Those Rascal Feelings &  Values
  • OVERVIEW: FRF
    • FRF: CHPT ONE
  • OVERVIEW: CLINICAL
    • TOC 1-12 >
      • CHPT 1 Welcome To Many From Many >
        • CHPT 1 Vault
      • CHPT 2 Aunt Sarah Shares >
        • CHPT 2 VAULT
      • CHPT 3 Lessons for Lisa >
        • Vault 3 Lessons for Lisa
      • CHPT 4 An Angry World >
        • Vault Four: Angry World
      • CHPT 5 Damn & Hot Damn >
        • Vault 5 Damn & Hot Damn
      • CHPT 6 Brain Bishop & Being >
        • Vault 6 The Bishop, The Brain & Being
      • CHPT 7 Little Steps >
        • Vault 7 Little Steps Go a Long Ways
      • CHPT 8 Conflict Moves You >
        • Vault 8. Conflict Moves; Conflicts Are.
      • CHPT 9 Valuing Values >
        • VAULT 9 Valuing Values
      • CHPT 10 John Deere Caper >
        • VAULT 10 John Deere Family Snafu
      • CHPT 11 Nothing is Here. >
        • VAULT # 11 Nothing is here.
      • CHPT 1 2 Antithesis for Nothing >
        • VAULT 12: Anathesisis for Nothing
    • TOC 13-25 >
      • Chpt 13: Choc. Chip Caper >
        • Vault 13 The Chocolate Chip Cookie Caper
      • Chpt 14: Couples / Pairs >
        • Vault 14 Couples Come in Pairs
      • CHPT 15 Plus & More >
        • Vault 15 Strengths in Action
      • Chpt: 16: Action Truisms >
        • Vault 16 Raportee With Nadi: Truisms in Action
      • Chapter 17 We all Hurt >
        • Vault 17 We all Hurt
      • CHPT 18 Parents Lead, + >
        • VAULT 18 PARENTS LEAD
      • CHPT 19 YOUR BRAIN KNOWS >
        • VAULT 19 YOUR BRAIN KNOWS
      • CHPT 20 Out & In: >
        • VAULT 20 Out & In:
      • CHPT 21 Where is Papa? >
        • VAULT 21 Where is Papa?
      • CHPT 22 Who Knows Bill? >
        • VAULT 22 Who Knows Bill?
      • Chpt: 23: Millenials >
        • Vault 23: Millential-Baby Boomers Clash
      • CHPT 24 Ending / Beginnings >
        • Vault 24 Endings/Beginnings
      • CHPT 25. Q's & A's >
        • Q & A Overview One
        • Q & A Overview Two
        • Q & A Overview Feelings
        • Q & A Overview Values
        • Q & A Overview Relationships
        • Q & A Overview Politics
        • Q & A Overview Parenting
        • Q & A's Reading Lists
      • FOR POTENTIAL EDITOR/READERS
      • Getting Outside Help

Table of Contents
Chapters: One-Twelve


Summary of  Book Chapters 1-12 

 

Chapter Summaries 
   

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# One: Welcome By Many To Many ​


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Aunt Sarah Siddle
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Lisa Lu
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Rev. Uncle Charlie
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Chat, A College Sophmore
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Ms. Alice Johnston
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Ms. Hailey
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Rhonda & Jimmie Upton
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Judy & John Bearister
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Rene Getty, Substance Abuse Counselor
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Tea, Tastes, & Tales Nadi McManus. Good Neighbor
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Rev. Dr. Stephanie Clements MSW & D.Div
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Kelly Sinclair, MSW

This Introductory chapter has many of the twenty-five key individuals or couples speaking directly to the readers about how they dealt with a thinking, feeling or valuing issue. ​

​To read Chapter One,
click on Bearley Bear.

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# Two: Aunt Sarah Shares
Presenters:
​Aunt Sarah. Nadi, Dr. D.

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Aunt Sarah Sidler
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Neighbor Nadi McManus
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Dr. D.

On her way from Vermont to California, Aunt Sarah doesn't feel well and stops in Colorado to visit her cousin, Dr. D. She meets Neighbor Nadi and others and gets health help. Information from the neurosciences of brain and mind structure/functioning with a focus on the cognitive, affective and behavioral mind domains are interwoven into the extensive dialogue.

To read Chapter Two,
click on Bearley Bear.

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Chapter Three: Lessons for Lisa

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Lisa Lu
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Kelly Sinclaire, MSW

Lisa Lu has a charmed life-marriage-kids-job-as she wanted until she developed extreme anxiety and couldn't leave the house. Self-help processes didn't work here and she sought the professional help of Kelly Sinclair, MSW. Interwoven into the dialogue, is extensive information on anxiety and how one deals with it actively in an assertive manner--by accepting it and experiencing it; then it will disappear over time. Specific steps and directions are given.​

To read Chapter Three,
​click on Bearley Bear

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Chapter Four:
An Angry Life in
​an Angry World 

Rev. Uncle Charlie ends up in jail for his temper outburst against a fast food establishment. The Bishop helps him get into an anger management program. Interwoven into the extensive dialogue between principles is information about anger and how one learns to regularly express it as the way to control it. 
Alice Johnston meets her counselor Rene in the ER and they begin to work together around her adictions and acting out behaviors.
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Rev. Uncle Charlie
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Alice Johnston
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Rene

To read Chapter Four
​Click on Bearley Bear.

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Chapter Five
Hot Damn,
No Damn &
​Double Damn

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Judy and John Bearister
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Good Neighbor Nadi McManus
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Thousands of people everywhere
The chapter gives Information on how emotions are transmitted

through the brain & moves to the human need for stimulation

or 
for excitement. Multi examples, involving thousands of

people,
are given.


Judy Bearister begins talking to Nadi about her gambling

​problem but is ​interupted. 


​Click on me and I will take you to where you can read Chapter Five.
 

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Chapter Six
# Six: The Bishop, The Brain and      Being.Uncle Charlie; Hailey. & Nadi. 
The Bishop and Uncle Charlie  have a 'prayer meeting' on Charlie's  anger. He learns how his brain works in handling negetive, unwanted emotions & how to 'Be'. Hailey meets Nadi in  Nadi's backyard and seeks help in having a baby. 
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Good Neighbor Nadi McMinus
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Hailey
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Rev. Uncle Charlie

To Read Chapter Six,
Click on Bearley Bear

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# Seven: Little Steps Go a 
Long Way

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Lisa Lu
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Kelly Sinclair, MSW
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Alice Johnston
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Rene, Substance Abuse Counselor

​Much dialogue is intermixed with information about the situations Lisa Lu, Alice Johnston, and Aunt Sarah are facing. All the professionals meet on The Complex's deck to discuss common matters. Change is a major focus for all.

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Aunt Sarah Sidler
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Good Neighbor Nadi Mc Manius

Click on Bearley Bear & he will to read Chapter Seven

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# Eight: Conflict Moves You

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Judy & John Bearister
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Kelly Sinclair, MSW
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Dr. D
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Nadi McMansus
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Nana, RN

A small group of helping professionals meet in Nadi’s back yard to talk about the difficulties Americans have in dealing with conflict and some of the situations with which they are working. That includes a                       financial driven brother-brother dispute, living with a Home Owner’s Association, and dealing with an adult son who is living at home and doesn’t have a job. Theoritical concepts, along with different ways of helping people deal with the conflicts/disputes in their lives that can be growth times are discussed and infused into the extensive dialogue. 

Click on Bearley Bear &
He will take you to Chapter
​Eight!!

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# Nine. Valuing Values

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Nana
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Neighbor Nadi McManius
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Kelly Sinclair, MSW
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Judy & John Bearister
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Rene
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Dr. D.

Values underlie everything humans say & do. They are essential to life yet if followed blindly, can lead people to major relationship and/or communication difficulties.  Nadi & Nana talk about values & then politics.  Dr. D. discusses Colonial Values. Nadi listens to Judy Bearister on Judy's unusual gambling issues--she wins! Theoretical concepts are infused into the dialogue to help readers go from these examples to their own examples. 

Click on Bearley Bear
to read Chapter Nine:
Valuing Values

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Chapter Ten: The Great John Deere Tractor Caper

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Nadi McManius, Neighbor
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Judy & John Bearister John Deere Tractor Borrower &
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Neighbor & J.D. Tractor Owner
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The Mowing Minister


A major theme is that everything is connected, influential and a

change in one area influences all other areas. This is a major

paradigm of system’s theory which is illustrated over & over again

as several lawn tractor owners experience relationship and major

communication issues. Each of the three hurdles that can occur

in communication: miss-speaking, miss-hearing, and/or miss-

interpretation actually occurs multiple times. Dialogue is funny,

challenging and illustrates what happens many times each day

​all over this country; theoretical concepts are infused into the plot

and eventually used to get all the tractors home to the right

​owners so peace returns ​to the neighborhood.

​To ride on over to read Chapter Ten, Click on ​
​Bearley Bear.

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# Eleven:
Nothing is Here

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Pat from SNL

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A Bitch
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A Bastard
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Famous Passivity
Passive-aggressiveness, almost an

epidemic in America today, is approached

from a variety of views i.e. Glass is half-

empty or half-full,Negative score-keeping,

Self-fulling prophesy, and many other

classic dramas are explored. Characters,

new and old (Hello Bitch & Bastard, Pat of

SNL) ​demonstrate what passivity does to

communication, relationships, our way of

life and even our country. The antithesis to

it all follows in Chapter Twelve. Extensive

first person dialogue is intertwined

with theoretical ​concepts and theories.
 

Click on Bearley Bear
to read Chapter Eleven

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# Twelve: Antithesis to Nothing.

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Winnie, a long-time neighbor
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Sir Charles, I presume
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Judy & John Bearister
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Rene

​Winnie, a heifer, and Sir Charles, a thinker, lead the discussion of ways to change from a passive-aggressive approach to life. Judy and John Bearister return to Nadi’s backyard to plan additional ways to communicate and influence Ian, their adult son, who is stuck where he is in life. Assertive Communication basics are offered all, along with other theoretical concepts. Rene shares about life in America as a black Frenchman and the poem "The Station" is paraphrased.


Click on Bearley Bear to read the 2nd in the two part series: Chapters 11-12.

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Coming Soon: Chapters 13-25.  Some are there and more are being written weekly. 

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  • OVERVIEW: FRF
    • FRF: CHPT ONE
  • OVERVIEW: CLINICAL
    • TOC 1-12 >
      • CHPT 1 Welcome To Many From Many >
        • CHPT 1 Vault
      • CHPT 2 Aunt Sarah Shares >
        • CHPT 2 VAULT
      • CHPT 3 Lessons for Lisa >
        • Vault 3 Lessons for Lisa
      • CHPT 4 An Angry World >
        • Vault Four: Angry World
      • CHPT 5 Damn & Hot Damn >
        • Vault 5 Damn & Hot Damn
      • CHPT 6 Brain Bishop & Being >
        • Vault 6 The Bishop, The Brain & Being
      • CHPT 7 Little Steps >
        • Vault 7 Little Steps Go a Long Ways
      • CHPT 8 Conflict Moves You >
        • Vault 8. Conflict Moves; Conflicts Are.
      • CHPT 9 Valuing Values >
        • VAULT 9 Valuing Values
      • CHPT 10 John Deere Caper >
        • VAULT 10 John Deere Family Snafu
      • CHPT 11 Nothing is Here. >
        • VAULT # 11 Nothing is here.
      • CHPT 1 2 Antithesis for Nothing >
        • VAULT 12: Anathesisis for Nothing
    • TOC 13-25 >
      • Chpt 13: Choc. Chip Caper >
        • Vault 13 The Chocolate Chip Cookie Caper
      • Chpt 14: Couples / Pairs >
        • Vault 14 Couples Come in Pairs
      • CHPT 15 Plus & More >
        • Vault 15 Strengths in Action
      • Chpt: 16: Action Truisms >
        • Vault 16 Raportee With Nadi: Truisms in Action
      • Chapter 17 We all Hurt >
        • Vault 17 We all Hurt
      • CHPT 18 Parents Lead, + >
        • VAULT 18 PARENTS LEAD
      • CHPT 19 YOUR BRAIN KNOWS >
        • VAULT 19 YOUR BRAIN KNOWS
      • CHPT 20 Out & In: >
        • VAULT 20 Out & In:
      • CHPT 21 Where is Papa? >
        • VAULT 21 Where is Papa?
      • CHPT 22 Who Knows Bill? >
        • VAULT 22 Who Knows Bill?
      • Chpt: 23: Millenials >
        • Vault 23: Millential-Baby Boomers Clash
      • CHPT 24 Ending / Beginnings >
        • Vault 24 Endings/Beginnings
      • CHPT 25. Q's & A's >
        • Q & A Overview One
        • Q & A Overview Two
        • Q & A Overview Feelings
        • Q & A Overview Values
        • Q & A Overview Relationships
        • Q & A Overview Politics
        • Q & A Overview Parenting
        • Q & A's Reading Lists
      • FOR POTENTIAL EDITOR/READERS
      • Getting Outside Help