Scion of NLP

To All My Loved Ones,

It was really great to see a couple of you again. I know that when I was on leave from the front lines I wasn’t able to get in touch with everybody but please know that I wanted to — you are all in my heart, forever. Sarge says that if things stay quiet I’ll continue to get even more chances to come visit.

Lately the enemy has been putting less and less effort in fighting back, and when I utilize my NLP-Fu I can usually overpower them in one shot. Granted, this doesn’t mean that life is all better — I’m still back at work full-time does something other than my life’s passion (NLP), my business is still struggling (for the moment), the bank is still breathing down my neck, and I’m still behind on my rent (bless the kind people who have helped out on that one — YOU ROCK! — and I’ll be forever grateful) — but things have changed enough for me to see all those ‘negative’ things as just ‘temporary setbacks’ rather than signs of the impending death of all my life’s hopes and dreams. For the time, I remain in a constant state of numbness in order to stay in control of the rebellious habits that make up the faction of my mind commonly referred to by psychologists as ‘My Depression.’

In no time I expect my energy reserves will be up enough to get back to work on building my NLP career, catching up on paying some of the company’s debts with a second job and expanding my circle of business friends and relations… maybe soon I’ll be ready to even go out and see people again! Boo-ya!

Anyway, as it is, I probably won’t need to send any more letters from the front lines (at least for a while) because I’ll be able to stay in touch with everybody when I’m back home and being my true self (the happy, positive, patient, silly, can-do-anything Daniel that ya’all know and love). It’ll be good to get back to responding to emails, taking phone calls, get’n shit done, and making time to play with my son.

Oh crap! I gotta go everybody — Sarge just gave me a look to remind me I need to get some chow… one of the things all of us on the front lines of depression gotta do each and every day in order to stay in control of those unhealthy habits and negative filters is to eat and exercise — something a lot of the guys and gals out here forget to do — lucky for me that Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and NLP gave me the ability to put a well trained Sargeant in charge of my unit, otherwise I’d never choose to do those kinds of things when I’m in the midst of battling anger and angst.

Coming home soon,
Daniel

P.S. Tell my little boy not to fear, he’ll see the real dad I can be again soon.

Related posts:

1. This Soldier’s Letter from the Front Lines
2. Another Letter From My Personal Hell
3. Continuing News from the Battlefront
4. Lessons in Life’s Poop
5. Be happy? … Sorry, I have other plans.

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