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- 3 days ago
- 2 min
Being liked
I always find the run up to Christmas challenging but it also gets easier each year. I used to have a melt down every October at the...
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- Nov 25
- 2 min
A good week
I had an email in my inbox this week from Sarah Woodhouse( https://sarahwoodhouse.com/about-me/) Those of us with relational trauma often...
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- Nov 17
- 3 min
Family weekend and not blogging
I’ve found it a struggle to blog recently, maybe I need to unpick that a bit, not necessarily this post. One thing I do know, I...
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- Sep 3
- 2 min
Meeting up with a friend and thinking about clothes
I’m still adjusting to being me. I’ve revisited Pema Chodron’s book as I tend to find whatever bit I start reading is often helpful. So...
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- Aug 28
- 2 min
Talk the talk or Walk the Walk
So I’m now relaxing after our family visit. Overall I think it went well. After “outing” myself as neurodiverse we had our first full on...
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- Aug 21
- 1 min
Happy Families
Over the weekend I outed myself to some more of the extended family as neurodiverse which has been the right thing to do but it makes me...
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- Jun 26
- 2 min
Thumb and second person
I was listening to a vlog today where someone was recommending a book called Chatter by Ethan Kross. I haven’t read it but the vlogger...
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- May 21
- 2 min
Ok, I'm getting good and messy with the printing
So I had a good day starting to get stuck in. Just getting my hands dirty again. And in a huge life parallel, there is so much internal...
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- Apr 2
- 2 min
Cello and horses
Busy old week with two very different enterprises. So a few weeks ago I had mentioned my continuing preoccupation about the cello. The...
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- Mar 9
- 2 min
Rewiring faulty circuits
I recently was sent an email from Sarah Woodhouse https://sarahwoodhouse.com who is a trauma specialist and psychologist. She was...
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- Nov 3, 2022
- 2 min
Still trying to catch up with topics...
Firstly, COVID. Yes I’m still below par, but slowly improving. I had a “boom and bust” last week where I did my usual exercise classes...
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- Sep 22, 2022
- 2 min
Anxiety when good things happen
So we were successful with our bids for the piano! We visited it and I played it, tried lots of others too. My piano tuner had told me I...
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- Sep 15, 2022
- 2 min
Endings and shiftings
I’ve not particularly wanted to write about the Queen’s death but it’s become almost the elephant in the room now, it seems crazy to...
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- Jul 31, 2022
- 3 min
Trip to London
I got back last night from my course and today am catching up with myself and all my jobs, one of which is writing here. So did I learn...
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- Jul 3, 2022
- 2 min
Rocks
I’m writing this ahead to time as I’ve got a very busy end of week coming up. The last few days have been filled with anxiety. Why did I...
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- Jun 24, 2022
- 3 min
Signed up for a course!
I posted a few weeks ago about what I might do in the future and then an email dropped into my account with a newsletter from LDComics....
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- May 13, 2022
- 2 min
Still with the health stuff
A weird, full on week, overall. In the last 10 days I have seen 5 different medics for 3 different issues! Having not seen any doctors...
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- May 6, 2022
- 2 min
Interesting times (for me personally)
We have all been living through “interesting times” recently with the pandemic and now the war in Ukraine but this week I have been going...
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- Feb 27, 2022
- 2 min
Family Visit
often dread people coming to visit. I’m such an extreme introvert that it is a struggle having people invade my safe space with their...
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- Jan 29, 2022
- 2 min
I'm back, plus Fear
That was a tough week. I’m so self conscious, making an audio tape presentation to hand in for my coursework was a killer. Not to mention...
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