Far and Away

😔 💜💜💜🌷 @Former-Member , hearing you and understand. I have missed the tension points you are referring to, but have been a bit stepped back myself for family reasons, as you know.

Hugs Hon. I will keep an eye out for you for when you can come back.

Hi my sister

I have been thinking of too

Take it easy

With love

@BlueBay

Hi @Former-Member

Thinking of you my friend

Here for you anytime

Hi @Faith-and-Hope

Hope you're okay

I have been thinking of you

I had not long got home from my folks

I hope it was a lovely visit @oceangirl .

I have taken one of baby dragons to the airport. We are heading west indribs and drabs this time, as classes finish for the mid-semester break.

It was a good visit @Faith-and-Hope Milo and Kira were happy when I returned. Milo greeted down the side of the house because I came through the side gate.

Hope you have a good break from uni, and enjoy your trip back to Perth.

I'm heading overseas towards the end of next week- I am looking forward to the break.

I have seem to have picked up and I think it has helped seeing my psych more regular

That’s good to hear @oceangirl 🌷💕

Hi everyone, just wanted to jump in here before I head off for the weekend and just encourage everyone to practice good self care today, this weekend and always.

I was chatting with someone the other day and they said, a walk could be self-care, or it could be just a walk - depending on your mindset. Do your self-care activities (whatever it is) start by reflecting, recognising and engaging with emotions? What stressors and burdens are you carrying?

If tensions from the forums are somethin you are carrying, consider what self-care you can do to engage with those emotions and work through them (including emailing Community Managers if that works for you).

As always, we are working behind the scenes and you might not see everything we do but we do think it's important to minimise any continuation of conflict on the Forums. Can you instead approach the whole situation - including yourself, with empathy and compassion?

Is that all sounding a little too 'woo'? I hope you get what I mean. I know you all care about this place a lot and tension can really impact, hope you can see we're working though it and you'll join us by focusing on self-care?

@Faith-and-Hope It is official (well as far as it can be at this time of year) I will not be at the same school next year. There is just not a place available and whilst I expected that I was still holding out a little hope that something would come up - not to be.

I am understandably gutted that that is the case but I also did expect it. It will make the rest of the year difficult - especially until I have an idea of where I will be going. That process I will get underway soon with contacting HR but right now it is the last thing on my mind. Apparently the person whose class I have been on is officially back on class for the last week (apart from the Monday as that is her study day). It is still up in the air as to what I will be doing for the rest of that week - possibly off class helping out with the Acting Principal as both the Principal and assistant Principal are away for the next 2 weeks. I will try to get everything tied up next week with the class but it is one less week in my planning to cover everything - it sucks but it is what it is!

I am babysitting my sister's dog tonight and tomorrow. He is a good boy when he is here so it shouldn't be too much of a drama but it will stop me doing some things - especially as I need to do a lot of marking and organising for next week in order to tie things up in a shorter space of time. Been a shite day all around really with all that school news so feeling pretty deflated tonight. Been a long and difficult week - just seems to be continuing to come. Very much wanting to go to sleep and the world to be different but knowing that will not happen I will find a way through - just hard.