{"id":444,"date":"2008-10-11T03:35:50","date_gmt":"2008-10-11T03:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/2008\/10\/11\/back-from-a-speech-and-im-stable\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T10:02:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:02:06","slug":"back-from-a-speech-and-im-stable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/back-from-a-speech-and-im-stable\/","title":{"rendered":"Back from a Speech- and I’m stable!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a great time last night- I went to Eugene, Oregon for a talk sponsored by NAMI Lane County. I just can’t say enough about how great everyone was and what a pleasure it was to meet so many people.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Here is why I was able to travel and speak without getting sick like I used to:<\/p>\n

\u00a0– I was home early the night before and I went to sleep early.<\/p>\n

\u00a0– I actually had a books ready ahead of time. I don’t like merchandising- few speakers do!- but selling my books is\u00a0essential when I speak.<\/p>\n

– The event was completely planned by NAMI Lane County.\u00a0 I can plan or I can speak. I can’t do both. To be honest, I don’t do very well when it comes to planning, but I can always speak if an event is well structured.<\/p>\n

I can go on and on here, but my point is that those of us with bipolar disorder CAN reach our dreams and work- as long as the situation around the work is very structured.\u00a0 I have made some difficult choices in the past year – such as not dating -that allow me to speak professionally. It’s a trade off for sure, but it’s working.\u00a0 I really believe that as I get better and my life is more structured, I will be able to date and have a relationship in the future. For now, I want to stay well enough to work!<\/p>\n

Julie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had a great time last night- I went to Eugene, Oregon for a talk sponsored by NAMI Lane County. I just can’t say enough about how great everyone was and what a pleasure it was to meet so many people.<\/p>\n

Here is why I was able to travel and speak without getting sick like I used to:<\/p>\n

– I was home early the night before and I went to sleep early.<\/p>\n

– I actually had a books ready ahead of time. I don’t like merchandising- few speakers do!- but selling my books is essential when I speak.<\/p>\n

– The event was completely planned by NAMI Lane County. I can plan or I can speak. I can’t do both. To be honest, I don’t do very well when it comes to planning, but I can always speak if an event is well structured.<\/p>\n

I can go on and on here, but my [ Read More ]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12166,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/12166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}