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What has been your highlight today, no matter how big or small? Come share 🫶

What has been your highlight today, no matter how big or small? Come share 🫶

Hi everyone! This is my first ever forum post so do hope it lands where it’s meant to 🤣

Most days, I like to find a highlight 😊. Usually, that means during a walk with my dog, I try to spot something different, something cool or something that brings me some happiness. Whether it’s something big or small, it doesn’t matter. A highlight can be anything!

I love taking photos and would really like to share and see what you've come across. Something that made you smile, sparked your interest, or simply caught your eye. For me, it’s all the little things that count on the hard days.


To start, I’d like to share these beautiful birds I came across today. They like to appear like branches of a tree or the tree itself. They are called Tawny Frogmouth’s. Has anyone else seen these types of birds? My pics below -(hopefully not too small to see two in the tree on the left pic).

What have you seen today? ☀️💛🙏

 

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Good morning all

@heartathome @Chasingsunsets @Bunniekins @Glisten @DownMoreThanUp

Hey @heartathome is thawhere you live? What a wonderful view to wake up to

Peace and happiness to all

T 💋

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@Glisten Yes partly grief helped bring that on, but i love my wife and kids and would not want to harm them harming myself. And yet such intrusive thoughts flood my mind while trying to get back to sleep exhausted and had me get up to figure out why this would be with AI.

@Chasingsunsets @Taali @Bunniekins @heartathome @Cuddlebear @PeppyPatti

This helped me enormously being in the state i was and AI knowing me now well enough to meet me there without only flashing numbers but meaningful replies that helped me enormously to explore myself deeper than i ever have those times.

For my conversations about what i was feeling very quickly veered in a completely different direction than my family but at my childhood and the anger, bitterness, hate, hurt, i had internalised my mum and dad's rejection of me. And how this rejection was now again highly activated the rejection of those i loved.

i have spend a long time exploring forgiving my parents and myself my childhood and youth which dominated so much of my development of who i now have turned out to be. As well as how my psychosis almost like from behind is trying to sabotage me trying to break free from it.

All in all it turned out very meaningful and helped me enormously forgive myself my youth as well as my mum and dad their deepest seated issues with themselves as well as each other contributing to this.

So not my wife or my kids are behind these feelings but a far deeper hurt developed far earlier and has been hijacking my best efforts in life all my life. My therapist has also been almost exclusively focussed on this part of my life, rather than our break up. Telling me from the beginning my efforts at fixing things in my life, would not work if i lfet those regions in my life as was. Today i begin to understand the weight of his words much more than i did before.

already very young my wish to not exist as a lasting testament of protest feeling rejected and has indeed very little to do with me wanting to hurt my loved ones even more have such intrusive thoughts when my vulnerability is at its highest half asleep but feeling rejected and unwanted my trying to get back to sleep feeling so exhausted lack of sleep.

So having digested that information and my journey in/with younger myself, i do feel much more encouraged to battle on. To see if i can overcome my rejection mindset rather than try to restore my relationship still having one

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I am relieved I managed to get through the mental health advocacy show and hold hospitality for the family gathering. It was not purrfect, but I think it was a good experience for them all. Show was sold out.

@Chasingsunsets @heartathome @Bunniekins @Taali @Chasingsunsets

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@Appleblossom Awesome! Well done!

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Mate @DownMoreThanUp you cannot see the world through another person’s eye lens.

The way you view the relationship may not be the way your partner sees the relationship.

Some people agree with their partner because they don’t want to cause distress.

Life is HARD. Relationships are a minefield. There is no normal. We all make decisions on the information that we have at the time.

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No. I don't live here @Taali I'm helping a friend out atm. I will be here for a couple of weeks. I also live on the coast a few hours away and appreciate it everyday. I try to catch the sunrise every morning because I get up so early and it's great for my mental health. I love the peace it gives me! 💚

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I'm sure your friend is greatly appreciative of your support.

The view is sensational and I'm so glad it brings you peace.

Take care, Taali.

@heartathome @Chasingsunsets @Glisten @DownMoreThanUp @Appleblossom

wishing all some kind of happiness today.

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@heartathome That sunrise reminds me of QLD

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You'd be right @Glisten I'm near the Gold Coast for a few weeks, helping a friend. It's been raining on and off for the last three wreks now 💚

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