Hi ATS! It's been a while since I lurked around these parts. Current events have brought me back.
I plan to have a permaculture therapy farm where I can help people overcome hopelessness, the despair, the learned helplessness that comes with it-
and it’s star progeny: depression and addiction with minimal use of drugs.
I have a plan to make this farm as self sustainable as possible, between plants, animals, using green energy initiatives. A place that will give more
than just hope and coping mechanisms to those that visit, but a new way of thinking and living that they can take with them and show others.
I've got some problems. I've also got some solutions- but I need help in the execution. I have a tendency over complicate things, and I overwhelm
myself.
This started last year when I realized that if I don't get my dogs out of our current living situation, that it will kill them. One has physical
health problems exacerbated by our living situation, and the other has mental health issues and is endangered in this place where there is no fence
and he must always be tied. You know what that does to a dog. I don't want him to become a negative statistic.
My original idea was to just get an RV and go live as a boondocker, working as needed...but there was no real end goal other than I've been a roamer
since I could walk, and dogs are meant to roam as well, so this would be perfect.
Now after the serious changes I've made in my life, I want to use the methods I used on myself to help others so that they too can crawl out of that
lethargic torpidity that is severe depression. I've had to trick myself into feeling better- it's slow going, but I'm falling for it. I'm using
neuro-linguistic programming 24/7. I started with a file for 'becoming addicted to exercise.' It's worked. Placebo or not, doesn't matter. I've built
a new [good] habit, and I am feeling so incredibly much better. One year later I'm working off my last few pounds; I can think again; I can create
again, I sing every day again.............. and I'm trying to work out how to start a therapy farm so that I can help other people come out of this
hole.
My plan so far: Get my drivers license back- I haven't had it in 15 years. Biking had been easier til now. I actually have a friend gifting me a 1973
Superior 2200 motorhome. It runs but needs cleaning up and updating. This thing isn't going to be a star in the fuel usage department...but they're
TANKS! Zinc coated steel frame with sheet steel with a dodge 413. It's only 20' but the dogs would have the -best- back yard!
Once I have the RV and we're mobile, I plan on spamming the country the old fashioned way with flyers etc asking for donations. you know 'boot
strapping it.' I will put them in peoples mail boxes if I can, haha. I want to save the effin world, damn it!
I can work on the road- I will do mosaic patios, floors, wall treatments etc. I can join the craft show circuits, there's tons of things I can do...I
just don't know how to get started. At all. I'm trying to make a website with Wixa, but I just feel so overwhelmed with ........wth do I say? I
started a facebook page [Operation Smiling Jenny]; I have not started a crowdfunding thing but I think I've settled on gogetfunding for that. I have
no idea how to do that either. It's just me. I have no friends and no seed capital atm. I'll need an entire team for this. Do I find those people on
the road? I mean seriously. How is one person supposed to get this done? I just want to pull my hair out...but I have to do this.
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