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Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today's video, I'll share the bamboo forest metaphor that helps me to understand how EMDR or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing works. I've just completed intensive training for EMDR, which is a body-based method that is used in mental health therapy.  Most notably, EMDR is used to process traumatic memories quickly -- particularly for people who are experiencing  PTSD.  But it turns out that most of the negative thoughts and emotions that we all have can be traced back to past unpleasant memories —even if they are not what you might consider traumatic.  And processing those memories with EMDR can help to eliminate the current negative thoughts and feelings too.  Because of this, EMDR can be used to treat a wide variety of mental health concerns including anxiety, depression, OCD, eating disorders, hoarding, and phobias -- just to name a few.  In addition, since EMDR helps to calm the body'

Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock with the Marble Jar channel and in today's video, I'll show you how I quickly and easily create hyperlinked cells in the mobile version of Google Sheets using the iOS Mail app. I'm aware that this is a niche issue, but I use this hack all the time, so I thought I'd share the trick I use.  Here's the thing.  It's super easy to create a hyperlinked cell in Google Sheets from a computer.  While on the cell you want to link, just hit Command + K on a Mac and Control + K on a PC, paste in the URL and hit apply and you've got a nice hyperlinked cell that brings up a link to the website when you click on or hover over the cell. The problem is that it's more involved for the mobile version of Google Sheets.  In fact, it really requires you to write a somewhat complicated formula that involves too much cutting and pasting and quote marks for my taste.  SO, here's my trick.  Before I show you this, you should know that somet

Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel.  Today is the second in a two part series about the app that my public library uses to access digital books and audiobooks -- the Libby App.  This video is an update to the one that I did in 2019, which featured the old interface. In my first video, I talked about the pros and cons of using the Libby app to check out digital and audiobooks from the library.  For me the positives obviously far outweigh the negatives, since I use this app all of the time.  So, now let me show you around. My public library has a partnership with Overdrive, which is a distributor for digital resources like eBooks and audiobooks.  Their Libby app allows library patrons to check out these resources using their library credentials.  I'm going to show you the iPad version of Libby since it is easier for you to see on YouTube, but they also make versions for Android and the iPhone.   Once you download Libby, you'll need to sign in using yo

Hi, everyone.  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today's video, I'll share my thoughts on the non-fiction book summary app -- Headway. I'm read a lot of non-fiction books and yet -- there will always books I never get to -- my eyes are always bigger than my stomach when it comes to reading.  And here is the thing -- some books are worth reading every single word of, but some books I can live with just an overall summary.  I would say probably most books fall into the latter category.  So, that's where non-fiction book summary apps come in.  They give you about a 15 minute summary of a book.  This can help you determine whether you want to read more or whether that bare bones synopsis was enough.  A while back, I had a subscription to Blinkist, but recently I was approached by Headway to take a look at their app, so I'm going to give you my thoughts.  First off,  I love the concept.  Take a 300 to 500 page book, boil it down into about 10 pages

Hi, everyone!  This is  Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today's video, I'll share my process for moving files and changing ownership from one Google Drive account to another.  This is particularly useful when trying to move files out of a closed system like a school or work domain. I recently graduated from a masters degree program and was told, unsurprisingly, that I would lose access to my school Google Account about 4 weeks after classes ended.  I was pretty much expecting this, but after 4 years saving documents and spreadsheets to the school's Google Drive account, I had a lot of documents that I didn't want to lose.  So, the question was, what is the best way to  transfer all of these school documents out of my school account and into my personal account?  Clearly, the easiest thing would be to share all of those documents with my personal account.  The problem?  If the owner for the document is my school Google account and that account went away,