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Wow @avant-garde I am at a loss for words. Which as you know is rare!

But I'll try to find some anyway 😋

I am getting such a sense of empowerment from you, from this process you're engaging in, it's truly palpable. Reclamation is such an underexplored concept in a lot of mental health spaces, but I think it's an important one. This has been very moving to read 💜

@Jynx

I'm starting to see what happened to me as what it was... theft... theft of innocence, theft of childhood, theft of sexuality, theft of everything that would've made my life... well... good.

And to reclaim it... it's giving me goosebumps and apparently I'm glowing...

Going to peer support yesterday having started this... they noticed it

Amazing @avant-garde - if I had just one word for you, it would be 'transcendence' 😊

Extra special when it's noticed too, hey! Sounds like the peer support group is going well too 💜

@Jynx

It is going well

Even the new PSW has started bugging me to do the course but I won't. They need someone like me in the group to encourage others to feel open and safe and vulnerable

I love that @avant-garde I think you're so right - leading by example, and showing that it's not just okay to be vulnerable, but something to be celebrated. Would you ever want to do the course like, maybe down the track?

@Jynx

Only if more opportunities to work with kids came up.

But with more autistic schools popping up I'd be great to work in their library being completely qualified for that.

Special Needs teachers assistant

Librarian degree

Oooh yes I love that option for you @avant-garde - I think you would potentially be really good at 'tuning in' to their needs, whether verbally expressed or not! And being able to meet them at that more playful level, where the inner child likes to dwell 💜

@Jynx

At least people at church had a heart today

Sounds like a win @avant-garde? Or a positive, if you don't want to call it a win 😅

@rav3n? did... did my email come through?