Day 2357: Messages

One thousand, four hundred, and thirty-six days ago (but who’s counting?), I wrote another blog post titled “Messages.”  During my first year of blogging, I wrote three posts about messages: Day 317: Challenging Negative Messages, Day 178: Feeling discouraged, what helps, and voicemail messages, and Day 144: “Emergency” messages.

My messages for today include the following:

• Some messages bear repeating,
• Sometimes people don’t want to hear messages,
• Messages can be direct, implied, or unexpressed,
• The medium is the message,
• I enjoy exchanging messages with my son through the medium of our phones,
• People talked about messages in a Coping and Healing group recently,
• Mixed messages are everywhere,
• Some messages are hard to read,
• Clarity is important for getting your messages through,
• Many of us have internalized harsh, critical messages from the past,
• This week, two people shared the message that attending my groups has been “life changing,”
• Some people prefer messages in words and other people prefer messages in pictures.

Which one of those visual messages pops for you?

Here’s “Message in a Bottle” by the Police:

If you want the messages of those lyrics more clearly, here‘s this video:

Please accept my messages of gratitude at the end of every post.