials

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M. CROSBY APR 19, 2024
331 My name is Max Azzarello, and I am an investigative researcher who has set himself on fire outside of the Trump trial in Manhattan.
This extreme act of protest is to draw attention to an urgent and important discovery:
We are victims of a totalitarian con, and our own government (along with many of their allies) is about to hit us with an apocalyptic fascist world coup.
These claims sound like fantastical conspiracy theory, but they are not. They are proof of conspiracy. If you investigate this mountain of research, you will prove them too. If you learn a great deal about Ponzi schemes, you will discover that our life is a lie. If you follow this story and the links below, you will discover the rotten truth of ‘post-truth America’. You will learn the scariest and stupidest story in world history. And you will realize that we are all in a desperate state of emergency that requires your action.
To my friends and family, witnesses and first responders, I deeply apologize for inflicting this pain upon you. But I assure you it is a drop in the bucket compared to what our government intends to inflict.
Because these words are true, this is an act of revolution.

Last March, a billionaire named Peter Thiel started a bank run on Silicon Valley Bank. I knew enough about Thiel that I found this incredibly suspicious: My hunch was that this was intentional, though I couldn’t fathom why.
I began investigating online, and quickly found cryptocurrency’s fingerprints all over it. The bank run occurred just days after Silvergate Bank – which catered almost exclusively to crypto companies – collapsed. Meanwhile, several crypto cheerleaders were all over financial media warning of a regional banking crisis, and nobody in media was addressing the clear crypto connections.
I dug deep into the financials of Thiel’s venture capital firm Founders Fund and eventually uncovered the following, all proven many times over.
Cryptocurrency is our first planetary multi-trillion-dollar Ponzi scheme. It was expressly created for this purpose by a laundry list of rich and powerful people out of Stanford/Silicon Valley and Harvard/Facebook. The March 2023 bank failures were all intentional: the banks were used to move out stolen Ponzi money. This signals that they’re no longer dumping cash in to keep the cryptocurrency Ponzi afloat, and that it will soon go insolvent, as all Ponzis must. When the Ponzi scheme goes insolvent, it will take down half the stock market with it: The perpetrators used their major companies to pipe into the blockchain so they could funnel money out from the crypto exchanges. This includes Google, Tesla, Apple, PayPal, Facebook, Disney, Walmart, Target, InBev, Zoom, and countless others. It is a Ponzi scheme so large that it created global inflation, which is why the price of Bitcoin has been a remarkable leading indicator for inflation rates. Victims who bought crypto don’t realize their money has already been stolen, so the money gets double-counted by the victims and the criminals who stole it. As it turns out, our elites are awash in Ponzi schemes. Stanford’s StartX.com investment fund and Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Program for Evolutionary Dynamics’ he ran at Harvard are both fake-science Ponzi factories that these schools have invested billions in: They are filled with fraudulent companies that use smoke and mirrors to promise miraculous new technology, but always collapse while the perpetrators only get richer.

Funneling trillions of dollars in stolen cash through the stock market created the largest stock-market anomaly in history. The stock chart signature of a Ponzi scheme is a massive increase (while they stack up cash) and then a massive fall (as they funnel out the stolen cash). This chart shape appeared in all the companies listed above. In order to explain the massive anomaly, our criminal government unleashed COVID on the world and told us these were the “stay at home stocks.”

Ponzi schemes are vicious beasts, and cryptocurrency is history’s largest Ponzi by orders of magnitude. It could best be described as an economic doomsday device, intentionally made to shatter the world economy.
The U.S. government is fully involved in this totalitarian con: To illustrate its bipartisan support, I’ll note that nearly every participant of the Clinton Global Initiative has ties to cryptocurrency, while two of the biggest tech VCs who participated are Trump associates Josh Kushner and Anthony Scaramucci.
To better understand our form of government, I will point you to one of the most astonishing pieces of stand-alone evidence I’ve found: Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton’s 1988 DNC speech where he nominated Mike Dukakis for president against George H.W. Bush. The speech is a vile, mean-spirited roast of Dukakis that makes no sense whatsoever: For Clinton to ruthlessly attack a member of his own party should have been political suicide, and he repeatedly mocks Dukakis’ noble and earnest qualities.
Notably, actor Rob Lowe, who was supporting Dukakis, was victim of a teen sex blackmail operation at the DNC that year. Since we know Clinton is a close associate with teen sex blackmail artist Jeffrey Epstein, we can suddenly make perfect sense of the nonsensical speech by applying this lens: Bill Clinton is a cocky mob boss who blackmailed Mike Dukakis because Dukakis thought his job was to help the public. He teases out the future public revelation that Kitty Dukakis drank rubbing alcohol, and offers a strange anecdote about the crack epidemic that reveals he is an exceedingly proud drug runner.
What does this revelation tell us? That our government is conning us completely. That Bill Clinton was secretly on (former CIA Director) George H.W. Bush’s side, and that the Democrat vs. Republican division has been entirely manufactured ever since: Clinton is with Bush; Gore is with Bush; Trump is with Hillary, and so on. When they present themselves in public, they are acting as characters that are against one another, practicing kayfabe as wrestlers do.
As it turns out, we have a secret kleptocracy: Both parties are run by financial criminals whose only goals are to divide, deceive, and bleed us dry. They divide the public against itself and blame the other party while everything gets worse and more expensive and handful of people take all the money.
Since it is fully parasitic, a secret kleptocracy is an incredibly unstable form of government – left to its own devices, it can only lead to fascism or failed state.

One of the key findings of this research is that Harvard University is one of the largest organized crime fronts in history, which is how they churn out billionaires – it’s a major hub of this sprawling criminal network.
As it turns out, dozens of the writers of The Simpsons went to Harvard. So I asked myself the question: If The Simpsons served the interests of organized crime, how would it do so?
Well, it offers a dysfunctional family suffering from moral decay, a community incapable of solving its problems, a worker drone who slaves away for an evil billionaire, and cathartic laughs for our poor collective circumstances.
There are some notable specifics as it relates to this research, too: In Marge vs. The Monorail, the townsfolk are too oafish and divided to invest in the town’s needs (fix Main Street) and fall for the charms of a dazzling showman with a bogus monorail Ponzi scheme. When we know that the show is closely linked to an organization that invests billions of dollars in Ponzi factories, this becomes quite damning.
In Lisa the Iconoclast, Lisa discovers that town founder Jebediah Springfield was a secret criminal con artist, and that the townsfolk’s lives are a lie. Realizing this is an important discovery, she desperately tries to get the townsfolk to listen to her. But they meet her with hostility, apathy, disbelief, and partisanship and she fails to get through to them. Ultimately, she realizes the town is so far gone that perhaps it’s better for them to be lied to by con artists, and she keeps the secret to herself.
And here I’ve been, like Lisa Simpson, desperately trying to get friends, family, and the public to believe the proof of a totalitarian con I’m trying to show them, and they’ve turned away with hostility, apathy, disbelief, and partisanship.
And so, we realize the criminal truth of The Simpsons: Our elites are telling us that our eroding collective circumstances are our own fault, and we can’t do anything about it, while they steal the American Dream from us. It is, for lack of a more elegant word, brainwashing.
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Lastly, we string these major discoveries together: Cryptocurrency is an economic doomsday device; our government is a secret kleptocracy; The Simpsons exists to brainwash us. From there, the only research we need is critical thinking and we’re able to piece together the true story of our circumstances.
Consider America since 1988: Institutions like healthcare and universities have become parasitic in their skyrocketing prices. News media tells us to be angry and tribalized. Daytime television warns us of moral decay. Local news tell us to fear our neighbors. The Simpsons tells us we’re too oafish and divided to save the American Dream. Seinfeld tells us to celebrate the assholes and be irritated by all the normal people around us. “Reality” TV tells us that real life is filled with hedonism and strife.
Social media, owned by crypto criminals like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, is flooded with nonsense conspiracy theories and memes reminding us that we are hopeless, helpless, anxious, depressed, ironic, scared, apathetic, escapist, lonely, misguided, and jaded, telling us we can’t do anything but have a laugh at our circumstances.
Liberals mock the hypocrisy of conservatives; conservatives mock the hypocrisy of liberals, and our collective circumstances erode. The left shouts “All Cops Are Bastards,” which ensures they’ll be hated by the police and the public (and flies in the face of leftist theory). The public’s distrust of the government is at an all-time high, but so is the belief that we are helpless to do anything about it.
And with all this, a sharp rise in apocalyptic messaging: Climate change will kill us all; COVID will kill us all; vaccines will kill us all; AI will kill us all – no matter the bubbles we ascribe to, we’re bombarded with existential crises with no solutions. We’ve seen a surge in apocalyptic film, literature, and video games that tell us there is no way out of our poor circumstances but total societal breakdown. Zombies tell us that the public is our enemy. If you go to your nearest convenience store, you can buy a can of water called “Liquid Death.”
This is our rotten farce: For our entire lives, we have been flooded with media designed to slowly steer us into a world where the American Dream was dead, where the public was fully divided against itself, where everybody believed we were powerless to do anything about our worsening circumstances. It is all so they can organize an unprecedented, apocalyptic rug pull on the entire populace as they pivot to fascism, which is perhaps best understood as kleptocracy at the barrel of a gun.
When we piece it all together, we understand the truth: We are in a totalitarian doomsday cult.
Why on earth would our elites do this? There are many reasons, but the simplest is because capitalism is unsustainable, and they knew it: Climate change and resource extraction would catch up eventually. So, they never intended to sustain it. They knew all along that they would gobble up all the wealth they could, and then yank the rug out from under us so they could pivot to a hellish fascist dystopia.
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Things escalated wildly in 1988 when former CIA Director George H.W. Bush got the White House, but this plan had been in action long prior:
Why is Stanley Kubrick’s comedy about mutually assured destruction called Dr. Strangelove: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb? Because he was a cocky secret fascist who was getting us to stop worrying and love the bomb. Why did he make A Clockwork Orange? So we’d rejoice at ultra-violence designed to desensitize us to the horrors of the world.
Why were the Manson Family murders crawling with cover-ups and intelligence agents? Because our government wanted to make us fear for our lives and believe that hippies are deranged psychopaths.
Why did Walt Disney produce a fraudulent documentary that told us Lemmings follow each other off cliffs? So we would believe it.
Why did The Beatles tell us to fear the taxman, to scoff at revolution, chase nonsense conspiracy theories, and that happiness is a warm gun? So we would believe it.
Why did Easy Rider tell us that the hippie movement was dead? So we would believe it.
Why did Chinatown end with defeatism in the face of massive corruption? So we would believe it.
Why did George Orwell tell us of a hellish future of totalitarian control that we are powerless to stop? So we would believe it.
Why did Wall Street tell us “greed is good”? So we would believe it.
Why did Do The Right Thing tell us we’re all racially tribalized? So we would believe it.
Why did Simpsons creator Matt Groening make a comic strip called Life in Hell? So we would believe it.
And on, and on, and on, and on. When it comes to any popular media, if you ask yourself the question, “Why would secret doomsday cult kleptocrats want the public to consume this?”, you will find your answers.
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This is obviously very bad news, but the biggest lie we’ve been told is that we are powerless. We’ve got one way out of hellworld, and that’s for the public to realize that we’ve been conned completely so we can build a united movement that shatters every lie they’ve told us, mocks this rotten farce as loudly as it deserves, and aims at nothing short of abolishing our criminal government so we can build one that serves the public.
To understand this story is to see right through the con, to become immune to the endless sea of criminal propaganda, and to feel the great joy and power that comes with freedom.
If a small number of people quickly put on these truth-colored glasses, we are in for an unimaginably bright future. If not, we get an apocalypse.
For more information, I’ve put together this booklet that includes other major findings and a map to a sea of proof, along with all the other essays on this site.
For the true history of America since the end of World War II, see here.
To see this discovery unfold in real-time, along with further explanations, hundreds of pieces of evidence not covered here, advice, inspiration, political theory, and the heart and soul of a man escaping history’s largest doomsday cult, see my Instagram story highlights. I apologize for leaving things so scattered, but this has been an exhausting affair. So long as you understand this (true) ideology, you will be able to learn the whole story.
Here is a federal lawsuit I filed against dozens of perpetrators of the cryptocurrency Ponzi – not for litigation, but just to preserve the information and attach my name to it. I was terrified and hadn’t slept in days and it shows, but it served its purpose of keeping myself alive long enough to keep learning and telling this story.
I no longer have my original research files from the crypto rabbit hole. If you want to see them, you’ll have to get my laptop back from the government. Ask them how they got it - it’s a very fun story.
I hope you know how powerful you are. I wish you a hell of a lot more than luck.
Max Azzarello
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2024.04.07 00:16 Learning1000 Flower Coloring Page for Kids and Teens 100 (Free PDF Printables)

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2024.03.14 04:24 XxLillianMoonchildxX Decided to make my own hyper-specific ED symptoms Bingo

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2024.02.21 19:29 DontIEPalone Executive Functioning Skills for Kids

I recently updated and reorganized all these articles:

What is Social Emotional Learning?
Processing Speed vs Processing Ability in Kids: Understanding the Difference
How to Recognize the Signs of Slow Processing Speed in Kids
Free Printable Chore Chart for Kids that is Skills-Based, not Age-Based.
Executive Functioning Game: Fantasy Football for Kids
50 Chores for Teenagers that Build Life Skills and Executive Functioning
10 Best Visual Timers for Kids for Home or Classroom
What is Executive Functioning?
What Are Executive Function skills? List of 75 Examples.
Beyond Checkers and Chess: 8 Unusual and Educational Board Games for Older Kids

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2024.02.20 18:53 DontIEPalone Executive Functioning

I just reworked all the Executive Functioning content on my site, and reorganized it. Thought I'd share in case someone can benefit from it.

Executive Functioning Skills for Kids

What is Social Emotional Learning?
Processing Speed vs Processing Ability in Kids: Understanding the Difference
How to Recognize the Signs of Slow Processing Speed in Kids
Free Printable Chore Chart for Kids that is Skills-Based, not Age-Based.
Executive Functioning Game: Fantasy Football for Kids
50 Chores for Teenagers that Build Life Skills and Executive Functioning
10 Best Visual Timers for Kids for Home or Classroom
What is Executive Functioning?
What Are Executive Function skills? List of 75 Examples.
Beyond Checkers and Chess: 8 Unusual and Educational Board Games for Older Kids

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2023.11.22 22:30 twizzle5234 Every kid this year want Bowie Beatles to play on crosewy 😊

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2023.11.07 16:22 swild89 MEGAPOST - Self Help Material

If you have any material you would like to add or want to report links not working please do not hesitate to reach out by comment/DM/modmail

SELF HELP MEGAPOST

edit - fixed broken link to 'assert yourself' (thank you diydsp)
edit - changed to a sticky post at top of the page for easy reference
edit - added the PTSD Recovery Program Treatment Manual (PDF), Interpersonal Effectiveness - Building Better Boundaries- PDF
edit - added clinician book, Mindfulness and Acceptance-Based Group Therapy (MAGT) for Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) by Jan E. Fleming, MD, FRCPC; Nancy L. Kocovski, PhD
edit - added 50 websites for counselors - 2018/4/25
edit - fixed broken link to Shyness/Social Anxiety NHS (thank you sephiroth_vg!), fixed another broken link Finding Balance - formerly Resilience 101, added additional booklet, MOODJUICE - Shyness & Social Anxiety, that I found after trying to find the fix for the broken link. Added Open Minded thinking workbook - 2018/7/16
Edit - Fixed a load of broken links to all materials from the Center for Clinical Interventions, added bipolar, assertive, body dysmorphia, health anxiety, perfectionism, procrastination, self-compassion, self-esteem - (thanks to u/buIIetbuIIet for the heads up) Also rechecked all links posted to make sure they were still working/current - 2018/8/19
edit - Fixed broken link "I've got to be Perfect.pdf", (thanks to u/sephiroth_vg for the notify!)
edit - fixed broken link "Mind Procrastination tools.pdf', (thanks again u/sephiroth_vg!) 2019/6/16
edit - fixed broken links for panic/ED, as well as removed some links to PDF's that no longer exist. 2020/1/17
edit - fixed broken link to Moodjuice Shyness/Social Anxiety page, (thank you u/juliette_allen.) 2020/3/20

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2023.11.07 04:17 swild89 MEGAPOST: SELF HELP MATERIAL

Hey everyone,
The self-help megapost is back back back again. Originally created by the founder of this subreddit, this self help material has helped SO many people, myself included. Special shout out to u/Plantsybud for recovering the original post after it was lost.
If you have any material you would like to add or want to report links not working please do not hesitate to reach out by comment/DM/modmail
Without further ado:
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SELF HELP MEGAPOST
DBT/CBT
Distress Tolerance : Facing your Feelings Workbooks - 4 PDF workbooks + 1 information sheet // Download all modules in this workbook at once, as a zip file.
Open Minded Thinking DBT Workbook- 90 pages (PDF)
Interpersonal Effectiveness - Building Better Boundaries- PDF
Self Harm - Self help Workbook from the NHS- 18 pages - PDF Leaflet from options
Finding Balance (formerly Resilience 101) Resilience, Understanding and Optimizing your Stress after deployment (workbook for veterans/service members)- 72 pages
PTSD Recovery Program Treatment Manual (PDF) (slow to load)
SELF COMPASSION
Emotion Regulation: Building Self Compassion Workbooks - 7 Modules + 1 information sheet // Download all modules in this workbook at once, as a zip file.
Just as I am -The practice of self-care and compassion. A guided journal to free yourself from self-criticism and feelings of low self-worth - 56 pages (PDF)
SELF ESTEEM
Emotion Regulation: Improving Self Esteem Workbooks - 9 Modules // [Download all modules in this workbook at once, as a zip file.] (http://www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/~/media/CCI/Consumer%20Modules/Improving%20Self-Esteem/Improving%20Self-Esteem.zip) // Download all worksheets for this module at once, as a zip file.
DEPRESSION
Back from the Bluez - Coping with depression - 9 Modules + 15 Information Sheets // Download all modules in this workbook at once, as a zip file. // Download all worksheets for this module at once, as a zip file. // Download all 15 information sheets in a zip file
Antidepressant Skills Workbook (PDF) - Available in English, French, Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified, Punjabi, Farsi and Vietnamese. Also available in English/French Audio formats
Dealing with Depression Workbook for Teens(PDF) - Printable/Writable English format, and French print
Managing Depression: A Self-help Skills Resource for Women Living With Depression During Pregnancy, After Delivery and Beyond (PDF)
Individual Therapy Manual for Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Depression (takes you to publisher site where you can download for free)
Antidepressant Skills at Work - 68 pages about dealing with depression in the workplace -also available in French and Audio versions! (PDF)
[Positive Coping for Health Conditions -112 pages (PDF)] (http://www.comh.ca/publications/resources/pub_pchc/PCHC%20Workbook.pdf)
ASSERTIVENESS
Emotion Regulation - Assert Yourself - 10 Modules // Download all modules in this workbook at once, as a zip file.
Assertiveness from Getselfhelp.co.uk- 7 pages PDF
PERFECTIONISM
Emotion Regulation: Perfectionism in Perspective Workbooks - 9 Modules + 6 information sheets // Download all modules in this workbook at once, as a zip file. // Download 6 information sheets about Perfectionism in a zip pack
I've got to be perfect! 32 pages PDF
PROCRASTINATION
Emotion Regulation: Put off Procrastination Workbooks - 7 Modules // Download all modules in this workbook at once, as a zip file. // Download Procrastination Cycle Worksheet PDF
Mind Tools Procrastination Workbook - 14 pages - PDF
Overcoming Procrastination - 45 pages - PDF
EATING DISORDER
Eating Disorders- Self Help from the NHS - 18 pages (PDF\ - select the eating disorder leaflet and then choose the A4 PDF to download)
Bulimia Self Help- 5 pages - from Getselfhelp.co.uk (PDF)
33 page booklet on Self help for Binge Eating (PDF)
Overcoming Disordered Eating - Part A +B - 9/9 Modules +36 information sheets, 3+ worksheets // Download all modules in workbook A at once, as a zip file. Download all modules in workbook B at once, as a zip file.
Download all Overcoming Disordered Eating Information Sheets, 36 sheets in a zip file
Body Dysmorphia - Building Body Acceptance: 7 Modules + 1 information sheet // Download all modules in this workbook at once, as a zip file.
BIPOLAR
Keeping Your Balance Workbooks - 8 Modules +21 Information sheets +21 worksheets // Download all modules in this workbook at once, as a zip file. // Download all worksheets for this module at once, as a zip file.// Download all 21 information sheets for bipolar in a zip file
ANGER
Moodjuice Workbook - Anger Problems - Online but prompts to send to printer
Emotion Regulation: Anger Management workbook - 38 pages (PDF)
ANXIETY / PANIC / WORRY
Social Anxiety Self Help Guide NHS- 30 pages (PDF)
MOODJUICE - Shyness & Social Anxiety - Download link at bottom of page-22 pages \ (PDF)
Shy No Longer - Coping with Social Anxiety - 12 Modules // Download all worksheets for this module at once, as a zip file.
Panic Stations - Coping with Panic Attacks - 12 Modules // Download all modules in this workbook at once, as a zip file. // Download all worksheets for this module at once, as a zip file.
What? Me Worry - Mastering your Worries - 10 Modules // Download all modules in this workbook at once, as a zip file. // Download all worksheets for this module at once, as a zip file.
Helping Health Anxiety Workbook - 9 Modules // Download all modules in this workbook at once, as a zip file.
ADDITIONAL LINKS TO HELPFUL SITES
A-Z of Resources from University of Leeds ( Extensive List of Mental Health links/pdfs/resources)
Self Help Leaflets / PDFS from the NHS (some are posted above and this is mirrored below for clinicians
The DBT-CBT Workbook: The Blog of Melanie Gordon Sheets, Ph.D., the author of the "Out-of-Control" DBT-CBT Recovery Workbook
The Mindful eating / Eating disorder link compilation (Some links already posted above)
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FOR CLINICIANS
50 Great Websites for Counselling Therapists
Mindfulness and Acceptance-Based Group Therapy (MAGT) for Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) -PDF
Additional Mental Health PDF's / Resources for Clinicians, Physicians, Mental Health Care Professionals
Center for Clinical Intervention Various PDF/Training Modules
Cognitive Behavioural Interpersonal Skills Manual- PDF
A Therapist’s Guide to Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy by Jeffrey A. Cully and Andra L. Teten -PDF
Self Help Leaflets / PDFS from the NHS
EDITS

edit - fixed broken link to 'assert yourself' (thank you diydsp)
edit - changed to a sticky post at top of the page for easy reference
edit - added the PTSD Recovery Program Treatment Manual (PDF), Interpersonal Effectiveness - Building Better Boundaries- PDF
edit - added clinician book, Mindfulness and Acceptance-Based Group Therapy (MAGT) for Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) by Jan E. Fleming, MD, FRCPC; Nancy L. Kocovski, PhD
edit - added 50 websites for counselors - 2018/4/25
edit - fixed broken link to Shyness/Social Anxiety NHS (thank you sephiroth_vg!), fixed another broken link Finding Balance - formerly Resilience 101, added additional booklet, MOODJUICE - Shyness & Social Anxiety, that I found after trying to find the fix for the broken link. Added Open Minded thinking workbook - 2018/7/16
Edit - Fixed a load of broken links to all materials from the Center for Clinical Interventions, added bipolar, assertive, body dysmorphia, health anxiety, perfectionism, procrastination, self-compassion, self-esteem - (thanks to u/buIIetbuIIet for the heads up) Also rechecked all links posted to make sure they were still working/current - 2018/8/19
edit - Fixed broken link "I've got to be Perfect.pdf", (thanks to u/sephiroth_vg for the notify!)
edit - fixed broken link "Mind Procrastination tools.pdf', (thanks again u/sephiroth_vg!) 2019/6/16
edit - fixed broken links for panic/ED, as well as removed some links to PDF's that no longer exist. 2020/1/17
edit - fixed broken link to Moodjuice Shyness/Social Anxiety page, (thank you u/juliette_allen.) 2020/3/20

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2023.11.07 04:15 swild89 MEGAPOST: SELF HELP MATERIAL

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SELF HELP MEGAPOST

edit - fixed broken link to 'assert yourself' (thank you diydsp)
edit - changed to a sticky post at top of the page for easy reference
edit - added the PTSD Recovery Program Treatment Manual (PDF), Interpersonal Effectiveness - Building Better Boundaries- PDF
edit - added clinician book, Mindfulness and Acceptance-Based Group Therapy (MAGT) for Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) by Jan E. Fleming, MD, FRCPC; Nancy L. Kocovski, PhD
edit - added 50 websites for counselors - 2018/4/25
edit - fixed broken link to Shyness/Social Anxiety NHS (thank you sephiroth_vg!), fixed another broken link Finding Balance - formerly Resilience 101, added additional booklet, MOODJUICE - Shyness & Social Anxiety, that I found after trying to find the fix for the broken link. Added Open Minded thinking workbook - 2018/7/16
Edit - Fixed a load of broken links to all materials from the Center for Clinical Interventions, added bipolar, assertive, body dysmorphia, health anxiety, perfectionism, procrastination, self-compassion, self-esteem - (thanks to u/buIIetbuIIet for the heads up) Also rechecked all links posted to make sure they were still working/current - 2018/8/19
edit - Fixed broken link "I've got to be Perfect.pdf", (thanks to u/sephiroth_vg for the notify!)
edit - fixed broken link "Mind Procrastination tools.pdf', (thanks again u/sephiroth_vg!) 2019/6/16
edit - fixed broken links for panic/ED, as well as removed some links to PDF's that no longer exist. 2020/1/17
edit - fixed broken link to Moodjuice Shyness/Social Anxiety page, (thank you u/juliette_allen.) 2020/3/20

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2023.10.10 04:34 Editor3457 [In progress][100k][Coming of Age][Fall of the Guardians II: The Book of Ericka]

Based on a true story. Book 1 gets published this Winter (unless the publisher pushed it back yet again...). Tells the same time frame, but from a very different perspective. If you are interested in reading more, let me know, we are looking for feedback.

Back Cover Blurb
Have you ever wondered what happens to the “difficult child” that gets sent away? They end up in the Troubled Teen Industry, a billion-dollar-a-year industry where throw-away teens are placed in a spider’s web of people and organizations that promise to help but are really only in it for the money.
Ericka was a member of the Church (cult) that ran the religious military program she was sent to. Even this status didn’t protect her from suffering horrid abuses at the hands of Church members – especially when she was targeted for being from the wrong sect of the church. Somewhere in all this horror, Ericka came of age as she became the founding leader of the Guardians, a special unit created to make life better for all the girls in her program.
Read about her successes and failures, how she learned to play the game as no one before her ever did, and her ultimate escape from this place as the Guardians fell.
Based on a true story, this book covers the same general time frame as the origional, but from an extremally different perspective. Includes a 2023 update on what happened to the girls and staff she wrote about over the ensuing years as well as several response letters from other program participants and an interview with the former Dean of Students.
This book is just as powerful and heart-wrenching book as the first, and it should be read by anyone who has ever been or known a “difficult” teen, anyone who attended a Troubled Teen program, and especially for any parent that has sent away a difficult child or is thinking that sending their child away is the best or only option.

A note to my readers
Looking at this book, you would think we got a great education in our program. Far from it. The truth is, I can’t really write. These are my stories, but I could never have written these out on my own, let alone put this book together. I could never have done the work to hide the church or protect my friends on my own. Even today, some 30 years after leaving, I struggle with expressing emotion. It was really my two co-authors and the interns turned my stories into something worth reading.
This book was written as a follow-on to my friend Vanessa’s book about her time on the Island of Troubled Teens. In this book, I tell a lot of the same events, but from a very different perspective. I think it's important to tell our stories. Knowing what some of us went through might help prevent other kids from having to endure the tortures we did.
As you read this book, I want you to know how hard it was to do. In these pages, I confess an awful lot of wrongs I did and serious mistakes I made. But I think you need to know where I screwed up to be able to see how high I was able to ﬂy. Most people never get to do that.
We changed the names, dates, locations, and other identifying details of every individual involved in this story. We took great care to hide the church involved, and anything we reasonably believed might lead back to the true identities of any individual or group the book talks about.
While I am sure a few people will ﬁgure out who we are and what our program was, we ask you to respect our privacy. The church (cult, really) won’t hesitate to use extreme violence against us, and we would all like to avoid that.
For these reasons, I present this book as a work of ﬁction informed by my personal experience.
~Ericka Brown~

Pictures
In this book, I have included as many pictures from the Island as I could. They are mostly the same pictures from Vanessa’s book, as those are really the only pictures any of us have. Vanessa inherited those pictures from a former staff member (I won’t spoil the surprise, but you can find out who in Chapter 17).
Nudity was a normal part of our everyday life on the Island, and that fact greatly limits the pictures I can show you. Most of the pictures we used in the books were just small corners of larger photos, though the punishment pictures in Chapter 2 are of an adult model Vanessa hired specifically for that.
With the exception of a single picture of Jess from when she was 4 years old, in both books we made a conscious choice not to include any pictures with faces in order to protect everyone’s anonymity.
Vanessa ran all of the pictures used in both books through an artistic pencil sketch filter to make them printable, but also because the effect is kind of cool.
Table of Contents
About the Author 1
Dedications 2
Thanks 3
A note to my readers 4
Pictures 6
Chapter 1: Beginnings 9
Chapter 2: The Island Handbook 27
Chapter 3: Life in Bunk 11 57
Chapter 4: The Littles 93
Chapter 5: Mr. S. 111
Chapter 6: Of Storms and
Changing Winds 127
Chapter 7: Of Training Wheels and
Big Kid Bikes 149
Chapter 8: Moving on up! 167
Chapter 9: Maintenance 191
Chapter 10: Regulations 209
Chapter 11: Gulliver 215
Chapter 12: Water, Water Everywhere 233
Chapter 13: Shifting Sands 245
Chapter 14: Miracles Do Happen,
The Golden Hour 263
Chapter 15: Fall of the Guardians 289
Chapter 16: Letters from Home 305
Chapter 17: Afterthoughts 331

Chapter 1:
Beginnings
My name is Ericka. I spent a lot of my teenage years in a religious military school for girls that promised to help troubled teens. Maybe you’ve read my friend Vanessa’s book about her time on the Island of troubled teens. Maybe you haven’t. Vanessa’s story was very unusual, and while I don’t think there’s such a thing as a normal story in the troubled teen industry, I think my story will give you a new perspective on what went on. Maybe my story will help you understand a little bit more about what we went through. As Vanessa is so fond of saying, no one ever asked to grow up, but you also can’t stop it.
I didn’t come from a good family. My mom was addicted to drugs my whole life, and we had a rocky relationship. Once I hit middle school, we fought all the time, over everything. I could do nothing right in her eyes. Since I couldn’t do anything right, I did what pissed her off. At least then she paid some attention to me. But that attention also made me really upset a lot.
My mom always had a new boyfriend, someone new to pay this month’s rent and score off of. Needless to say, I never got along with her guy of the month, especially when they thought they were my parent. I really resented that, even from the few nice ones. More often than not, the boyfriend just beat the shit out of me, though sometimes the boyfriend would buy me food, and then I would pretend to like him, at least while the food lasted.
I did OK in middle school, mostly because I had one teacher, Mrs. Bennet, that really cared. She was my homeroom teacher in both 7th and 8th grade, my science teacher all 3 years, and she taught the cooking class after school. These were also the only classes I really looked forward to.
Mrs. Bennet was way more than just a teacher. She was like finding a parent that actually cared. I am so grateful that she came into my life, you have no idea how much she did for me. Mrs. Bennet always let me stay late and do my homework in her room after school. She paid for my school breakfast every day. She brought lunch and snacks to school for me every day, and she would give me other things to help me survive, like my winter coat.
On the really bad days, she would even let me sleep in the coat closet of her class with a blanket and pillow she kept just for me. Sometimes she even excused me from other classes to let me sleep if I needed to. Most of the time, she was the only one I knew who actually cared about me. I latched onto her hard. She gave me a sense of belonging and joy I didn’t get from any other adult. In most ways, I was more attached to her than to anyone else in my life.
As you might expect, I screwed up a lot as a kid. It was all petty stuff we did at the local park – drinking, graffiti, trespassing after dark, fighting – the kind of trouble teenagers usually get into, but I would also con people for food, money, booze, or whatever else I needed, and that got me into a little more trouble than my friends.
Most of my cons involved me promising people things that I would never deliver. Sex, drugs, money. Whatever promises it took to get what I wanted—that was mostly food. Then, when the promises came due, I would just ghost them and find the next guy to con.
I got in enough petty trouble that the ADA in charge of youth crime knew me by name. Every time I got in trouble, Mrs. Bennet was the one helping me deal with it. She would help me whenever the police came around, and she convinced the ADA to drop things against me many times. More than once, she paid my fines out of her own pocket to keep me out of jail. But as Mrs. Bennet said, it’s not a good thing when the ADA knows you by name.
I didn’t deserve Mrs. Bennet. I know I was always a problem for her, but she never treated me like I was. I was always so ashamed and embarrassed when I got in trouble and made yet another problem for her. Sometimes I still wonder why she loved me, given all I put her through.
Then came the night of the fire. A few friends and I were drinking in an abandoned house instead of at the park we usually hung out at, and we accidentally set fire to the place. I woke up to flames and smoke all around us. The fire was so hot, it spread so quickly, we barely got out with our skin. Not only did we end up burning down the abandoned house, but the whole block. It wasn’t my cigarette (I don’t smoke), but I was the one that got caught running away. The next day, I learned that two elderly people died. I didn’t know them well, but I often saw them on my way to school. I felt so bad about it.
Where I grew up, you had juvenile detention, where kids were held before trial or for short stays for the little things, and then you had Juvenal Correction, the real jail for kids. Detention wasn’t so bad; I had done a few weeks in it once before when they arrested my mom and one of her boyfriends for dealing drugs. They hid the drugs in my room, so I went into detention for a while. Mrs. Bennet helped me with that too.
This time, I thought I would have to stay until my trial. Being in detention wasn’t good, but at least in detention, we had a predictable routine. We got showers every day and they fed us 3 meals a day. At home, I never knew if we had hot water, let alone soap and I was usually lucky to get fed at all.
Somehow, after only a few days in detention, Mrs. Bennet arranged for me to stay with her instead, pending court. I was so ecstatic to stay with Mrs. Bennet. That was a really good three months, even with summer school. We had a regular routine at her house. We made home-cooked meals every day, even on weekends. We even set the table for the meals. Mrs. Bennet read to me every night before bed, we prayed together, and she even did private religion classes for me at night.
We went to visit her church on the weekends. I really expected to be treated like white trash at her church, but because I was with her, they were very nice to me. They even gave me all new clothes so I would fit in with the other teens. My clothes were all ratty hand-me-downs or things I stole from the goodwill donation box. Nothing I had actually fit me. They gave me clothes that fit, that were not stained, and were even stylish. I was so grateful, it let me fit in. The kids at church were really nice to me. Sadie, my first church friend, even took me around and helped me make friends with all the other kids in youth group. I made a lot of real friends in youth group.
My public defender said that given my record and the evidence against me, we really didn’t have much of a chance at trial. I was being charged as an adult and facing 20 years to life in prison. This terrified me. That would be 7 years in Juvenile correction and at least another 13 years in the county jail. I couldn’t even comprehend what that meant. I was angry and frustrated. It hurts knowing that my parents didn’t want me and wouldn’t or couldn’t help.
The public defender managed to get me a deal with the ADA. 2 years in detention and then 5 years in correction. I would be free on my 22nd birthday to try and start my life over. Mrs. Bennet wasn’t allowed in for the court hearing, but my mom came for court. I had not seen her since the night of the fire. I was angry when I saw her. Why did she show up now? I wished Mrs. Bennet could be with me instead.
The judge in court looked familiar, but I couldn’t place him. For some reason, he took pity on me. He talked about how the Army and God had helped straighten him out and that he wanted to give me a chance to do the same. Then he talked about a program he had just learned about that morning, an option he said he would offer me instead of jail. It was a military school for girls run by a church that promised to help. He gave us the glossy brochure and gave us some time to look at it.
The pictures looked amazing. They showed a tropical island where the girls were all happy. It showed them riding horses, hiking, swimming, gardening, and doing other such things. It talked about all the job skills girls learned on the Island, like masonry and farming, and cooking. What caught the public defenders’ attention was the part about how my record would be cleared after completing my time. Not just this case, but all of my juvenile criminal records would be expunged – as if they never happened.
Then I noticed my name written on the back. It was Mrs. Bennet’s handwriting, written with her signature purple pen.
I looked closely at the little logo on the back. It looked a lot like the little logo on the church’s music sheets. I was so happy and relieved when I saw that. I would get to be with the church that gave me clothes, a social life, and that was helping me reinvent myself into a person I liked being. What could be better?
We went back in before the judge and I told him I would rather the youth program. The ADA objected, but the judge gave it to me anyway. I felt so smug, it was like telling the ADA to fuck off! We went down to probation and after a little while, the probation officer gave us a piece of paper with a date, time, and location.
For the next two weeks, I was allowed to stay with my mom. I would have rather stayed with Mrs. Bennet, but at least I got to be with Mrs. Bennet all day in summer school. Mrs. Bennet kept me in her class for most school periods and took me to dinner every night. She hugged me a lot during those weeks.
Mrs. Bennet told me that I was going to a program that was run by a sect of her church and that she pulled every string she had to get me into it and keep me out of jail, including pressuring the Judge, who was a member of the church. It then dawned on me where I saw him. I was so grateful for Mrs. Bennet.
That Saturday, Mrs. Bennet came to my house. She gave me a bible with her home address and phone number, as well as that of her church and Pastor written on the inside cover. Then she gave me a letter in a very fancy envelope addressed to “Sister Lisa” that she asked me to deliver for her. After a final hug from Mrs. Bennet, it was time to go. I was really sad and super upset about leaving her. The empty feeling inside of me leaving her was horrible. But at the same time, it was comforting knowing that she was still on my side.
My mom and uncle got into the car with me, and we drove many states away, all the way to a little airport in Arizona.
A man and a woman were waiting outside at the airport for me. I think it was more that I was leaving everything I had ever known, but I was so upset saying goodbye to my mom and uncle. The emotions were intense. But they let me say my very tearful goodbyes, then they took me into the airport.
Inside I was taken into a bathroom to be strip-searched. You get used to being strip-searched, but it’s never exactly comfortable, especially when you don’t know them. We were then given a change of clothes, basically white pajamas a little too big for me and made from a stiff fabric. Really wasn’t any different than Detention so far.
I was taken out to a sitting area with the 4 other girls, all wearing the same pajamas I was. Debbie (fifteen), Lori (fourteen), Alison (sixteen), and Mia (fifteen) were the other voluntary admits. They let me keep my bible and told me Sister Lisa would come over in a bit so I could deliver the letter. It was a relief to know I would be allowed to deliver the letter for Mrs. Bennet, I knew that was important to her.
After a few minutes, the woman in charge, Sister Lisa, came over. I was more than a little nervous. I immediately gave her the letter from Mrs. Bennet. After she read the letter, she asked me if I knew who Mrs. Bennet was. I told her she was my favorite teacher and that I had stayed with her for a while. She had this look of disbelief, then told me that I was lucky to have had her in my life like that and that it would be important for me to stay in touch with her. I was a little confused. Why didn’t Mrs. Bennet tell me she knew Sister Lisa? Why was Mrs. Bennet obviously so important to her?
Sister Lisa made an obvious effort to be warm and kind to us after that. She brought us all over brown bag lunches and juice boxes. She sat down and ate lunch with us, telling us a little about how flight and intake would work, and even what bunks we were assigned to. It was comforting to know what was going to happen, what to expect.
As we were the voluntary admits, we would be boarded last and seated in the front of the plane. She explained that while we would have to be handcuffed for the flight, we wouldn’t be chained to the seats like the other girls. I was both nervous and relieved to know we wouldn’t be chained to the seats. I hated being chained to the seat of the van in detention. At the same time, I was nervous that the other girls would be mad about it. In detention, you needed to make friends fast just to survive on the inside. Sister Lisa then had us use the bathroom before the other girls arrived.
I watched as the non-voluntary admits started to arrive. The first to arrive was Penny, escorted by two guys who looked like cops, one holding each elbow. Those two had bulletproof vests that said “YOUTH ESCORT AGENT” on them.
Penny was wearing a nightshirt, her hands cuffed behind her, and a gag was in her mouth. As we watched this, Sister Lisa told us that the non-voluntary admits were picked up without warning by the escorts very early in the morning and that any of them who resisted got restrained in whatever way was necessary. I could feel knots forming in my stomach as my jaw hit the floor. The goons then brought Penny over to the open area by the gate and made her stand there. In my brain, the thought that this was crazy, yet somehow this was normal to these people raced through my head over and over again!
All of the non-voluntary girls were brought in by escorts. A few of the escorts were dressed normally. Some of the escorts were dressed in cheap black G-man-type suits. As for the girls, they were all handcuffed and wearing pajamas or nightshirts or even just underwear. Some girls had their feet chained. A few others were gagged. One girl even had a bag over her head. It was scary, but I was also relieved that it wasn’t me. I kept my mouth shut because I didn’t want that to be me.
After the non-voluntaries were lined up, Sister Lisa called us voluntaries over. In total, I counted nineteen girls for the flight.
Then the tone completely changed. Sister Lisa wasn’t warm and kind anymore. She went over with them the same things she told us voluntaries, but her voice now had the same scary tone my gym teacher did. She then went on to talk about severe punishments for any and all non-compliance. It was more than a little jarring to see her change like that. I was on edge and terrified. How could she change like that? Could I still trust her anymore?
The non-voluntaries were then taken to the bathroom as us voluntaries looked at each other wide-eyed, trying to figure out what we had gotten ourselves into. My mind kept screaming that this was all a mistake and that I needed to get off this ride, but I was also too scared to do anything about it. After a few minutes, they started putting the non-voluntaries on the plane. Finally, we were boarded.
I sat next to Sister Lisa on the flight. I had such conflicting feelings about her. A little while after take-off, she even took off my handcuffs so I could read my bible during the several-hour flight. Not too long before we landed, Sister Lisa started telling me about Mrs. Bennet being a Deacon in the church, and how before her husband died and she became a schoolteacher, she was a Bishop, a really big shot nationally in the church, and still very well respected. She told me about some of the really big things Mrs. Bennet did for the church. I never would have guessed that my Mrs. Bennet had done so much before becoming a teacher. Clearly, I didn’t know Mrs. Bennet as well as I thought I did.
Sister Lisa said she had never seen this kind of recommendation for a girl in this program before, and that she didn’t know what it would mean for me. Then she pointed at a small dot of land. It was the Island. From the air, it was absolutely beautiful. I had the window seat, so I got to watch the Island grow out the window and see us land.
Sister Lisa had them offload everyone else, then put my cuffs back on before taking me out to join them all in the line. Then Sister Lisa said all the same things she did before putting us on the plane. Once that was done, we were all brought into the intake center, where they sat us on benches, locking our handcuffs to the metal rings on the long benches.
After a few minutes, Sister Lisa took me into another room, where they had cuffs on the wall. I had to be hosed off with salty water and deloused with that white powder, but at least they didn’t chain me to the wall.
Then Sister Lisa did a body cavity search. Body cavity searches are always upsetting. You get used to them, but they are always at least a little upsetting. Sometimes a body cavity search is really rough. Sometimes you get someone who is gentle and it’s not as bad. Sister Lisa was on the better end. It wasn’t the church welcome I hoped for, but really, it was no different than being processed into Detention, except she didn’t let me get dressed.
After that, I was taken to a cell. Intake had 16 cells, 8 on each side of the hallway. Each cell was 10x10, with a prison sink/toilet and two blankets. I was put by myself in the very last cell. Sister Lisa told me that while she knew I wasn’t on anything, the protocol was that every new girl had to go through the detox process, but that she would make it as easy on me as she could, and to just sit tight while everyone else went through processing. It sucked having to be in a cell like this, but at least I had my own cell and didn’t get stuck inside with someone detoxing hard.
Then I was left naked in the cell while she went back. The tears and screams of the girls going through processing was just terrifying. That was very different than what I saw in detention. The rest of the girls were so traumatized by the intake process that it was kind of unreal. I hid under the blankets, in the back corner of my cell. The visceral feeling in my stomach was intense. I just wanted to be home with Mrs. Bennet.
The cell right next to mine and the one directly across from mine never got filled. About an hour after the other girls finished going through processing, Sister Lisa came in with a maintenance guy, who had a mattress for me. He put the mattress in my cell, then the two of them put up a couple of big sheets so that my cell was a lot more private than the others. I was both relieved and grateful for my privacy. I was lucky and happy to have a corner to hide in.
Sister Lisa sat outside my cell and talked to me in very hushed tones. She said talking to me right now wasn’t allowed, but that she was bending the rules for me. We then spent about an hour talking. Sister Lisa told me a lot of stories about her own childhood. Sister Lisa even gave me a couple of sheets of paper with all of the things I would need to learn before being let out of the cell. Sister Lisa even did all of my intake forms with me so that I didn’t have to do them with other staff. This included family history, health history, and the psychological assessment. A lot of it was invasive, but Sister Lisa was so kind, it was like, OK.
Sister Lisa even gave me back my bible. I held on to that bible like you would hug your teddy bear. It was my only possession, my only connection to the outside world. I clung to it with my whole life.
I did as Sister Lisa told me to and I learned all of the commands by the end of the second day. She said no one had ever done that before, probably because they didn’t even start teaching them until day 4. I still had to stay in the cell until day 5, because that was protocol, and she couldn’t change that.
While we were in the cells, they brought us soup 3 times a day. Chicken broth in the morning, beef and vegetable soup in the afternoon, and tomato soup in the evening. It wasn’t good soup, but it wasn’t burned either. Sister Lisa brought me sandwiches every time she came to visit, which was usually 3 times a day. She would spend time talking to me, mostly about the bible passages we would read, and about Mrs. Bennet. I was grateful for the company, especially seeing the other girls not having it. I took a lot of comfort from the little routines we had.
While my time in the cell wasn’t bad, it was far worse for the other girls. Most of them were detoxing and they were not fed solid food like I was, so they all had diarrhea. While I had a mattress to sleep on, they only had a blanket on the cold concrete floor. With all the diarrhea, the place smelled like death, especially if I stuck my head out past the sheets.
On the morning of day 5, Sister Lisa took me to get a shower and my uniforms and then took me to Bunk 11, where I met my bunk parents, Sister Ava, and Brother Tom. I didn’t know what it was, but by the reactions of the girls and the bunk parents, something was definitely off. Sister Lisa then pulled the bunk parents aside, taking them down the hall and into one of the bunk parents’ rooms to talk.
Once Sister Lisa and the bunk parents were in the little room, all the other girls formed a circle around me. I was scared. Clementine, the bunk’s Level 7 girl, stood right in front of me, and I already knew we were going to fight. Two larger girls grabbed me from behind and Clementine grabbed my hair.
“Who’s ever seen a fucking pleb with clothes?” Clementine asked. “And a fucking book? Who the fuck does she think she is?” Clementine taunted as she took my bible from me, giving it to Nikki, the bunks Level 6 girl. Nikki walked over to the woodstove and opened it. A rage overcame me like I had never felt before. That book was my tie to Mrs. Bennet, and it was now my only possession. I screamed and lunged at her as she stood with my book at the opening, but the 3 girls held fast as I struggled with everything I had to get my bible.
I was seeing red, screaming, crying, and in an absolute rage! Sister Lisa came running out at the sounds of my scream and stepped out just in time to see Nikki throw my bible into the fire. I can’t even describe the anger in my soul seeing her throw my bible into the fire like that.
Sister Lisa backhanded Nikki so hard she knocked Nikki to the ground and then tried to get my bible out. The fire was too hot, the bible was already burning. Sister Lisa turned to Clementine, grabbed her by the throat, and screamed: “Do you know what you did?!?!” Sister Lisa screamed at the top of her lungs: “DO YOU HAVE ANY FUCKING IDEA WHAT YOU JUST DID?!?!?” punctuating each word with a really hard slap to Clementine’s face.
I was a little terrified seeing Sister Lisa like that, but I was glad it happened, glad for the revenge, glad they got what they deserved! Sister Lisa then ordered them both to report to the office, and to run. They both went running out. I was a little shocked at just how obedient they were. In detention, girls would have fought back.
I was in tears, more upset than I had ever been before. Sister Lisa turned to me and told me she was really sorry and that she was going to fix this, that she was going to make it right. Then, she looked at Bonnie, a Level 5 girl, but the highest-ranking girl left and told her to go tell Brother Sam what happened, and that she wanted both girls whipped, caged, and restarted at intake. After that, she was to ask Brother Sam to give her Sister Lisa’s personal bible and return with it. Sister Lisa told me that I was to hold on to and use her personal bible until she could properly fix it.
Sister Lisa then looked at the bunk parents and told them that not only was Bishop Bennet watching, but I was baptized and confirmed, a full-fledged member of the church. I did do those ceremonies with Mrs. Bennet, they weren’t that a big deal to me, but it made her so happy when I did them. But I guess it was a really big deal to everyone here.
Sister Ava and Brother Tom’s voices were alarmed, they wanted to know what that meant, what were they supposed to do, was I a Sister or a girl? Sister Lisa told them she didn’t know, that right now no one knows, but a meeting was happening with the Bishop that oversees the Island to figure it out. In the meantime, I was to do the program as a girl, but I was to be treated with the dignity of a full-fledged church member. They were to ensure that I wrote Bishop Bennet every mail run and another letter for every plane, without exception. She said those letters were to go to her to be sent out, not the usual channels.
Sister Lisa and I then talked for a bit. It took me a little while to calm down, but I eventually did. After I had calmed down, Sister Lisa told me to silently watch what goes on for the next week, and that I was to report to her every day after dinner. When Bonnie came back with the bible, Sister Lisa made a big deal about how this was her personal bible, a family heirloom, and how no one but me was to lay hands on it unless they wanted to face her wrath. This even made the bunk parents afraid to touch it.
I felt so honored that she would trust me with such a precious item and so thankful that she gave it to me. But I was also confused as to why she would give me, someone she barely knows, such a thing that was obviously so important to her? On the inside cover was a list of all the names of people who owned that bible. Mrs. Bennet’s signature was two spots above Sister Lisa’s name, and I started to understand.
Sister Lisa then showed me my bunk and hung my uniforms on my hanging rod for me. After that, I went with the rest of my bunk for breakfast, but it was clear that the other girls didn’t know what to think of all of this.

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2023.10.05 14:46 CatWatt October 5th Special Days - Featuring Kindness Freebies!

National Do Something Nice Day
- Do something nice day is a day to do something nice for someone. It doesn't matter how big or how small; doing something nice is good for both the giver and the receiver - heart and soul.

Free Printables, Coloring Pages, Activities, and Crafts:

✨ Recipe for kindness
✨ Teach Kids to Practice Kindness (30 Ideas + a Free Printable)
✨ 'Recipe for Kindness' Random Acts of Kindness Treat Bags
✨ Friendship and Kindness Activities
✨ 15 Nice Things Kids Can Do for Do Something Nice Day
✨ 100 Acts of Kindness for Kids
✨ Positive Emotions: A Worksheet
✨ Teaching Heart's Bucket Filling and Kindness Page!
✨ Get Kids Excited About Doing Good with a Kindness Coloring Page
✨ Free Printable tools for immediate acts of kindness
✨ Summer of Kindness: Printable Cards
✨ Purposeful Daily Acts of Kindness (30 Printable Idea Cards)
✨ FREE Kindness Printables for Kids and Adults
✨ Healthy Relationships Resource Kit - Western Health

Kindness Recipes:

✨ Author Rachael Bloome’s Edible Kindness Recipe
✨ Kindness Cookies
✨ Kindness Soup: A Delicious Healthy Soup
✨ Sprinkle Kindness Everywhere You Go Cookies
✨ Leslie's Random Acts of Kindness Casserole
✨ Kale them with Kindness or Chunky Choco Kale Chips
✨ Kindness Cookies

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✨ FREEBIE: Acts of Kindness Cards (ALL)
✨ August 23rd Special Days - Featuring Hug Freebies!
✨ September 1st Special Days - Featuring Random Acts of Kindness Freebies!
✨ September 9th Special Days - Featuring Care Bear Freebies!
✨ September 13th Special Days - Featuring Positivity Freebies!
✨ September 21st Special Days - Featuring Gratitude Freebies!
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2023.09.21 14:28 CatWatt September 21st Special Days - Featuring Gratitude Freebies!

September 21st is... World Gratitude Day
-- A time to celebrate your existence, passions, local heroes, relatives, friends, and all the little things that bring joy into your everyday existence. First celebrated in 1965, it was later officially adopted by the United Nations Meditation Group and is recognized each year as a day to show appreciation for all things, big and small.

Free Printables, Coloring Pages, Activities, and Crafts:

🦋 The Gratitude Journal: Prompts, PDFs and Worksheets
🦋 5 Beautiful Gratitude and Thanksgiving Wall Art Free Printables
🦋 Free Printable: Thanksgiving Gratitude Conversation Starters
🦋 Thank You and Gratitude Free Printables
🦋 Gratitude {Live Grateful!} Free Printable
🦋 A Gratitude Challenge {with free printables for you!}
🦋 13 Most Popular Gratitude Exercises and Activities
🦋 Gratitude Archives
🦋 20+ Free Year-Round Gratitude Printables for Kids
🦋 Thanks! A Strengths-Based Gratitude Curriculum for Tweens and Teens
🦋 My Gratitude Jar
🦋 10 Creative Gratitude Crafts for Big and Little Kids
🦋 Printable Gratitude Journal – Teach Beside Me
🦋 Gratitude Jar Free Printable Download
🦋 I'm Thankful: A Printable Gratitude Journal for Kids
🦋 Printable Thanksgiving Quotes
🦋 Gratitude Worksheet Chance to Chill
🦋 Free Tinyme Gratitude Printables

Gratitude Recipes:

🦋 Café Gratitude-Inspired Cauli, Kale and Sweet Potato Bowl
🦋 Gratitude Bowl
🦋 Gratitude Chicken and Celery Rice
🦋 Cafe Gratitude's Cashew Lemon Cheesecake
🦋 This Is Newport Beach's Hottest New Brunch Spot
🦋 Cooking With Gratitude HuffPost Life
🦋 Vegan + Gluten-free Chocolate Chip Cookies from Café Gratitude

More Free Printables, Coloring Pages, Activities, and Crafts:

🦋 January 2nd Special Days - Featuring 29+ Positive Postcard Freebies!
🦋 August 23rd Special Days - Featuring 28+ Hug Freebies!
🦋 September 13th Special Days - Featuring 20+ Positivity Freebies!
🦋 October 5th Special Days - Featuring 19+ Kindness Freebies!
🦋 FRUGAL TIP: Blessing Bags

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2023.09.21 03:41 l0_o Welcome (and Reddit rules)!

Hello and welcome! This group is for makers, STEM and everyone who builds DIY 3D-printed home robots!
The group's mission is to support, encourage, enable, facilitate, popularize and promote 3D-printable DIY home robots - along with their making, building, use and operation.

"Show-and-learn" this Reddit is!

The DOs:

Be nice, supportive, civilized, courteous, tolerant, respectful.
Learn
Ask questions to get help with your build.
Show off your makes, designs - 3D CAD, STL/3MF, electronics (motors, sensors, servos, etc.), software, firmware, ROS, Arduino and whatnot
- Relevant links to your designs are welcome, especially to open source designs, tutorials
Show off your robot in action, its character, its skills, mods, upgrades and mods
Post any relevant tutorials
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Relevant commercial posts may be OK (check with the moderator) but be sure to rate-limit such posts to once-a-month.

As a rule of thumb, whatever you post must be useful for this group's members. If your post is useful only for you, don't submit that post.

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No bullying, no personal attacks. Don't turn off people.
Please keep politics, region out
No NSFW - treat this Reddit like G-rated (general audience). Assume that teens will read it.

About the Moderator

My name is Ilia. My last name is too hard to pronounce, let alone spell out, so let me keep it abbreviated to an "O."
I build open-source home robots - and teach how to do that. I'm interested in advanced DIY home robots - those that:

map rooms, navigate automatically
have a character
have skills (like playing ball, hide-and-seek, chase, patrol the house, etc.)
AI-enabled, i.e., decide their actions largely by themselves (as opposed to RC-controlled)
The robots are DIY, 3D printed

Resources

Maker's pet website with hardware instructions, tutorials and open-source designs
A "3D Printed Home Robots" sister Facebook group
Kaia.ai website with software instructions, tutorials and open-source code
If you are curious about high-tech startups and think of founding one someday, follow REMAKE.AI. This is the startup behind Maker's Pet and Kaia.ai

Please follow me to learn and build your own home robot.
I hope you will enjoy being a part of this group!
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