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~ Toolshed 2: Power Tools for Recovery ~

JynxModerator14 Nov 2025, 4:58 pm AEDT

~ Toolshed 2: Power Tools for Recovery ~

Hey hi hello! Welcome to the second iteration of...

~ The Toolshed ~

I decided to make a new thread, as the first one had errors and phantom pages, and was getting quite long! You can still find all the amazing pics, inspiring quotes, and uplifting messages of the first Toolshed here.

What is the Toolshed? Ain't a place to hang your hammer! Hehe this is a space where we can share the things that have helped us in our recovery. Tools, coping skills, inspiring ideas, and messages of hope and growth, is what this space is all about!!

You can stay connected and up to date on this space by favouriting, or by subscribing to the thread - head to the top of the page, and find the three dots to the right of the thread title (next to the star), click, and from the drop down menu you can 'favourite' or 'subscribe' - and clicking the star itself will also favourite the thread for you.

Favourite threads are then always available in your favourites list which should appear on the right hand side of most forums pages - or you can go to your profile and scroll down to the 'Favourites' section under your recent posts.

If you subscribe, it means that you will get a notification every time someone posts something new in the thread. So up to you if you simply want it to be always accessible, or if you want all the updates, or both!

I invite anyone who wishes to contribute to do so! It doesn't have to be pictures, it can be discussion, questions, videos, whatever you like! So without further ado, here's my latest batch!

Tagsalad (alphabetical order stolen from @Former-Member hehe):

@AlwaysMyself @Appleblossom @AuntGlow @avant-garde @Blackcloud @Bow @Captain24 @Chasingsunsets @creative_writer @Cuddlebear @Dimity @DownMoreThanUp @MissGremlin @ENKELI @GezzaP @Glisten @heartathome @Jacques @Judi9877 @Kashmina @lonemushroom @Meowmy @MJG017 @Mustang67 @NightFury @Oaktree @PeppiPatty @puppydoglover @rav3n @RebelliousAngel @REDLINEZ750 @RiverSeal @Ru-bee @Shaz51 @SleeplessRaven @The-red-centaur @Till23 @tyme @0ddsidian

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PeppyPattiSenior Contributor14 Feb 2026, 8:53 pm AEDT

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Dear @Rosepetal96

my friend of someone who has what we all have here.
vulnerability.

recovery isn’t linear.
then

people enjoy making sure that they win what we are trying to say.
we who need support. As many as King Charles security.

I hope you know that we love you here

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Mustang67Senior Contributor14 Feb 2026, 8:57 pm AEDT

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@Appleblossom thanks for thinking of me. Lol

I do have one of those coins, which should be arriving sometime this week coming. I must say when I saw the coin, I didn't find it very flattering. Not that I really know what she looked like near the end.

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PeppyPattiSenior Contributor14 Feb 2026, 9:11 pm AEDT

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Like button doesn’t work

nighty night

@Bunniekins @Jynx @Mustang67 @StuF @tyme @Ru-bee

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TABSenior Contributor14 Feb 2026, 9:12 pm AEDT

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✔️ like @Mustang67

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ENKELISenior Contributor14 Feb 2026, 10:19 pm AEDT

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@Mustang67 hope you're feeling better this evening xo

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Mustang67Senior Contributor14 Feb 2026, 11:23 pm AEDT

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Hi @ENKELI unfortunately my back is really bad. I just struggled going to the toilet and the fridge without be in agony. And considering I am only in the caravan, that's not far to go.

And I know to get my back better, I need to do a lot of work to strengthen it. My concern is that I am no longer good at completing anything, especially if it is for myself. I no longer believe that I can do this. But if I don't I will end up spending my life in bed.

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ENKELISenior Contributor14 Feb 2026, 11:56 pm AEDT

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@Mustang67 oh that is not at all good. I'll keep you in my prayers and hope that your back improves.
Living with a back injury I understand that sometimes just moving in the wrong direction can bring tears to your eyes.
I know it's easy for me to say just start small and go from there because I have the same trouble with doing exercises for my back. I have injured my arm and I still haven't gone and had an ultra sound and Xray like my GP told me to do.

I hope that it does feel better in the morning though xo

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Rosepetal96Senior Contributor15 Feb 2026, 12:52 am AEDT

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Thank you @PeppyPatti 🤗

I am very late to the forums tonight!

Busy eating turkish desserts

@Chasingsunsets , I have a picture of a turkish çay (tea) and a selection of desserts such as baklava, orange flour cake, sütlaç (rice pudding) and soğuk (cold) baklava, which is sort of made with a milky syrup instead of the traditional sugar syrup .

I ended up drinking about 6 cups 🤣 The shop also has about 18 different flavours of dondurma (ice cream) including traditional flavours like mastic gum and goats milk to more modern flavours like matcha and raspberry. My favourite was the melon flavour