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beautiful testimonial from anna

Such a lovely testimonial from Anna after a brief session last week:

hoping to help this animal

my answers for tales that tethr

When you think of your mental health or wellbeing journey, what stands out to you as a defining moment (this might mean a turning point or a period of struggle and change)?

I can think of multiple defining moments in my life, arguably my
wellbeing.

One was discovering Mankind Project when I was 27 years old.  At
that point, I was afraid of men, did not want to be a man, and
still thought of myself as a boy.  Attending Mankind Project's
NWTA weekend, I recognized I already *was* a man physically, and
had all the support I needed to grow internally into the man I had
become outwardly.

My then-girlfriend/fiance Wende saw the changes in me and decided
to attend Woman Within's initiation weekend.

After we had each done our respective weekend trainings
individually, as a couple, our ability to communicate skyrocketed.
We each dropped our previous shaming and blaming language and took
responsibility for our own thoughts and emotions.  Basically, "my
emotions are mine, and have nothing to do with you."

About two years later, when Wende and I broke up, there was no
fight or shame.  Just mutual respect and understanding.

Another defining moment was after marrying my wife in Japan.  I
realized I needed support with my anger issues and re-started a
men's group in Japan.  Stepping into a leadership role felt super
scary and was not something I wanted to do!

I am still leading the men's group now, and it has been pivotal in
my internal growth, guiding me to take more courses in various
types of facilitation and counseling.

Looking back on that time, what advice would you give your younger self?

Think less and follow my joy/courage/desire more often and with less thinking.

quill now trims trailing spaces in title

As submitted, the title for this entry includes the spaces at the front and back: "   forgot to erase test entries   "

Earlier today, I added .trim() to the jQuery code which grabs the title of the entry.

Before I had Quill trim the spaces, it was calculating the URL as having hyphens on the end.

I don't where (else) along the line those spaces were being removed, but those hyphen-terminated URLs did not make it into HTML reality once Hugo had created the site.

23:37 Wednesday 07 April 2021 JST

I have now deleted the test entries and updated this entry's title to just reflect Quill's new skillset.

Thanks to Hugo, the old URL https://www.robnugen.com/journal/2021/04/07/forgot-to-erase-test-entries/ is still available and refreshes to this one.

stubbed my toe getting into the shower

"90% of injuries happen within a mile of home"

- they

After walking around outside barefoot for nearly two hours on concrete, asphalt, and forest, over rocks, grates, sticks, steps.. (1)

I stubbed my toe while getting into the shower.

It didn't really hurt, but was enough to crack the nail and free some blood.

Lin said this was no time for photos. Hahahaha 🤣🤣🤣🤣

On the train on the way to work, I uploaded the photos and wrote the above entry.

Here's an "after" picture, taken in Kawasaki after I super glued the injury at home.

(1) https://www.reddit.com/rpan/r/whereintheworld/mlli0b

PS: the bruise at the cuticle is from an injury in February.