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Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today’s video, I’ll show you how I text and email handwritten thank yous and other notes. I know that handwritten snail mail notes are still the gold standard for thank you letters.  However, I am convinced that our standards have to be shifting a little with all of the new and more commonly used ways of communicating.  I already use a fun service called Felt to send handwritten snail mail cards with photos and other elements  — you can see my video on that if you are interested.  But I think it is becoming more acceptable to send gratitude, sympathy and other regards through quicker modes of communicating. It seems somewhat insane to pop a card in the mail to have it arrive 4 days later when you can send an email that will be received in seconds.  My problem is that I find the typewritten e-cards that are available a little too impersonal.   Some people love animated cards like the ones available from Jacquie Lawso

Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today's video, I'll share how I use Notability for short-term notes along with Google Drive for longer term storage. I use three different note taking applications: Evernote, Notability, and Google Drive.  This may seem confusing, but I have rules about how I use each service. Evernote - this is my main note taking app.  It is where I store things to remember, book summaries, recipes, and all of my YouTube scripts.  If I'm going to type a note, it's usually going to be in Evernote. Notability - is what I use for handwritten notes.  So, that means diagrams, forms that need to be filled out, music notation, mind maps, and handwritten notes for training, classes, and clients. Google Drive - is where I keep all of my spreadsheets and presentations.  I think best in spreadsheet format, so that's where I plan most of my projects.  I also use Google Drive for notes or documents where formatting is imp

Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today's video I'll share how I use Notability to create all kinds of diagrams and floor plans on my iPad. Notability is my go-to app for handwritten notes.  Or really anything that can't be put into a spreadsheet or typed out.  That means that it is the tool I use for pictographic images.  I have a basic tutorial video for Notability and one on how to use Notability for Mind Maps, but in this video, I'll show you how easy it is to create other kinds of diagrams and floor plans in Notability. I find it easy to sketch out diagrams or images that I'm going to use in a presentation in Notability before formalizing the design.  That way I can make tweaks before committing a lot of time and resources to the final design.   The nice thing is that Notability provides some tools to make your drawings easier and better without a lot of extra effort.   Let's go through them: Auto Shape - first of all N

Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today's video, I'll give you my summary and takeaways from the book -- Attachment in Psychotherapy by David J. Wallin, PhD. I'm doing my residency as a mental health therapist and am reading a ton of books so that I can be as helpful as possible to my clients.  Some of these books, such as this one, fall pretty hard into the "training manual for clinicians" category, but it really helps me to synthesize the information better when I summarize for you, so I'm putting it out there for anyone who might be interested or is considering buying this book. The more research I do, the more convinced I become that our attachment history is at the heart of most of our relationship and emotional issues as adults.  By attachment, I mean the quality of the relationship with our primary caretaker as infants.  The more I learn, the more significant I believe the impact is -- on our sense of self, on our ab