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Just checking in.

Unknown userMember19 Nov 2016, 10:49 am AEDT

Just checking in.

I thought I'd start a discussion where we can check in with members and use this space to keep in contact. It's a space to be able to say how you really feel and it's a space for the good, the bad and the ugly moments in our lives.

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CheerBearSenior Contributor22 July 2018, 7:18 am AEST

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Morning @frog 😊 Great to see you too!

I'm going well thanks. I am just over two weeks out from my stay in a recovery centre and found it so helpful to be there. While I was there I dealt with a couple of things I was struggling big time with and managed to fill up the tank enough to give me what I need to keep going with the rest (at least for a while I think/hope 🤞). It was definitely the reset and recharge that I needed ☺

How are you going? I read your daily goals. I can find it really hard to put myself first sometimes and get to the end of the day feeling too tired and spent to do much of anything for me, as I read you experience too. I love what you have planned for today. I think many of us know that important 'putting on the oxygen mask on ourselves first' thing, but it's so hard to do sometimes especially with family to care for!

I really today is one for you that feels and is good for you!

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frogSenior Contributor22 July 2018, 9:04 am AEST

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Thanks @CheerBear Good to hear of your refresh/reset. It's vital. I took 2 days off work last week for a mini reset, though it's often hard to make the space I need.

Enjoy today.

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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor22 July 2018, 9:14 am AEST

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Morning @frog @CheerBear 👋💕

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CheerBearSenior Contributor22 July 2018, 9:40 am AEST

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Hey there @Faith-and-Hope 😊 Catching little bits every now and then of how you're going and what you're up to. You've been busy. I hope today is a good one for you too ❤

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CheerBearSenior Contributor27 July 2018, 7:50 am AEST

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Morning @Teej - I noticed you were around a moment ago and wanted to say hi. Often thinking of you and catching little bits of where you're at when I can. Hoping today is one of the better ones for you 💗

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TeejSenior Contributor27 July 2018, 8:08 am AEST

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Hiya @CheerBear,

im in this weird headspace of not knowing where to be on the forum again and what to say when I am. Thanks for the shout out. Sometimes it helps to get me out of my strange little headspace. It sounds like you have a busy day. I hope it goes well.

I have more of my assessment this morning. It’s been a really big head f thing for me but I think I need to do this. She is more direct than I’ve had before and I already know I’m going to hate her at times (not really but I think she’s going to take me places that cause lots of discomfort). I think if I’m to become unstuck I’ll need this but it’s frightening too. The hardest part is not knowing if I’ll be accepted to do the therapy with her. I won’t know until the end of the assessment.

Well that’s my rave. Hoping to hold it together today. Best wishes for today. 💜🤗

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CheerBearSenior Contributor27 July 2018, 8:32 am AEST

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Big hugs @Teej. Sensing you may have been in that headspace a little. I like the idea of this thread as a bit of a go to when other places maybe don't feel so go to-able for whatever reason. I feel it sometimes too.

Hearing how hard this assessment has been for you in a few ways. I think you're doing really well to keep at it and it sounds like somewhere inside you believe it will be for the best. I can totally get the fear of going through it only to not be accepted. Scary. How long do you have left?

I'm looking forward to a quietish (by my usual days at the moment) day. Orange is the New Black is out today. Super excited to get into that at some stage soon!

Hope it goes well today for you today and will be thinking of you. Not sure if you saw the highlight thread - if you get a chance there's a moment I had yesterday that maybe will give you a teeny little smile too ❤

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TeejSenior Contributor27 July 2018, 8:50 am AEST

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That’s great that you have an unwind day and something to look forward to @CheerBear.

i have another two to three sessions to get through. I’m hoping by the end of next week I’ll know.

thanks for sharing that, it really did bring a smile and a feel good.

Best if I get going and get myself ready to implode at this mornings session 😱😳. It will be ok I hope. It feels like it may be helpful or I wouldn’t put myself through this.

will try to put my big girls pants on and respond on the challenge thread after. Thanks again for a quiet corner to help me get back some confidence. I really appreciate you being around.💜🤗

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TeejSenior Contributor29 July 2018, 5:20 pm AEST

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My turn @CheerBear. You ok? Here listening if you need to get something off your chest (just realised that’s another crazy saying). It’s ok not to as well. Hoping the LF are not causing too much grief on this cold Sunday. 💜🤗

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CheerBearSenior Contributor29 July 2018, 8:23 pm AEST

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Hey @Teej - I've missed both of your tags as emails today. I think it is something that happens if an image is attached to the post maybe, I don't know.

I really enjoyed reading your post from earlier today. Maybe enjoyed is the wrong word, but I felt lots of feels with it. You wrote what you did about things hanging over us that threaten to break us. That's it in a nutshell for me too. I feel like there are a few things hanging about for me, any one which I worry could shake things up lots. I've really enjoyed trying to live in a happy lala land of pretending they're not there for the last couple of weeks (being a bit/a lot hard on myself there), but I have to face things I don't want to again now, and I feel like those wheels are coming off just at the thought of it. That fall does hurt lots and I'm not feeling quite as brave as I like to try to be 🙁

Usually this is where I might add something about how sleep might help, or how I can see this sad and worried response is probably pretty reasonable, or that maybe the wheels are wobbly but not entirely off, or about how the little crew and I had a nice day which I can hold on to tonight (which I really do believe and which we really did have). But I don't want to do that right now because I'm not feeling so OK tonight and maybe it's OK for me to sit with that for a bit rather than run away from it in some way.

I really appreciate the space for a bit of a vent, thank you heaps Teej. Totally appreciate that you get it and nutshelled what I was struggling to say, too. It's helped to have heard it in your words and to have unbottled a bit of it with mine here tonight.

(Yay for lilacs and cats 💜)

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