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on October 23, 2016
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I am making my way through this book. I really enjoy reading the stories and encouragement from Sterling Jaquith. I am not naturally a planner so her plans will help me with being more productive. It is very challenging for me to change some poor habits on my own so this book is very much needed in my life. I enjoy listening to Sterling's podcast every week and so I knew I would find a whole book to be helpful to me. She gives several ways to make her plans work for any woman which helps me to use her framework in a personal way and not feel guilty that I am not able to do it on a weekly basis. I highly recommend this book!
on October 18, 2016
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Wow, loved how Sterling tells her story! I laughed. I cried. I was able to relate to many of her stories. I also enjoyed the many quotes from saints. She gives specific suggestion, examples and steps, which are so helpful. Her book guided me through the process. Having the Facebook group for connection and support is great! Highly recommend for any Catholic mom wanting to grow spiritually and in her vocations.
on July 10, 2017
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I absolutely loved this book. It wasn't that anything was new to me, but the author has such a way of breaking things down that make living out the vocation of a wife and mother on the path to sainthood so attainable. I loved her examples, stories, humor, etc. and it really felt like sitting with a dear friend, conversing and challenging and encouraging each other on. This book came at a place in my life where I needed a little kick in the pants and that extra encouragement to just say, "Come on, girl! Let's do this!" I can't recommend it enough. I am so excited to start on my "Catholic Mom Manifesto!"
on December 30, 2016
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I found this a very useful guide to thinking through what it means to be a Catholic mom. I liked her quotes and her discussion of motivation. What really made the book useful to me was her discussion of habit formation. Sterling guides you on the process of discerning what God might be calling you to and how you might do it.
on October 5, 2016
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A good book with a practical, easy-to-follow plan for managing life and prioritizing what really needs your attention in this season of your life. Her plan is easy to customize for any age or family situation. I appreciate the wealth of inspiration she provides from a variety of Catholic and other Christian sources.
For me, it loses one star because you need to visit her website and give your email in order to access the worksheets. I don't actually mind giving my email address, but many people do; I do mind needing the website.
Edit: Worksheets are now public, no email required!
For me, it loses one star because you need to visit her website and give your email in order to access the worksheets. I don't actually mind giving my email address, but many people do; I do mind needing the website.
Edit: Worksheets are now public, no email required!
on September 25, 2016
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After reading this book, I am feeling extremely encouraged. Sterling has a wonderful way of honestly describing the challenges of Catholic motherhood (and motherhood in general), and giving some very practical ways to make progress in your struggles and maybe even enjoy the journey! Looking forward to when this comes out in print so that I can gift it to some of my friends.
on October 5, 2016
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I absolutely LOVE this book! As a 35 yo mother of three children ages 4 and under, this book had to have been placed in my life by the Holy Spirit just when I needed it most. Feeling overwhelmed by not progressing spiritually in my faith as much as I hoped since becoming a mother, this book offers me a tangible plan to progress toward my goal of becoming a saint in this lifetime. Sometimes I found myself laughing as I read through it, because it's almost as if she's writing about me! You won't regret ordering this book.
on September 30, 2016
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I love the whole concept of putting God first in everything you do and now to organize it all into my daily walk. I am just starting out filling the worksheets and find them very helpful that I even am making up a book for my 26 year old daughter who is now also reading this book on her kindle with me. I am a mother of three grown children and four beautiful grandchildren. My daughter lives 12 hours away from me and I am excited on doing this with her. She has three children currently and is also enjoying this book.
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I enjoyed this book and I am looking forward to starting the challenge! Sterling has wonderful tips in her book and in her podcast!
This book is a great tool to help moms in their everyday lives as they journey toward Sainthood. Sterling gives very practical advice, rooted in scripture and the teachings of the...Read more
This book is truly Holy Spirit inspire!! It is a labor of love and a precious gift to all moms who are searching for more direction in their lives or are feeling lost in the storm...Read more
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When this guy headed over to our girl Keisha Grey's house she knew she had better get Stretched Out; she heard he had a huge cock and didn't want to get basically split in half! She was wearing just her legwarmers, bending over to show off that big round juicy ass and her big perfect tits as the guy came up behind her…he grabbed those large breasts, squeezing them together adn then sliding inside her wetness, fucking that perfect pussy with his huge dick making her gasp and moan! Keisha loves a big thick cock in her hole and gets a major league fucking, taking every inch here on Passion HD until the guy shot his load inside for a creampie, which dripped out for her to lick up off the floor…
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Check out Keisha Grey getting down right dirty with Jenna Ivory. I would say that Jenna is more of a MILF but Keisha doesn't really need to learn anything from her because she knows it all. That thick body of hers looks hot as hell in her little Santa outfit and then when she gets her perfect butt plugged but this guys big dick you guys are going to love it. Seems like Keisha has finally moved to the point where she really loves some anal play / anal sex. This scene was done by Brazzers as a little bit of a Holiday special and I would say it was quite special indeed!
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Our girl Keisha Grey was hard at work in this hot Passion HD scene taking care of some spreadsheets…her man was on the other side of the desk working on his laptop but soon Keisha was on top of his lap! She could't stop thinking about that big dick of his and just had to get her pussy pierced, riding on top of his cock while she bounced those big perfect natural boobs in his face to drive him nuts. Between those big tits and her sexy round spankable ass this guy wasn't gonna last long and sure enough, soon he was busting a big facial load of cum on her grin to finish things off!
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I am thinking that Hard-X loves Keisha Grey almost as much as we love her! They have her on once again and they're doing something she has never done before and that's get double penetrated! She has some big dicks in her in this video and not only she is doing DP but she is also going airtight! That's when every single hole of hers is filled up. She is fucking 4 guys in this Hard-X video, so that's a gangbang also, I mean there is a lot going on here and you're going to want to see it. Keisha has never been so slutty and somehow she still looks hot as hell even with these for swinging dicks treating her like a piece of meat.
P.S. If you like Hard X but you're not … Read More »
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The beautiful Keisha Grey is doing something pretty naughty in this Hard-X scene she is doing anal! This isn't the first time she has done anal but it's definitely the biggest dick that has been in that perfect round ass of hers. I am dying to know what is the deal with this black guy wearing knee braces during sex, I have seen him in other Hard-X scenes and he always has them on WTF LOL! The video is really hot you can tell the Keisha is starting to enjoy that butt sex and she has came a long way since that first butt sex for Hard X scene.
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This is a pretty unique gallery because I think Keisha Grey hasn't been on a site like this before. This is a niche in porn called CFNM it means Clothed Female Naked Male. So in this case Keisha never takes off her pants instead she just tears a hole in her crotch and that allows the guy to fuck that amazing pussy of hers. Judging from the pictures alone it looks like he doesn't bring out those big titties of hers but have no fear when you watch this long video I have for you you will see her lovely naturals.
P.S. as I typed this I just searched for CFNM on the site and did find that Keisha has done this before, exactly one time for a site called CFNM Show you can see that if you … Read More »
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Spring is here and the weather is getting warmer, and it's almost time for a sexy steamy Summer Night Romance like Keisha is demonstrating in this Erotica X scene! She looks incredible in her little skimpy black string bikini, flashing those titties and giving a nice view of that perfect round ass as she strips down…but hold onto your butts because you're about to get a way better look at it as she gets naked and gets fucked by her man's big hard cock, taking it deep in her pussy and then getting a big load of cum all over her ass!
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This article shows a picture of the GUI on Microsoft's first operating system, MS-DOS - *ahem*...that's MS-DOS Executive if you're fancy. If you look in the lower left hand corner, you'll see what looks like a game of checkers going on with ugly red and blue chips against an even uglier astroturf green background. This - this - is the only game I've ever played on Windows. It's called Reversi (which is basically the board game Othello; strangely enough, I've never played it) and it rocks your brain - but unlike its parent OS, it never got to be 30 years old. I had no idea it was with Windows from its harumpy Executive start.
Not that I'll do the research right now, but one day it would be nice to find out what other games (if any - Solitaire, perhaps?) came with MS-DOS and when Reversi became online-capable (I can't imagine it was that way from the start). I still play it, but beginning with Windows Vista it disappeared, forcing me to re-install XP to play it again, Sam, which I've done many, many times, because there is no better way to kill time while CCleaner wipes data, frees disk space and, more recently, overwrites my pesky cluster tips - wait, I don't even know what that is, I just do it, anyway, so there's something else I should look up - than go kill myself playing Reversi.
One of the few good things about Windows 10? My beloved game is back - without having to reinstall XP - in the form of Online Reversi, which is free (with in-app upgrades; I can't imagine what those are, though, seriously?) in the Windows Store. It's not made by Microsoft (which is a shame, as I still vastly prefer the XP version to all others - even MSN's online game sucks) but it does have neat capabilities that MS's did not, like playing against the AI (XP's version would fail with the message: "Cannot connect to game server/Try again?/Quit?" if your machine went offline) which I can do until my brains are practically popping out from over-exertion - which, being me, is exactly what makes it so much fun.
Trivia question: can anyone recall Reversi's messenger? It had one. Back when I started playing (2004ish) it was considered state of the art, a top of the line medium because it allowed you to communicate with other players while eliminating all forms of harassment by using pre-written text messages in a long dropdown list beneath the game board that you could scroll through and select from. Some of the messages were sort of competitive, like "Ha! I got the corner!" But there was no corresponding "answer" like "Yep asshole, you sure did". The wildest response you could make was, "Good one!" or if you were feeling pretty frisky, something about how you'd get them back in the next round.
Bonus points if you can recall the dialog box at the end of every game: "Play again? Quit?" If your opponent won they'd almost always want to Play Again - unless they wiped your ass off the board, in which case they usually found you unworthy and Quit (we also had the option of quitting midgame regardless of who was winning, which came in handy if something came up). If you lost it was considered bad form to initiate an offer to Play Again unless the score was very, very close or an actual tie or you only lost in the last few seconds after a good, long winning streak; otherwise the winner was expected to invite you back by accepting the Play Again message before you did. If you asked to Play Again but got rejected, it felt like losing twice, so you learned to avoid it.
And bonus bonus points if you can recall either of the following: how long Reversi took to connect to other servers on dial-up (simply forever) and how much longer it took to connect to China, which for some reason it did, usually starting around 3am when apparently all the US players except me had crashed. An extra bonus bonus bonus if you can recall exactly how many servers Reversi connected to, because I can't. The US and China for sure, along with possibly Russia, but for some reason, Poland and perhaps a few other Slavic countries are also jumping around in my mind as possibilities.


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WWAS + Buttons
I had a blast at my booth at the beautiful Westwood Art Show over the weekend. Thank you to the organizers for having me, everyone who stopped by and all of the wonderful new people I met. It was also a great way to spread the word about FSW, and I gave out around a hundred flipbooks. I also wanted to mention that there is a new local shop called Wooden Hill (located on the end of the strip where Treasure Alley used to be, they moved next door) that just opened their doors the day of the show on Saturday. It is a great store featuring all sorts of works form local artists, and you can pick up a copy of Tunnel-Ball and a few prints there from yours truly.
I have some buttons leftover from the show that I will include with all online orders while they last.
Thank you for a Floating Shape Summer
The last Floating Shape Workshop event of the summer has come to a close, and it's hard to believe that our inaugural round of summer workshops are over. Given the late start, I originally thought we might host about just a couple of workshops this summer, and we ended up doing seven. Workshops were almost all hosted in unique & welcoming, community-oriented venues. I had such an absolute blast at all of them.
It is difficult to squeeze into the paragraph of a blog post, but I am so thankful, humbled, and optimistic about the future of Floating Shape. Organizing a sustainable, welcoming animation workshop for children in the Cincinnati area has been an idea of mine for years, and it took teaching it as a class (and a lot of inspiration from Yvonne Andersen's book about her seminal children's workshop in the 1960s) to really move forward with it. From there, it was just creating the name and logo, and getting some unique venues to host us. Being able to provide children with the supplies and education to explore and engage in animation as an artform and communication tool (both independently and collaboratively) has been endlessly rewarding. In my experience, quite a few children have had an interest in creating animation, but might have not had the resources to expand on (either from a financial or education perspective). That would, of course, also describe myself growing up.
Thanks so much to all of the venues and festivals who hosted workshops, and to everyone who helped out and participated. A very special thanks to the Public Library of Cincinnati, who hosted multiple workshops at a few different branches. They also posted a couple of excellent photo galleries here. Bias aside, we are fortunate to have a world class library system which I utilize constantly.
The FSW is already booking workshops for the fall/winter. While the calendar will not be as plentiful as summer (as I will return to teaching full time), the plan is to continue to hold workshops throughout the year, primarily on weekend dates. In the immediate future, FSW will have a booth at the Westwood Art Show next month, and in the coming months, we will have re-rescheduled workshops at Robot Inside and the Play Library. If you are interested in hosting a workshop, please contact me via the link at the top of this page, or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com
Here are a couple of my favorite pics from the summer's workshops ...
Floating Shape Workshop's Film Archive
I recently launched a YT channel to archive short animations and films made at Floating Shape Workshops events. This will be a work in progress managing different videos and getting them uploaded as time goes on. So far, you can see things like the one posted below, as well the collaborative, some filmed flipbooks, and the live animation created at this past weekend's workshop at Thunder-Sky, Inc.
Below is a short cutout animated promo for tomorrow's workshop at the Price Hill Library. After the Mini Microcinema screens animated films in Spanish (Películas para Niños en Español) from the New York International Children's Film Festival, FSW will be having a flipbook workshop from 1-2 PM!
And here is a collaborative animated story from a few days ago made by seven children (ages 5-8) at the downtown branch of the Public Library of Cincinnati.
Public Library's FSW Gallery
The Public Library of Cincinnati was kind enough to post a gallery of photos from Tuesday's Floating Shape Workshop session. I had a blast hosting a workshop during their "Monstrous Monsters" theme. Check out the gallery here.
Interview on Brat Chat
Thank you to Inhailer.com for having me over to their studio to be a guest on Brat Chat with Belinda Cai today. It was great getting to have an in-depth conversation about the formation of Floating Shape Workshop, our upcoming summer schedule, and how animation can be such a strong communication tool for children. There are no archived shows/podcasts yet, but when/if it becomes available in the future, I will certainly post a link.
Belinda even received the very first FSW button!
Here are some key dates for the Floating Shape Workshop this summer.
UPDATE: We have also since booked a workshop at the Price Hill Library on Saturday, July 22, a special flipbook workshop following the screening of "Films for Kids in Spanish / Películas para Niños en Español" courtesy of the Mini Microcinema.
Click here for the detailed full schedule including registration & sign up info. Some workshops, like the Price Hill Library event mentioned above are free and open to everyone!
Summer Machine
I did the cover for the June issue of The Northsider. It's out! And it features some anthropomorphic suns building some sort of "summer machine" ...
Floating Shape Workshop in July
The FSW will be doing a one week summer camp workshop this July. There will be a couple of more this summer, but this is the first one booked and currently taking registrations.
There are only a couple of spots left! See below for registration instructions.
I announced the Floating Shape Workshop a couple of months ago. It is a mobile version of the animation workshop I started teaching this year. I plan on bringing the workshop to other summer camps, libraries, and various other children's events/activities.
July's workshop should be a fun one, as it will take place at my good friend Tara's awesome shop/craft studio space, where I have done a couple of book reading events. Please check out the FSW tab located above on this website for a full description ... as a reminder, the workshop is recommended for children in a roughly 7-14 age range.
Floating Shape Workshop at Robot Inside / July 24-28.
Registration: Visit Robot Inside's Summer Camp page, scroll down to the camp labeled "ANIMATION WORKSHOP". Located there is a Paypal "Buy Now" icon. The registration cost covers all materials and supplies.
Thanks and perhaps I'll see you and/or a young one in your life there!
I will be doing a special reading of "Tunnel-Ball" on Earth Day (April 22) in a few weeks to kick off all of the Earth Day activities at Robot Inside. It's going to be fun!
New addition to the AW
I had been making lightboxes for my Animation Workshop class the cheap/generic way, by takingregular old plastic lightboxes and slapping a plastic pegbar on them. Truthfully, this method is perfectly adequate for what we do in the class, and the results have been great.
However, I am always keeping an eye out for used equipment (read: cheap), and recently came across a very cheap rotating animation disc (Cartoon Colour Co.) on eBay. I ended up being the only bidder. It is, of course, a remarkable sign of the times that this type of once highly sought after (and very expensive) piece of equipment would go for so cheap given that it is practically obsolete in the industry (my guess would be that the only place that typical discs/lightboxes are still prevalent would be in colleges where it would simply be too expensive to fill entire labs with Cintiqs or variations of it).
My extremely talented carpenter father helped build the wooden, adjustable base, cut a round hole in the middle, and voila. It is underlit with a thin board with LED strips, which works perfectly. It's a beauty and will be an awesome addition to the AW.
New year, new book, & thank you
For whatever reason, I have never been the New Year's "resolutions" or looking back, retrospective type. As I sat down on December 31 to make this post about a new book, though, I couldn't help but to ultimately reflect on what has probably been the busiest, most productive year I have had as an artist-educator. So before I get to the book stuff, let me just take a brief minute ...
"Tunnel-Ball" was a truly awesome experience, and it's surreal that it was about ten months ago now that it was published and it seemed like I was spending much of my free time making felt pennants. The release party included the most fun book reading I have ever done to date, the book made it onto the shelves of a few of my favorite stores in the world, and even into the hands of an official MLB mascot. The most rewarding part of all, though, is just hearing the "it has been a bedtime story staple at our house" messages from friends, family, and strangers.
It was also an unexpected year of contributing a couple of pieces to gallery shows in tribute to two musicians who I had always considered massive inspirations (despite obviously bittersweet circumstances). I also did a Kreate-a-Kaiju workshop event, getting to spread my joy of city-crushing Japanese monster creatures with children and adults of all ages in a collaborative setting was simply remarkable.
Another major highlight was/is teaching the Animation Workshop, in which I am doing my best to attempt to create the type of class that I wish had been available to me when I was younger but didn't really have the resources to explore that big, confusing animation realm. I am doing my best to keep the content original, and most importantly: fun. I have big ideas for the AW, starting with gaining some new supplies and materials which should arrive before holiday break is over.
There was also this, which I hope to make in print form at some point in the new year (hopefully by September, which is ITP awareness month). It was also have a new, actual conclusion. would like to print a few copies just to give out or include with regular online store purchases.
Essentially, what I'm getting at is: thank you to everyone for their support in the past year (in any capacity, even if just briefly glancing at this right now), and now, a brief glimpse of one of the things to come in the future.
This current holiday break also means, as I originally eluded to, that I have officialy began the production of a new picture book. I have tentatively had this one in the works prior to Tunnel-Ball coming out, during the final stretch of everything being put together and sent off to the printers. However, as is typically the case, the entire story was reworked numerous times to get to what it is currently. I'm sure there will be plenty of updates here along the way, but all I will say for now is ...
- After a brief hiatus (Tunnel-Ball's b&w), the book will be in color
- It may or may not have words (!)
- There are tentative plans to have a broader scale expansion/"performance" of the book, expanding on how the T-B was done (see link to post above)
- That storyboard in the first picture gives nothing away (unless you can accurately decipher the "TBCP" acronym ... if that is even still the title by the time it comes out)
- The third picture is my brand new lightbox, which I'll mostly be using to make the book. The wooden part underneath was made by my (carpenter) father. I wanted a better solution to keeping the translucent surface underlit without just cramming a desk lamp underneath. This wood panel has a strip of longlasting LED lights that lights it up perfectly.
- Lastly, the final pic (a pencil sketch of one of the earliest pages), also gives virtually nothing away.
Scenes from the Animation Workshop
Last month, after making my poster for International Animation Day, I had mentioned how I had been teaching an "animation workshop" class since August. The class has kept me so busy on top of personal projects that I never really had a chance to post anything about it.
The idea came to me last year, when some students at the school I teach at had started asking me questions about animation. They would bring in DVDs of their favorite animated films, read stuff on the bonus discs, then ask "what is a storyboard?" or "what is an animatic?" It instantly reminded me of being that age and having the same questions, and just generally being awe-inspired and befuddled as to how these cartoons magically started to move on the screen.
Of course, when I was growing up in the mid-nineties, animation was in a bit of an odd transitional period. The big digital/Flash boom was on the horizon, but I was too young to have a grasp on any of that, and I was stuck hoping that the library or local bookstores had even one or two copies of books about the animation process (when they did, they were normally too intimidating, how-to books made by old master draftsmen teaching anatomical walk cycles). At that age, most of my animation was spent making flipbooks and trying rough animation on copy paper with a DIY lightbox, since it was essentially impossible to come by the proper type of supplies or equipment (notably a camera and cels). It is kept simple and mostly camera-free for a number of reasons, mostly due to the allotted budget for materials, and the fact that I am far from qualified to be teaching anything more advanced.
In the class, we have done mostly camera-less animation projects. Things like good quality custom flipbooks, working on basic movement the old-fashioned way (lightbox w/ pegbar and punched animation paper), and some claymation using Aardman's "AnimateIt" software. Considering nothing that we do is digital (outside of the claymation, the class is also a bit like stepping back in time. Creatively, I always stress that the class is just about "thinking visually". I am not so much concerned in highly disciplined and fundamentally sound works as much as I am the students just having fun putting their own ideas on the paper. The students are currently working on self-publishing their own class "coloring book" where they each contributed a b&w illustration, and will distribute them to the school.
Another major influence was reading a book about Yvonne Anderson's influential "Yellow Ball Animation Workshop" that she started in the 1960s.
A part of it is also the academic side of animation history when we are not diving in and getting our hands dirty ... learning of the the world outside of Disney/Pixar, both commercial and independent/experimental. We start each class watching a short from around the world. Consensus favorites so far have been Kaj Pindal's "I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" (the song is now frequently sang), anything Miyazaki, and Nick Park's original "Creature Comforts".
It has been an absolute blast so far and I hope to keep it going, perhaps even as a traveling summer program of sorts. We'll see. Here are are a few photos ...
International Animation Day 2016
I made this poster to celebrate ASIFA's annual "International Animation Day" celebration today (10/28). Since August, I have been teaching an animation workshop class twice a week and it has been one of the coolest experiences of my life, Thus far we have dug into a lot of animation history by watching a wide variety of films both commercial and independent, and have done some basic animation from flipbooks to very simple exercises like the bouncing ball using the good old traditional way with a pegbar and punched paper. We are currently moving into the basics of stop motion using clay. The students designed their own IAD posters, too, as a culmination of learning to ink with a variety of different brushes/tools using a lightbox. More on all of this later. Until then, happy International Animation Day!
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In fullest day,
In famished night,
No burger shall escape my sight!
Let those who worship health food's blight,
Beware my hunger...
Fat Lantern's bite!
It's the 100th post of The Fat Lantern! This is a huge milestone for me and the site. As I stated in my very first post, Issue #1, I started this blog to write about and discuss comics. Along the way, I've done just that and even thrown in some fun, non-comic related goodness. Let's take a look at some of the highlights from the past 100 posts.
Most Popular Post:
We might as well start off with a bang! The hands-down, most popular post on the entire site is A Tribute to Professional Wrestlers in Comic Book Movies. There are a number of people that still check out this post every day, even though it was posted back in February. I have to admit, I did get some help to make this happen. I sent a link to WWE Hall of Famer Jim Ross on Twitter and he retweeted it! Ever since then, tons of people have been visiting the site for this post. Two of my favorite things on earth are comics and professional wrestling, so I have no problem with this post being #1.
Are you familiar with the idea of fan fiction? I am in the process of writing a short story that I refer to as fat fiction. I don't want to give away too much, but I will tell you that the title of the story is "The Dark Knight Widens". It takes place after "The Dark Knight" but before "The Dark Knight Rises". You'll only be able to get it here, folks, so stay tuned!
Not-So-Popular Posts:
No matter how hard you try, some posts don't become an immediate smash hit. This is especially the case for some of the earlier posts that a lot of my current readers were not around for yet. Here is a list of posts that I think deserve another shot:
- Green Lantern: Agent Orange - I discuss one of my favorite Green Lantern stories.
- Boards and Bags: It's Never Too Late! - An important lesson in comic book etiquette.
- Spray It, Don't Say It - My love/hate relationship with old-fashioned comic books.
- I Can Judge A Comic by Its Cover - I reveal my favorite comic book cover of all time.
What happened to the Joker's green hair when he jumped into the Red Sea?
(From The Joker's Joke Book, DC Comics Inc., 1987)
Comment with what you think is the answer! I'll post the correct answer tomorrow morning in the comments section.
Fat Lantern's Picks:
As I hope is apparent, I love writing not only for myself, but to be entertaining as well. I put time and effort into everything that I write, but there are some posts that I have been particularly proud of. Here are my personal favorites that I hope everyone checks out:
- The Fat Wolverine - I share my thoughts on a drawing that I did in high school. I was not impressed.
- Warrior #1 - I review an insane comic book based on The Ultimate Warrior.
- The Big Boot - A post about one of my favorite wrestling moves that shows up in comics more often than you would think.
- Taking Over Episode 1 - Wrestling Heroes and Villains - It's an audio blog post! My brother derryX and I discuss an important social media topic: Professional wrestlers on social networking sites.
- Meeting Jim Lee and Geoff Johns - A thrilling tale of me meeting two comic book living legends.
- Blue Beetle #9 - I review this Blue Beetle/Green Lantern: New Guardians crossover.
- Green Lantern: New Guardians #9 - I review another great issue in the Blue Beetle/Green Lantern: New Guardians crossover.
- SUPERMANIA - I get to live out my dream of commentating a wrestling match right in front of your eyes.
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One of Taranaki's most beloved quirks is again facing up to life as an endangered species.
New Plymouth's independent radio station The Most FM has been forced to halve its workforce of two, disestablishing station manger Mike Dunn's position in order to stay afloat.
This is not the first time the station has been in trouble. In 2008 it was off air for months after a clerical blunder let their broadcasting licence expire. But it was soon back, run by a charitable trust.
Trustee Richie Shearer is confident of the station's survival.
"We've fallen on tough times before but we have regrouped and rebuilt. It's a challenge to keep our heads above water and unfortunately the largest cost, in this case the station manager, has had to be sacrificed to restore viability," he said.
Truly independent stations like The Most, which relied heavily on their more than 40 volunteers, were endangered species, Shearer said.
They were not helped by crippling licence fees, which he said were similar to that charged on commercial stations despite their charitable trust status.
"There is no mechanism to take that into account. But Taranaki is very lucky that our volunteers and trustees have put in so much effort keeping this cultural quirk going. There is really no other province that has a radio station like it," he said.
For his part, Dunn is disappointed but not dispirited that his job for the past two years is over. He will continue to host his Friday afternoon radio show at the station and his passion for the influence and value of local radio remains undiminished.
"It's one of the few stations in the country that is still holding tight to proper live, cutting-edge music. It's common overseas but has been mostly squashed out over here.
"Radio is still incredibly important globally to push and promote new music and it needs to be important here," he said.
Most FM trustees will manage the station while Jack Irving will remain as breakfast host and station co-ordinator. More changes to ensure the station's sustainability are expected to be announced in the coming months.
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NEP today announces it has further strengthened its team with the appointment of Keith Lane as Vice President, Client Services Discovery / Eurosport. Based at NEPs UK offices, the role will have Keith leading the strategic development of the Discovery and Eurosport relationship.
Dalet Digital Media Systems, a leading provider of solutions and services for media organizations, is pleased to announce two new key management appointments for the Dalet Asia Pacific region: Cesar Camacho to General Manager and Rosa Pereiro to Director of Sales. Based at the Dalet Singapore office, the new appointments will serve to further strengthen Dalets presence and support across the region. The appointments are effective immediately.
Imagen, the leading Software-as-a-Service video management company, announced today that it has appointed Charlie Horrell as its new CEO, a move that strengthens its senior management team and highlights the on going ambition for growth in new markets.
Ikegami (www.ikegami.com), the leading manufacturer of specialised cameras and image processing equipment in the broadcast and medical industries, today announced the appointment of Kenzo Ishizuka to President of its European office. Effective immediately, Ishizuka is responsible for heading up Ikegamis European operations as well as managing all key customer accounts, system integrators and channel partners across the EMEA region.
AJA Video Systems has hired Steve Holyhead as the new Senior Product Manager for desktop products, based in the company's Grass Valley, Calif. headquarters. Steve joins AJA from Fox Broadcasting Company where he most recently served as Director of Technical Operations. He brings a wealth of experience into this role, having worked in senior positions both client-side in production, and with technology developers that include Avid and Discreet (now Autodesk).


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(Okay, yes, I realize it's Wedsday, but this post is about Monday. Not confusing at all.)
The other night, two of my children decided to run away. And we let them.
|Left arrow: Eli, 5. Right arrow: Isaiah, 6.
Now, don't freak out, they're home. We didn't leave them unattended, either, though they didn't know that.
I honestly have no idea what triggered their decision, as the day had been filled with arguments and fights, and by 7pm I was no longer paying any attention to the whiny voices bombarding my ears.
One minute we were telling everyone to get ready for bed, and the next minute my six year old was running through the yard toward Main Street. In his underwear. I turned around, laughing, to tell his dad what was happening, and out goes the 5 year old as well. Luckily, he had on some clothes. We watched them through the windows for a while, but when they were out of sight, Alex got in the car to find them.
Now, the town we live in is all of a block and a half long and about 2 blocks wide. There are no major roadways, and everyone's got kids, so people know to drive pretty slowly. So normally it wouldn't be a big deal for a kid who's old enough to cross the street. But we do have a few registered sex offenders living in our tiny piece of the world, and my son was in his underwear! (I wish I had had the presence of mind to snap a picture – it was hilarious!)
Alex found the boys, followed just under their radar for a few minutes, then drove home when it looked like they were on their way inside.
|Our "low profile" covert operations vehicle.
But they weren't.
They had come back to the yard just to get a bike and a scooter. I guess walking barefoot down the sidewalk in 92 degree weather just wasn't working as well as they'd hoped.
We watched covertly some more. But when they went to a neighbor's house to play, we thought Isaiah's tighty-whities might not be appreciated by the 8 year old girl's parents. So Alex went over and explained to the boys the difference between running away and visiting friends without permission. They left her yard, stood under a stop sign that joins two lanes (that are really more like alleys) and tried to hash out a plan as Alex walked home carrying their bike and scooter.
By this time, I was getting annoyed. It was way past bedtime on a school night, I was still cluster-feeding the baby (as I do every night between dinner an 9-11pm ), and I wanted to go to bed knowing that everyone was safe. I was
maybe probably definitely a little harder on Alex than I should have been when I asked him, "Why did you come home alone?" He took the hint.
He sneaked up on the boys, grabbed Eli, and ran home. Well, he tried to run, but Eli's a big boy, and he was flailing wildly, so it was really more of a hobble. Isaiah followed closely behind.
We discussed how easily Eli had been "kidnapped" and how little Isaiah had done to try and stop it from happening. We talked about how much easier it would have been for someone with a car to take them both wherever he wanted. We told the boys about the bad guys who live in town and are known for hurting children. Isaiah said that if Eli had been taken by a bad guy, he would have called the police. We asked him, "Let's say Dad had the car when he got Eli. If the police asked you what the car looked like, what would you tell them?" Then we explained that calling our car "oval" and "kind of brownish" wouldn't help the police very much. We tried to convince them that the only safe place for a little boy to be is at home with the people who love him.
Isaiah seemed to understand. Eli cried and accused Alex of choking him. (Don't worry, we were trained on how to hold/restrain a tantruming mental patient when or oldest was in the hospital last year; Alex did just fine.) And then we all went to bed.
What would you do if your kindergarten-age child/children ran away?
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Date: Tuesday, 9 January 2001, at 11:47 a.m.
Yesterday when I was at my local Petsmart I bought 2 black "Mystery snails" because I have read that loaches like to eat snails. Will the loaches eat this species of snail? and does anyone know how long it takes these snails to have baby snails?
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Kew Palace
Built in 1631, this building provides one of the first examples of "Flemish Bond" brickwork in the country. Bought by the Crown in 1781, George III and his family lived here. The building is now a Grade I listed National Monument.
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I used to have debilitating headaches daily until I finally gave Chiropractic and Dr. Brian a try. I can only say that my life has changed and I can't believe that I waited so long. I could have been living normally all along.
Kevin M.
I recently found out what people say when they experience severe back pain. I had debilitating pain and spasms and could barely walk. I went to the emergency room even though I knew that they would not do much for me. It turned out that I was right. They didn't even really examine me and sent me off with a prescription for muscle relaxers and pain killers. I then was referred to Seebacher Family Chiropractic Center and Dr. Brian and his staff took great care of me. It did take a few days to get back to normal activities but I immediately knew that I was in great hands and was getting the specific care that I needed. Thanks Doc!
Ronald S.
Working in the health field for many years, I was a bit skeptical of a chiropractic approach to treatment for back pain. When I walked or should I say shuffled in to Seebacher Family Chiropractic office, I was pleasantly surprised at the professionalism and knowledge of Dr. Brian and his staff. The treatment for my back pain was exceptional, the pain was cut in half and by the next day I was almost symptom free!
Rose Lanzo
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Shadyside Hospital
Many thanks to Dr Brian Seebacher, who patiently worked with me to fix a very
uncomfortable misaligned rib. He is thorough and explains what he is doing and why,
also giving good advice on dealing with the problem on a daily basis. You'll never hear
about your condition or your visit to his office from anyone else, because he is careful,
as is his staff, to keep everything confidential. If you're looking for a skillful, highly
trained, caring chiropractor, you can't do better than Dr. Brian!
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Upon my first visit with Dr. Brian I knew he was like no other chiropractor I had ever been to. The previous two chiropractors I had seen did not take the time as Dr. Brian did. He also took x-rays which I had never had done with either of the other previous and he took the time to explain and go over them with me in detail as to make sure I understood. This was something I don't experience often with any type of doctor. I use the chiropractor primarily for wellness, but I also will have a spell of migraines about once a month. Now to me I have always just dealt with it while using chiropractic relief, but ultimately just letting them run their course. Dr. Brian, however, was confident that after time he could eliminate them so I wouldn't have to "just deal" with them. I didn't even know that it was possible to completely eliminate them for I had only heard of relief after occurrence through chiropractic care or meds, but to hear him say that was encouraging. I believe that the care and expertise Dr. Brian Seebacher provides to his patients is unlike any other. He truly cares for his patients and heck he's really good at what he does!
~Whitney S~
I have been seeing Dr. Seebacher for the last 3 1/2 months. I came to him with extreme lower back and sciatica pain to the point that walking and sitting for long periods was excruciating if not impossible. Under Dr. Seebacher's care I have been pain free for the past 6 weeks. Dr. Seebacher and Chiropractic has truly changed my quality of life!
Sherrie R.
July 7, 2014
I am pleased to write this endorsement for Dr. Brian Seebacher, based on my experience as his patient.
Nine months after suffering a serious tibia plateau fracture that required surgery, compounded by considerable soft tissue damage to my ankle, I was still having physical therapy sessions twice a week. I had a substantial limp and constant pain in my knee and ankle while walking. That changed with my first visit to Dr. Seebacher. I walked better immediately and my pain was reduced considerably.
I live in Erie, two and a half hours away by car, but the reduction in pain and improvement in mobility that I experienced with every treatment was more than worth the drive. In addition, Dr. Seebacher's manipulations were completely painless. The office staff was friendly, helpful and scheduled appointments that accommodated my schedule. I have found Dr. Seebacher to be a caring, knowledgeable, talented professional and I am very pleased to recommend him.
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This study focused on the development and pilot testing of a protocol based on Prolonged Exposure (PE) that can be added to Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to treat PTSD in suicidal and self-injuring individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD). Women with BPD, PTSD, and recent and/or imminent serious intentional self-injury (n=13) received one year of DBT with the DBT PE Protocol, plus three months of follow up assessment. The treatment was associated with significant reductions in PTSD, with the majority of patients no longer meeting criteria for PTSD at post-treatment (71.4% of DBT PE Protocol completers, 60.0% of the intent-to-treat sample). A minority of patients (27.3%) engaged in intentional self-injury during the study. Improvements were also found for suicidal ideation, dissociation, trauma-related guilt cognitions, shame, anxiety, depression, and social adjustment. There was no evidence that the DBT PE Protocol led to exacerbations of intentional self-injury urges or behaviors, PTSD, treatment dropout, or crisis service use. Overall, the results indicate that this integrated BPD and PTSD treatment is feasible to implement within one year of treatment, highly acceptable to patients and therapists, safe to administer, and shows promise as an effective intervention for PTSD in this complex and high-risk patient population.
The high comorbidity between borderline personality disorder (BPD) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is well-documented, with approximately 30–50% of individuals with BPD also meeting criteria for PTSD (Harned, Rizvi, & Linehan, 2010b; Pagura et al., 2010). Individuals with BPD and PTSD are more impaired in terms of global psychological distress, Axis I comorbidity, emotion dysregulation, and suicidal and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) than those with BPD alone (Harned et al., 2010; Pagura et al., 2010). Overall, the presence of PTSD predicts a lower likelihood of remitting from BPD across ten years of naturalistic follow-up (Zanarini, Frankenburg, Hennen, Reich, & Silk, 2006).
Despite the frequent co-occurrence of BPD and PTSD, few approaches exist for treating PTSD among BPD patients, particularly those with recent intentional self-injury (i.e., suicide attempts and/or NSSI). PTSD treatment guidelines uniformly recommend addressing imminent suicidality before treating PTSD (e.g, Foa, Keane, Friedman, & Cohen, 2009) and acutely suicidal patients are routinely excluded from PTSD treatment studies (Bradley, Greene, Russ, Dutra, & Westen, 2005). Of the PTSD treatment studies that have reported including BPD patients, all excluded recently and/or imminently suicidal patients and the majority excluded patients with a variety of other problems that frequently co-occur with severe BPD (e.g., NSSI, substance dependence; Clarke, Rizvi, & Resick, 2008; Feeny, Zoellner, & Foa, 2002; Cloitre et al., 2010; Steil, Dyer, Priebe, Kleindienst, & Bohus, 2011; Mueser et al., 2008; McDonagh et al., 2005). Thus, no treatments exist that target PTSD among suicidal and self-injuring patients in general, or those with BPD in particular.
In contrast, BPD treatments include suicidal and self-injuring patients but often do not target their PTSD. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT; Linehan, 1993), the most empirically supported treatment available for BPD, recommends the use of exposure to treat PTSD, but does not include a protocol specifying when or how to do this. Thus, although DBT is effective in reducing intentional self-injury among BPD patients with PTSD (Harned, Jackson, Comtois, & Linehan, 2010a), studies to date have not targeted PTSD specifically. As a result, the rate of PTSD remission in DBT is relatively low (35%; Harned et al., 2008). Studies of other BPD treatments have not included PTSD as an outcome (Bateman & Fonagy, 1999; Blum et al., 2008; Clarkin, Levy, Lenzenweger, & Kernberg, 2007; Giesen-Bloo et al., 2006).
The present study focused on developing a protocol based on Prolonged Exposure (PE; Foa, Hembree, & Rothbaum, 2007) that can be added to DBT to treat PTSD among suicidal and self-injuring BPD patients. PE was selected because exposure therapies are the most empirically supported treatments available for PTSD (Institute of Medicine, 2007), and PE is the most researched exposure treatment (Powers, Halpern, Ferenschak, Gillihan, & Foa, 2010). The combined DBT and DBT PE Protocol treatment differs from existing approaches by: (1) providing integrated, concurrent treatment for BPD and PTSD, (2) including suicidal and self-injuring patients, (3) implementing standard DBT (instead of modified DBT) in combination with exposure therapy for PTSD (PE), and (4) incorporating strategies and procedures designed to address the specific needs and complexities of this patient population. Initial case studies of this treatment have been published previously (Harned & Linehan, 2008) and the present study focused on the continued development and pilot testing of the treatment using an open trial design. Specifically, the current study evaluated whether DBT with the DBT PE Protocol was: (1) associated with improvements in PTSD and intentional self-injury as well as secondary outcomes, (2) feasible to implement, (3) acceptable to patients and therapists, and (4) safe to administer.
Participants were 13 women (aged 18–60) with BPD, PTSD, and recent and/or imminent suicidal behavior or serious NSSI, defined as: (a) recent (past 3 months) suicide attempt or serious NSSI, and/or (b) imminent threat of suicidal behavior (i.e., current moderate to severe suicidal ideation with a suicide plan and intent to commit suicide within the next 4 weeks). Participants were excluded if they met criteria for a psychotic disorder, mental retardation, or bipolar disorder, or were mandated to treatment. All data were collected in accord with IRB approved procedures.
Participants were recruited via outreach to area treatment providers and advertisements. Enrollment and follow-up ran from August 2009 through April 2011. After an initial phone screen, participants completed an in-person assessment to evaluate study inclusion/exclusion criteria. Outcome assessments occurred at 6 months (mid-treatment), 12 months (post-treatment), and 15 months (3-month follow-up). All assessments were conducted by independent clinical assessors who had been trained to reliability by the instrument developer or an approved trainer. A total of 49 individuals completed the initial phone screen, 28 passed the initial phone screen, and 22 completed the in-person screening assessment. Fourteen participants were accepted into the study and, of these, 13 attended at least one therapy session (i.e., the intent-to-treat (ITT) sample).
Therapists (n=6) were primarily female (83.3%), doctoral (50%) or masters-level (50%) clinicians, and had an average of 6.5 years of post-degree clinical experience (SD = 4.2). Individual therapists treated an average of 4.3 patients (SD = 0.6). All but one therapist had attended a DBT Intensive Training and all individual therapists attended a PE Intensive Training and received PE expert consultation on their first two patients.
All patients received one year of standard DBT, including (1) individual therapy (1 hr/wk), (2) group skills training (2.5 hr/wk), (3) phone consultation (as needed), and (4) therapist consultation team meeting (1 hr/wk). The DBT PE Protocol was implemented during the one year of DBT once patients achieved sufficient control over higher-priority targets. Specifically, the following criteria were used to determine readiness to begin the DBT PE Protocol: (1) not at imminent risk of suicide, (2) no recent (past 2 months) suicide attempts or NSSI1, (3) ability to control life-threatening behaviors when in the presence of cues for those behaviors, (4) no serious therapy-interfering behaviors, (5) PTSD is the highest priority target for the patient, and (6) ability and willingness to experience intense emotions without escaping. The DBT PE Protocol was implemented concurrently with standard DBT such that patients received either one combined individual therapy session per week (90 minutes of the DBT PE Protocol and 30 minutes of DBT) or two individual therapy sessions per week (one DBT PE Protocol session (90 minutes) and one DBT session (1 hour)) as well as group DBT skills training and as needed phone consultation. The duration of the DBT PE Protocol was based on continuous assessment of the patient's PTSD symptoms and treatment goals.
The DBT PE Protocol is based on PE (Foa et al., 2007) and utilizes in vivo and imaginal exposure as the primary treatment components. DBT strategies and procedures were incorporated into PE to: (1) increase monitoring of potential negative reactions to exposure (e.g., pre-post exposure ratings of urges to commit suicide), (2) target problems that may occur during or as a result of exposure (e.g., via DBT skills and protocols), and (3) utilize DBT therapist strategies (e.g., dialectics, irreverence, validation) that address the particular needs of severe BPD patients. The protocol also includes procedures for addressing higher-priority behaviors that may occur during the treatment, including a requirement that the protocol be stopped (ideally temporarily) if any form of intentional self-injury recurs. See Harned (in press) for a detailed description of the DBT PE Protocol.
The International Personality Disorder Examination (Loranger, 1995) was used to diagnose Axis II disorders and the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV, Axis I (First, Spitzer, Gibbon, & Williams, 1995) was used to diagnose all Axis I disorders except PTSD. The PTSD Symptom Scale – Interview (PSS-I; Foa, Riggs, Dancu, & Rothbaum, 1993) was used to diagnose PTSD in relation to a specific index trauma. The Traumatic Life Events Questionnaire (Kubany et al., 2000) and the Childhood Experiences Questionnaire (Linehan, unpublished) assessed lifetime history of 25 types of traumatic events.
Feasibility of the treatment was assessed via rates of treatment retention and completion of the DBT PE Protocol. Completing DBT was defined as attending one year of treatment without missing four consecutive weeks of either individual therapy or group skills training. Completing the DBT PE Protocol was defined as completing at least 6 sessions of the protocol.
Participants' preferred treatment (DBT alone, PE alone, or a combined DBT and PE treatment) was assessed at intake using an adapted version of Zoellner and colleagues' (2003) treatment choice measure. An adapted version of the Expectancies Questionnaire (Shaw et al., 1999) assessed patient and therapist treatment expectancies (range = 1–7). The Client Satisfaction Questionnaire (Larsen, Attkisson, Hargreaves, & Nguyen, 1979) measured patients' satisfaction with the treatment at post-treatment (range = 1–4).
Urges to commit suicide and self-injure (range = 0–5) were assessed immediately before and after each individual therapy session, as well as before and after each imaginal and in vivo exposure task (both in-session and homework tasks). The occurrence of suicide attempts, NSSI, and crisis service use (i.e., inpatient hospitalizations, emergency room visits for psychological reasons) during the DBT PE Protocol was measured via the Suicide Attempt Self-Injury Interview (SASII; Linehan, Comtois, Brown, Heard, & Wagner, 2006a) and the Treatment History Interview (Linehan & Heard, unpublished).
The PSS-I (Foa et al., 1993) assessed the presence and severity of PTSD during the past two weeks at each outcome assessment. Reliable change in PTSD symptoms was defined as a change larger than the standard error of the difference between two measurements, given by the formula SED = √[2(SEM2)], where SEM = SD*√(1-r). This value was calculated as a change greater ± 7.53 points using data from a large sample (N = 196) of female assault survivors (Foa, unpublished data).
The SASII (Linehan et al., 2006a) assessed the frequency of suicide attempts and NSSI and the Suicidal Behaviors Questionnaire (Linehan, unpublished work) assessed the frequency of self-reported suicidal ideation at each outcome assessment.
Three self-report measures assessed pathological dissociation (Dissociative Experiences Scale – Taxon; Waller & Ross, 1997), trauma-related guilt cognitions (Trauma Related Guilt Inventory; Kubany et al., 1996), and shame (Experience of Shame Scale; Andrews, Qian, & Valentine, 2002). Interviewer-rated depression and general anxiety were assessed via the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (Hamilton, 1960) and Hamilton Rating Scale for Anxiety (Hamilton, 1959). Social functioning was measured via an interviewer-rated Global Social Adjustment (GSA) score for the worst week in the past month. All outcomes were measured at baseline and each outcome assessment with the exception of GSA (pre-post only).
All outcome analyses were conducted for both the ITT and DBT PE Protocol completer samples. Mixed-effects models (hierarchichal linear models and mixed model analyses of variance) were used to analyze within-group change as a function of time for measures that were assessed at multiple outcome points. Paired-sample t-tests were used for outcomes that were only assessed at pre- and post-treatment. Effect sizes were calculated using Cohen's d statistic following a formula that corrects for the correlation between means in a single-group repeated measures design: d = Mpost − Mpre /SDchange scores, where SDchange scores = √SD2 pre + SD2 post − [(2) (r)(SDpre) (SDpost)]. The sample size of 13 had power of 75.4% to detect a large effect (i.e., d = 0.8) with α=.05 and assuming the within-subject correlation was ρ=0.5.
Participants were an average age of 39.4 years (SD = 11.4), primarily White (69.2%), non-married (61.5%), not college graduates (69.2%), and low income (< $20,000 per year; 90.9%). Participants reported an average of 14.0 types of lifetime trauma (SD = 5.5) beginning before age 6 (M age of onset= 5.2, SD = 3.0). Index traumas included: childhood sexual abuse (61.5%), adult rape (15.4%), childhood physical abuse (7.7%), witnessing family violence (7.7%), and suicide of a parent (7.7%). In the past year, 23.1% had attempted suicide (M attempts = 0.3, SD = 0.6) and 92.3% had engaged in NSSI (M acts = 38.3, SD = 69.3). Participants met criteria for an average of 4.6 current Axis I disorders (SD = 1.4) and 2.2 Axis II disorders (SD = 1.1).
Ten patients (76.9%) completed one year of DBT and 3 (23.1%) dropped out of treatment prematurely. All three patients who dropped out of treatment did so before beginning the DBT PE Protocol and reasons for premature dropout were: moved out of state (n=1), concerns about the pharmacotherapy protocol (n=1), and unknown (n=1).
Of the 10 patients who completed one year of DBT, 100% started the DBT PE Protocol and this occurred at week 18.5 of DBT on average (range = 7–30, SD = 7.7). The majority of these patients (n=7, 70%) completed the DBT PE Protocol in an average of 13.0 sessions (range = 6–19, SD = 4.5) during which an average of 2.4 trauma memories were targeted (range = 1–5, SD = 1.6). Three patients (30%) started but did not complete the DBT PE Protocol (M sessions = 2.7, SD = 0.6, range = 2–3). Reasons for non-completion were: unwilling to experience intense emotions elicited by exposure (n=1), failure to sufficiently control NSSI (n=1), and increased auditory hallucinations (n=1).
At intake, the majority of patients indicated a preference for a combined DBT and PE treatment (n=10, 76.9%) and the remainder preferred to receive DBT only (n=3, 23.1%). Patients reported very positive treatment expectancies at all time points (Ms = 5.5 – 6.4, SDs = 0.4 – 1.0) and were highly satisfied with the treatment they received at post-treatment (M = 3.6, SD = 0.3). Therapist treatment expectancies were also very positive (Ms = 5.5 – 6.1, SDs = 1.3 – 1.4).
As shown in Table 1, the average intensity of pre- and post-session urges to commit suicide and self-injure did not differ between DBT and DBT PE Protocol sessions. There was a significant difference in the pattern of change in urges to commit suicide by session type; namely, suicide urges were more likely to decrease after a DBT PE Protocol session than a DBT session (46.9% vs. 25.8%; χ2 (1) = 8.4, p < .01). The pattern of change in urges to self-injure did not significantly differ between the two types of sessions. Overall, the likelihood of suicide and self-injury urges increasing after individual therapy sessions was low (<20% of sessions) and comparable for DBT and DBT PE Protocol sessions. Similarly, urges to commit suicide and self-injure rarely increased as an immediate result of completing an exposure task (<7% of tasks).
Of the 10 patients who started the DBT PE Protocol, 2 (20%) engaged in intentional self-injury during this portion of the treatment (suicide attempt and NSSI (n=1), NSSI only (n=1)2). The patient who attempted suicide also had two episodes of crisis service use during the DBT PE Protocol, which was not an increase from baseline. No other patients utilized crisis services at any time during the treatment year.
Descriptive data and within-group effect sizes are presented in Table 2 and results of the mixed effects models are shown in Table 3.
There was a large and significant reduction in PTSD severity in the ITT sample and among DBT PE Protocol completers. At post-treatment, the majority of patients had experienced a reliable improvement in PTSD (85.7% of the DBT PE Protocol completers, 70.0% of the ITT sample) and the remainder had no reliable change (14.3% of DBT PE Protocol completers, 30.0% of the ITT sample). Rates of PTSD remission were also high at post-treatment (71.4% of the DBT PE Protocol completers, 60.0% of the ITT sample). Improvements in PTSD severity were maintained in the three months after treatment ended. At 3-month follow-up, PTSD severity remained significantly reduced compared to pre-treatment and rates of reliable improvement (85.7% of DBT PE Protocol completers, 81.8% of the ITT sample) and remission (57.1% of DBT PE Protocol completers, 45.5% of the ITT sample) remained high.
Three patients (27.3%) engaged in intentional self-injury during the study (suicide attempt: n=1, 9.1%, NSSI: n=3, 27.3%). Given the low frequency of intentional self-injury, mixed effects models could not be estimated. Effect sizes for changes in the frequency of intentional self-injury acts were moderate in the ITT sample and large among DBT PE Protocol completers. There was also a significant and large reduction in suicidal ideation in both samples.
Moderate to large pre-post effect sizes were found for all secondary outcomes (i.e., dissociation, trauma-related guilt cognitions, shame, anxiety, depression, global social adjustment) among DBT PE Protocol completers, and for all secondary outcomes except depression in the ITT sample. Mixed effects models found significant reductions across time for the majority of secondary outcomes in both samples and all treatment gains were maintained in the 3 months after treatment ended. Finally, global social adjustment improved significantly from pre- to post-treatment in both samples (p's < .01).
The combined DBT and DBT PE Protocol treatment was acceptable and feasible to implement for the majority of patients. Both patients and therapists reported positive treatment expectancies and patients were highly satisfied with the treatment they received. The rate of treatment dropout was low (23.1%) and comparable to the rate found in a meta-analysis of DBT studies (27.3%; Kliem, Kroger, & Kosfelder, 2010). Of the patients who completed DBT, 100% achieved the stability necessary to begin the DBT PE Protocol and 70% completed it within the year of treatment. The average duration of the DBT PE Protocol (13 sessions) is consistent with PE and the rate of non-completion (30%) is similar to the dropout rate found in PE studies (34%; Foa et al., 2005). These findings suggest that, when administered concurrently with DBT, severe BPD patients do not require significantly lengthier PTSD treatment, nor are they more likely to fail to complete PE than other types of PTSD patients.
The DBT PE Protocol was also safe to implement in this high-risk population. Urges to commit suicide and self-injure rarely increased immediately after completing an exposure task (<7% of tasks) and the intensity of pre- and post-session urges to commit suicide and self-injure did not differ between DBT and DBT PE Protocol sessions. The rates of intentional self-injury relapse and crisis service use during the DBT PE Protocol were both low (10%). More generally, few patients attempted suicide (9.1%) or engaged in NSSI (27.3%) during the study and these rates are lower than those typically found in DBT studies (e.g., Linehan et al., 2006b; McMain et al., 2009). Clinical observations suggest that the low incidence of intentional self-injury was primarily due to making the delivery of the DBT PE Protocol explicitly contingent on achieving control over these behaviors. Specifically, the promise of receiving an effective treatment for a problem viewed by the patient as high-priority appeared to function as a powerful reinforcer to quickly gain control over intentional self-injury. Thus, rather than exacerbating intentional self-injury urges and behaviors, the addition of the DBT PE Protocol to DBT may actually decrease the frequency of these behaviors, particularly among patients who are motivated to receive PTSD treatment.
The treatment was also associated with significant and stable reductions in PTSD. At post-treatment and 3-month follow-up, effect sizes were large (d's = 1.4–2.3), most patients (70–86%) experienced a reliable improvement in PTSD, and no patients exhibited a reliable worsening. The majority of patients also achieved remission from PTSD at post-treatment (DBT PE Protocol completers = 71.4%, ITT = 60.0%). These results are comparable to those found in a meta-analysis of exposure treatments for PTSD (d = 1.6, PTSD remission= 53–68%; Bradley et al., 2005), suggesting that the DBT PE Protocol is as effective as other exposure-based PTSD treatments.
The treatment was also associated with significant improvements in a variety of secondary outcomes, including dissociation, trauma-related guilt, shame, anxiety, depression, and global social adjustment. Thus, the combined DBT and DBT PE Protocol treatment appears to be well-equipped to address a wide range of problems that commonly co-occur with BPD and PTSD.
The primary limitations of the present study are the open trial design and the small sample size. Future randomized controlled trials using larger samples are needed to replicate these findings,
In summary, the present study provides preliminary data supporting the feasibility, acceptability, safety, and potential effectiveness of combining standard DBT with the DBT PE Protocol. This is the first treatment developed specifically for suicidal and self-injuring PTSD patients in general, and those with co-occurring BPD in particular. These patients are often viewed by clinicians as inappropriate for PTSD treatment and many have spent decades receiving mental health services that have not addressed their PTSD. This is concerning not only because of the suffering associated with chronic PTSD, but also because PTSD often maintains or exacerbates suicidality, self-injury, and other BPD-related problems. The present study provides hope for both patients and clinicians that PTSD can be effectively and safely treated in this complex patient population.
This work was supported by grant R34MH082143 from the National Institute of Mental Health to the first author. We would like to thank the patients, therapists, assessors, and staff at the Behavioral Research and Therapy Clinics for their contributions to this research, as well as the staff at the Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety for providing training and consultation. We are also grateful for the statistical consultation provided by Dr. Robert Gallop. Drs. Harned, Korslund, and Linehan are trainers and consultants for Behavioral Tech, LLC.
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Portions of this data were presented at the 2010 convention of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.
1For the purpose of treatment development, one patient was allowed to start the DBT PE Protocol who was still actively engaging in low-risk NSSI.
2The patient who engaged in NSSI only was the patient who was allowed to start the DBT PE Protocol while still engaging in low-risk NSSI. Thus, the NSSI that occurred during the DBT PE Protocol does not constitute a relapse as the behavior had never stopped.
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