Sh*t Happens: The Book

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Whether it’s a breakup, divorce, issues with your kids, your health, or a death in the family, life happens. Sh*t happens. So what do we do when the professional demands keep mounting when things seem out of control in our personal lives?

Message of This Sh*t Happens All the Time still relevant Derry actress Caoimhe Farren is taking on the challenge of performing a one-woman show, telling a true story of homophobic hate crime in 1990s Belfast. She tells Gail Bell why it is still a story for our timesWhile it is possible to start memorizing the misery index scores, there are enough cards to prevent that from happening for a while, especially if you mix in expansions (which use decimal points!). In any event, the game is less about who wins and more about the process.Can SHIT HAPPENS turn 2020 around? I guess anything is possible at this point!

It’s natural, the Stoics said, to instinctively react negatively to a bad event. It’s what we do next that matters. We have the power to choose how we apply value judgements – after our initial reaction, we don’t always need to classify something as good or bad. It isn’t sh*t happening that upsets us, but our judgement that sh*t is happening. Second, when circumstances seem out of control, it’s important to focus on what you CAN control. Here are a few ideas: Your breathing. You can control that. Which means you can control how your nervous system is reacting to the circumstances. You can control your thoughts. You can control how you view it. You can control how much power you want to give the circumstance. You have a lot of power, freedom, and choice. You can control how you show up and respond. You have much more agency than you think or may realize when things otherwise seem in a tailspin.

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The datum: "That shit happens all the time." In "The Police as Perceived by Negro Boys", ed. Carl Werthman; in The American City: A Source Book of Urban Imagery, edited by Anselm L. Strauss (Chicago: Aldine, 1968), p.285. Here in Google Books. A footnote says that Werthman's short contribution to the book is "Excerpted from 'Gang members and the police', unpublished M.A. thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 1964." Presented as part of Imagine! Festival of Ideas and Politics, This Stuff Still Happens (as it was demurely referred to on a local radio interview) is set in Belfast in 1992 and based on Verlaque’s own experience of coming out as gay, falling in love and having her life threatened by her new lover’s homophobic ex-boyfriend.

How to play: Each player gets three cards. Each card has an event and a misery index score on it. You place the cards face up in front of you from lowest to highest. The player to your right will read a card and you have to place it in the proper place in your ‘line of pain.’ If you get it right, you add it to your line. If you get it wrong, the player to you left can steal it by placing it in the right spot in his/her line of pain. The first player to snag ten cards wins. Remember, everyone has varying degrees of challenges. We are all in this thing called life together. Be kind, you never know someone else’s pain they’re powering through. Be there for each other. When you’re up and someone else is down, offer to lend a hand if you can.

Series 1, Episode 3 - Sh*t Happens

Set of 2 bathroom Sh*t happens, & Take a seat funny unframed prints|toilet prints|funny wall art|bathroom pictures|bathroom accessories|art Multi-Dimensional artist who makes and wears her own clothes, paints. Inward and outward looking, ethereal, indie artist who has been compared to Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush, Elizabeth Fraser and the Cranberries... SH_T Happens has its world premiere at the 76th Venice Film Festival (28.08 - 07.09.2019) and its directors are looking forward to watching for the first time the film with an audience. What are the most effective strategies for working with clients who have experienced grief and loss? MM - DS: It was kind of spontaneous idea. We were discussing the title possibilities with our producer Peter, and when we were talking about the title SHIT HAPPENS, someone pointed out that maybe for some people it can be a little bit vulgar. So we had this idea to put a dash in there, so it won't be a word: shit anymore. But we all know that it is :)