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“Lieutenant Wilson, congratulations! A new nightmare means it's working – your brain has broken out of its old patterns and is dealing with new material to bring to your therapist's attention! I promise you this is progress, and the more you honestly deal with as your subconscious mind helps you out, the better!”
Mrs. Thalia Ludlow smiled as she listened to her husband encouraging a fellow officer going through the same intensive therapy process he had gone through.
“I've never told you how beautiful your huge bass voice is while encouraging others,” she said to Capt. R.E. Ludlow,“but you know I'm one of eight Ludlows who love it. When you say it is possible, we believe it!”
“I know,” he said, “which is why I had to do the work I now encourage others to do, because our little ones will believe anything I tell them, and also believe how I tell them. Having a voice like this is a massive responsibility; it has so much weight that must be used for good.”
“Nobody needs a new nightmare out of it,” Mrs. Ludlow said, “except those making trouble for someone else.”
“Well, like I said, a new nightmare is a pattern breaker,” Capt. Ludlow said. “If I catch someone doing foolery, and speak to them about it, that is going to represent progress in their life, even if the progress is running for their lives away from the foolery they were doing!
Mrs. Ludlow laughed.
“Just another form of solid encouraegment, Robert!”
“Exactly!” he said. “For those that need a bit extra … but that's not you and that's not our grandchildren, needing that kind of extra! I need all of you to run to me, not away from me!”