My Life through a DnD Lens

Hi. My name is Barb.

I'm going to take you on an adventure.

To go on this adventure, you will need to prepare

and get a few things organized to move forward.

We will need to look at how we got to

this point by looking back at the lead adventurers history,

which will help you to understand why it is important

that she travels with the group she travels with and

takes the roads that she takes.

So we're going to need two things to start on

this adventure.

We're going to need a map and we're going to

need adventurers.

First, let me introduce you to the adventurers.

Mhm. Oh, our first adventurers, Betty.

But he is going to take going on this adventure

with us in spirit because she did not survive a

harrowing battle with cancer.

But she is a fundamental character in this mission.

Betty is going to play the role of the doting

mother and grandmother.

You as a lead adventure, will have built secure attachment

to her growing up and you won't need.

And she will help you to see the importance offsetting

appropriate boundaries with others while maintaining a meaningful relationship with

Um but he will teach you the importance of community

by encouraging you to make long lasting relationships.

What our next adventure is your mother, Pamela.

Even though you had a secure relationship with her as

a child, as an adolescent and a young adult, your

relationship with her was not a strong and secure as

you would have hoped it would have been.

She was either working or ills.

Throughout this time.

She was also insecure and inconsistent in her own relationships.

However, the longer you are on the road with your

mother, the more security relationship will become.

She will make choices that will seem bizarre.

A tw the time.

But you will learn to accept them because she is

your mother.

The next part of person on this mission is Juanita.

She will encourage you to do well in your studies

and foster growth and achievement in you.

He will also play the role of your mother, your

older sister and your aunt.

She will be there to support you and help you.

She will encourage you to foster a sense of self

worth and teach you to respect yourself and respect others.

She will also encourage you and teach you how to

be a productive member of society.

Like Betty, She will teach you that to thrive, you

need a sense of community.

And lifelong friendships are the key to success.

After Betty, we will meet Sam.

Sam will meet you much later on the path.

But you will resonate with him in the desire to

help people.

And he will provide you with clarity and kinship.

Sam is a state relationship for you and will encourage

you to further your studies and learn new skills.

Sam will keep you calm and give you energy by

making you laugh.

You will need this on the journey because laughter will

become an important commodity on your journey.

The last person you're going to travel with on this

particular journey.

You will also meet further along the path She is

Liz. She will show you what it's like to be

welcomed into a pre existing community.

She will show you a sense of hospitality.

Your relationship with the Liz will often feel strained, but

not because she is not accepting and understanding of you,

but because she will drain you of energy just because

you start off on the adventure with a few people

doesn't mean that there aren't others that are going to

be able to join you along the way.

Some of the non player companions Air Justus important as

the main characters in this adventure.

You will meet these characters, but it's in important that

you know just how important they are, getting you what

you need to go.

They will give you clarity, encourage you to create and

build on both relationships and skills.

They will.

I understand your desire for more connection and support you

through the times when they get rough.

Some of the M PCs are your doctors, your extended

and made up family.

And, of course, your dog.

Now, before we get to the map, you will need

to know some of the secrets that will help you

navigate. You will need to know what causes you to

dis regulate and what helps you to regulate.

These things are important part of the journey because they're

going to get you through the times when you are

traveling alone, and you need to be able to take

care of yourself first.

Stress is your trigger.

If you are stressed, bad things start to happen.

You will start to cry and start to avoid people.

You will feel lonely and hopeless.

You will feel dis regulated.

Don't let stress get the best of you.

In order to keep it together, you're going to want

to reach out to the other adventurers.

You will also find that you are most grounded when

you were with your family.

This will be an important part because they will be

there when you fall down.

And there are giant mountains on this path.

So you're going to want someone to catch you.

It's going to be necessary.

Also. You will find that water.

It gives you energy not just by drinking water but

being surrounded by it.

You will want to search out lakes, rivers, streams and

oceans. Last but not least, not everyone will have the

skills or compatibility that you will need all at the

same time.

Yeah, all at the same time.

If you use your resource is wisely, you will come

out on top.

Each person on your mission will have varying skills.

These skills will get shoot where you need to go

when you need to go.

Yeah, or get there it's important that you know how

to use these skills and utilize your players in this

game. Now I think you're ready to see the adventure

where this adventure is going to take us.

And just how important are math is to get us

there. Now, let me warn you, this adventure isn't for

the faint of heart.

You will encounter dark forest, treacherous mountains in various creatures

lurking in the depths.

You will start this journey in Minneapolis, a large city

at the Southern point of the map.

It's important to know that this journey will get you.

We'll start off fairly slow.

You will spend the 1st 18 years of the journey

in this area.

You will live in the same house with the three

same three strong independent women.

Each one will play a different role, but all will

have a significant role to play.

This is where you will meet Betty, Juanita and Pamela.

Pamela, who is your biological mother, will play the biggest

role in your spiritual upbringing.

You will be baptized in the Catholic Church and go

to church with her on Sundays.

Pamela will also encourage you to go to cataclysm and

to complete your first communion.

When you are eight years into your journey, you will

be popular in grade school and as you get older,

people will start to pick on you.

Here you will enter a dark forest.

There will be a small it path for you to

follow where you will meet some minor characters.

In this adventure, they will befriend you and help you

through this dark time.

Once out of the forest, you will go to high

school. Here you will have met three adventures from early

on that will stay with you.

During this time, you will have to swim fast and

hit hard to keep up with the other players on

your team.

This is where you will.

You will fail and decided to move towards the base

of the mountains because climbing them at this point will

seem daunting.

But staying where you but staying put will remain treacherous.

You will leave high school early to go to college.

Here you will continue to learn new languages and study

various topics.

Believe it or not, you will study religion and seek

out different faith groups in search of community.

This will be important because life choices will be made

here. But the four moving on from this place you

will fight a dragon.

The dragon is pure evil and was yet and yet

made up of the same stuff you are.

The dragon will whisk you away in your will.

Whisk away your ability to walk an attempt to prevent

you from climbing out of the mountains.

You will become depressed and hopeless.

You will have to have back surgery.

When you before you are able to crawl out of

the mountains surrounding your school, you will defeat the dragon.

But beware.

There is one there where there's one there are bound

to be more lurking in the depths.

After the dragon, you will have to fight the orcs

in the mountains.

The orcs create an evil sense of depression and you

will be locked up in their camp for several months.

Mhm. While you are locked, you will discover the death

of a close friend.

This will be devastating to you.

Once you are out of college and defeat a dragon

and the orcs, you will feel strong and powerful.

You will feel the urge to get out on your

own and move across the country to make it to

a place called Las Vegas.

This will be a horrible idea.

You will be in a new climate and you will

be all alone.

This will cause a sense of negative stress.

Beware. You might be out of the old mountains, but

there But here you will be in the desert.

There will be nowhere to ground yourself.

No water to provide you energy.

You will feel lost.

Fortunately there This will only last a few weeks and

you will return to Minneapolis to re ground yourself.

You will be surrounded by the lakes and the rivers.

This will make.

Then you will make another split second decision and move

away again.

This time you will have more support.

You will meet an old companion in your journey and

things will go relatively smoothly.

You will take a job as a director and a

behavioral day program and you will meet your first love.

You will live in chaos because the characters in the

this part of the mission will be chaos.

You will thrive and love every minute of it until

you run into the mountain.

Works once again.

This time they will not only bring you depression, but

anger and instability.

They will take away your housing and your partner will

move on without you without you leaving you homeless and

alone. You will have support as you move through this

other characters in the journey will show you the hospitality

and community.

You will move through the mountains and defeat the orcs

one more time.

As always, you will travel back to Minneapolis ST Paul

and start fresh.

Here you will meet doctors that word talked about earlier

in the game and we'll give you clarity.

They will give you a diagnosis of bipolar two versus

depression and they will give you the ability to adapt.

They will stick by your side for eight years of

the journey.

You will also meet a doctor who will diagnose you

with rheumatoid arthritis, which will make you feel hurt.

You will be productive and accomplish more work over in

the next few years.

The journey will feel very lonely.

And it will take a major event to change that.

You will be hospitalized for your anxiety because you have

worked for an ogre.

Yeah, you will have on Lee the support of your

family and the lack.

You will only have the support of your family and

lack the community you have developed out in California.

The Internet will become your friend and the only way

to connect to the past characters.

Finally, we'll discover a camp outside of the mountains and

the dark force.

And you will meet the godless gamers.

They will save your life and your sanity.

The group you travel with, right, we'll travel with you

for the remainder of the journey.

You will not always get along with everyone in the

group, but you will feel accepted and calm while you

travel with.

Um This is where you will meet Sam and Liz.

These two adventurers will travel by your side for the

last leg of the journey.

This will be for you or they will be there

for you when you have to again attempt to defeat

the dragon.

This dragon will have two heads.

One will do its best to kill you literally.

It will try and kill you, But with the help

of salmon, Liz, you will defeat it.

You will be able to crawl out in the mountains

and connect more openly with the atheist community.

They will support you to the end of this adventure.

However, the end of this adventure is not the end

of your journey.

You will have many other missions to complete before the

journey is complete.

There will be mountains and possibly more dragons.

And okay or to defeat Mhm that you.

But you have defeated them in the past.

You could do it.

Good luck as you embark on the journey ahead.

Remember, this is my journey, not yours.

Yours will be different.

My Life through a DnD Lens

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