Reiki

I've been trying to treat my symptoms in a holistic, natural way. Paige is a natural way to help modify my symptoms. I'm also doing Reiki on a (not so) regular basis. Reiki is a form of guided meditation. I find it very calming, refreshing, and centering. It helps with the god offal headaches that I get and with the tension that I carry in my body. When I'm not so tense and stressed, I find that I don't have symptoms that are as dramatic. Some people will go "Yeah right" and blame the placebo effect. If it can get me off of my chemical cocktail eventually, bring on the placebo effect. All I really want is to eventually be off the meds or even to have them greatly reduced. My next appointment is 3 weeks from now. Let's hope that in doing them more regularly, I get an even greater benefit from them.

Everybody knows my name...

Lassie!!!

No... I'm Paige.

Can't you see we're completely different.

Yet everybody (children, seniors, adults, homeless people) mistake me for that dog.

We cheated

I cheated yesterday. I was over at a friend’s house and we walked over to the Italian center for a treat. I had Paige with me but didn’t want to leave her behind. Since I had her vest in my purse, I stuck it on her and we went into the store. And she did so good. I'll admit that I had a treat hanging in front of her nose the entire time to help her keep her attention. I only had to tell her "leave it" a couple of times. We were only in there for 10 minutes and we had to leave before my friends were done looking around because she was starting to show that she had enough but she did so good. I was such a proud puppy mommy.

It was a cheat because we haven't done any actual public access training. I apologize to my trainers.