Approximate reading time: 9 min I hope you have had a good week so far. My week has been a little bit of a manic mess. (A far, far cry from last week!) I have been dogsitting lovely grampa Colin while continuing to look after Bailey for 3 days, and then walking Dolly as well. …
Category: Anxiety/Depression
Big Girl Pants
Approximate reading time: 2 min Written 18th March 2021 Today I’m proud I’m so proud of me Please allow me a moment to gloat with glee Today I spoke up I made a choice Rather than keeping quiet I used my voice It felt pretty amazing to be honest, take a chance rather than continuing …
Hand on my heart
Approximate Reading time: 3 min Written the 5 March 2021 I had a CI training session last night I was determined there wouldn’t be a bloody tear in sight Last week’s session I was a weeping, blubbering mess overwhelmed and confused about stupid flatmate stress So, I chose a topic that was safe and mundane …
A busy couple of weeks
Approximate Reading time:12 min I feel like I haven’t written in months. My biggest apologies, but I have been knee-deep in online journals attempting to piece together my second assignment which was due today! I am finally finished and it feels a little bit like heaven at the moment!;-) Can I just say that finishing …
Todays Lesson
Written the 28th February 2021 you know I’d hoped I was done for the day no such luck I clearly have much more to say today in CI training 18 people in our group for a minute and a half I had to ‘check-in’- give the scoop on how I was feeling what’s going through …
Knitting words
Approximate reading time: 23 minutes It’s been a good week. I finished my first master’s assignment, so feeling relatively proud of myself:-) Although can I just say how grateful I am that I’m not a full-time academic. I am currently working on my next assignment which is about comparing the symptoms of Developmental Trauma with …
1%
Approximate reading time: 10 minutes I have writer’s block. I do. I hate it when this happens….I have been so excited to write the final attachment post. And yet It’s a dismal state of affairs. (Sometimes I feel like the only thing 100% consistent about me is my innate ability to be completely inconsistent!) Were …
Jealousy
Approximate reading time: 5 min You see this is why I could never be a professional writer….. my inability to follow through and finish the bloody assignment would mean I would undoubtably be fired in roughly 3 weeks. I can almost hear the editor now: Oh, you mean the one on the Anxious Avoidant style? …
Let it be
Approximate reading time: 3 min 16th February 2021 Another beautiful day, sitting quietly on my own. Painting random pictures to accompany all my poems. Listening to hours of transcripts (therapy sessions with Gabor) So much this man teaches just resonates to my core. The doorbell rings, a surprise delivery for me? are those Blooms Flowers …
The Hug
Approximate reading time: 5 Minutes Well as fate would have it, no sooner than I finished the last blog post, I got a message from my estate agent saying that the tenant will sign for a year…..so disaster averted I’m back in my happy place:-) All that worry and angst…for nothing I tell you! It …