Craig Bergman
Bergman
Full Name: Craig Bergman
Age: 41
Single or Married: Married
# of Kids: 2 (Moshe - 3 & Sarah-1)
Profession: Visionary
I’m in the closet. Literally. It’s Saturday night and I escaped my family and fled into my 4x6 closet to type this. I’ve got a bottle of sweet red wine in here with me. The computer is resting on a pillow on my lap. I hear my family closing in on me. “Abba?” Father in hebrew. They’re looking for me.
I’ve been putting this off for a few days. I just need a minute to myself. I hear them laughing and crying and clapping outside the door. I love my family. I’ve wanted this my whole life. But I need to hide in the closet now and drink wine and give this my best shot.
I don’t want men to know how much time I spend obsessing on the spacing of periods and commas. It’s embarrassing to be seen staring into space as I go through my mental rituals. When I was a kid I had a nervous tic, and a cocktail of touretz, OCD, ADD. I don’t want men to know that, and to know how hard or how depressed I get.
But when I’m not depressed, I’m doing amazing things with my life. I am a champion of children. Three years ago I started teaching writing classes to kids, and now I have a kick ass curriculum that I teach in schools.
It’s called Word Up Kids, and although it is starting out as a creative writing class, it is shaping into a psychoeducation class using the expressive arts. That’s a fancy way to say I am helping the kids socially, emotionally, mentally as well as intellectually. Parents are telling me that these classes are helping their kids be more comfortable with themselves, and able to take greater creative risks in their schoolwork.
Now my goal is to package my curriculum and market it to teachers and art therapists, online and in real life. My goal is to hook up with someone who has success in marketing and creating educational tools for children, someone who will become part of Word Up Kids and help me take this program to the next level.
This is my passion. Kids. Creating. Pushing the envelope. Bringing talent together and creating something that benefits people. My heart is big as Texas. I have a lot of light inside this body. My goal is to continue my transition from dark to light.
Another goal is to start Screamroom. I’ve spent the past 4 years getting certified in a psychotherapy modality called Core Energetics which uses physical exercises to get the root of psychological issues. I am starting my first workshop January 27, and my goal is to create a demand for this. I will be teaching simple physical exercises to release stress in an uninhibited, safe space.
My third goal is to continue my karate practice. It grounds me and is literally changing my body and my mental framework. I am a yellow belt, and my goal is to continue on to the Black belt level.
God please let this be the year when my life takes off because my Dad is getting old – he retired last Friday – and I am committed to completing with him. Is that the term, completed? I do not yet feel I am a success. I am still struggling financially, and Word Up Kids is just getting started. My goal is to get to the point where I feel I am a success so I can thank my Dad for everything he has done to get me here.
I’ve always been the black sheep. Now that I am married with kids, and living 3,000 miles away (hometown, New York) there’s more acceptance from my Dad. He respects that I am a Dad, and he likes what I am doing with Word Up Kids. But I really want to have the satisfaction of being financially solid, my program taking off in a huge way, and to let my Dad know he can be proud of me.
Maybe he already is. I don’t know. He doesn’t go in for emotional words. He’s always been there for me and my brothers on a financial level. He never left my mom or cheated or drank or beat us (at least not too bad.) After doing the Sterling weekend, I realized how masculine he is. Sterling said most of our generation says we’re not gonna be like our Dads, but we ought to be saying we are going to be more like our Dads. I hear what he is saying. I do respect my father’s financial solvency and his thick skin. But I think it’s important to let your kids know how you feel about them, and often.
Though lately I notice I am having some conflict with my 3 year old son. Almost four. Going on 20. I see some of my dad’s passive aggression and his disapproving comments and looks coming out of me. I guess my biggest goal is to evolve into the Abba I always wanted to be. And to be the man I want my daughter to marry. And to treat my wife to copious amounts of bullshit and drag home a lot of dead animals I’ve slain for her and the kids.
Age: 41
Single or Married: Married
# of Kids: 2 (Moshe - 3 & Sarah-1)
Profession: Visionary
I’m in the closet. Literally. It’s Saturday night and I escaped my family and fled into my 4x6 closet to type this. I’ve got a bottle of sweet red wine in here with me. The computer is resting on a pillow on my lap. I hear my family closing in on me. “Abba?” Father in hebrew. They’re looking for me.
I’ve been putting this off for a few days. I just need a minute to myself. I hear them laughing and crying and clapping outside the door. I love my family. I’ve wanted this my whole life. But I need to hide in the closet now and drink wine and give this my best shot.
I don’t want men to know how much time I spend obsessing on the spacing of periods and commas. It’s embarrassing to be seen staring into space as I go through my mental rituals. When I was a kid I had a nervous tic, and a cocktail of touretz, OCD, ADD. I don’t want men to know that, and to know how hard or how depressed I get.
But when I’m not depressed, I’m doing amazing things with my life. I am a champion of children. Three years ago I started teaching writing classes to kids, and now I have a kick ass curriculum that I teach in schools.
It’s called Word Up Kids, and although it is starting out as a creative writing class, it is shaping into a psychoeducation class using the expressive arts. That’s a fancy way to say I am helping the kids socially, emotionally, mentally as well as intellectually. Parents are telling me that these classes are helping their kids be more comfortable with themselves, and able to take greater creative risks in their schoolwork.
Now my goal is to package my curriculum and market it to teachers and art therapists, online and in real life. My goal is to hook up with someone who has success in marketing and creating educational tools for children, someone who will become part of Word Up Kids and help me take this program to the next level.
This is my passion. Kids. Creating. Pushing the envelope. Bringing talent together and creating something that benefits people. My heart is big as Texas. I have a lot of light inside this body. My goal is to continue my transition from dark to light.
Another goal is to start Screamroom. I’ve spent the past 4 years getting certified in a psychotherapy modality called Core Energetics which uses physical exercises to get the root of psychological issues. I am starting my first workshop January 27, and my goal is to create a demand for this. I will be teaching simple physical exercises to release stress in an uninhibited, safe space.
My third goal is to continue my karate practice. It grounds me and is literally changing my body and my mental framework. I am a yellow belt, and my goal is to continue on to the Black belt level.
God please let this be the year when my life takes off because my Dad is getting old – he retired last Friday – and I am committed to completing with him. Is that the term, completed? I do not yet feel I am a success. I am still struggling financially, and Word Up Kids is just getting started. My goal is to get to the point where I feel I am a success so I can thank my Dad for everything he has done to get me here.
I’ve always been the black sheep. Now that I am married with kids, and living 3,000 miles away (hometown, New York) there’s more acceptance from my Dad. He respects that I am a Dad, and he likes what I am doing with Word Up Kids. But I really want to have the satisfaction of being financially solid, my program taking off in a huge way, and to let my Dad know he can be proud of me.
Maybe he already is. I don’t know. He doesn’t go in for emotional words. He’s always been there for me and my brothers on a financial level. He never left my mom or cheated or drank or beat us (at least not too bad.) After doing the Sterling weekend, I realized how masculine he is. Sterling said most of our generation says we’re not gonna be like our Dads, but we ought to be saying we are going to be more like our Dads. I hear what he is saying. I do respect my father’s financial solvency and his thick skin. But I think it’s important to let your kids know how you feel about them, and often.
Though lately I notice I am having some conflict with my 3 year old son. Almost four. Going on 20. I see some of my dad’s passive aggression and his disapproving comments and looks coming out of me. I guess my biggest goal is to evolve into the Abba I always wanted to be. And to be the man I want my daughter to marry. And to treat my wife to copious amounts of bullshit and drag home a lot of dead animals I’ve slain for her and the kids.
