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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
For a while I have tried to find a thread I had started when I joined the forum that could be a "home" thread for me.
Being busy about the forum has been a coping style, where I can acknowledge all my different life experiences that had been silenced. Possibly do some good and prevent things from getting worse. Like the little boy with the finger in the dyke.
Feeling fragile
Needing Nurture
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ethSenior Contributor
Good morning @Appleblossom hope yesterday was a good one for you. Nice to hear there are highlights in your day at your work.
Hi to others here too.
Take care all xx
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
Thanks all
I was worried the giphy link would not work.
and of course I missed a lot of people, so sorry. Sometimes I cant get the avatar to come up or some other reason. Please dont read anything into it. I just have a brain like a sieve, not really techno and also it is not always clear from posting or avatar.
Happy IWD @Former-Member @Bimby2 @Owlunar @Lotusgirl and any who readthis and identify as a woman.
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Thank you @Appleblossom . Happy IWD to you and other women too.
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outlanderSenior Contributor
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
I am alright. @outlander Had 2 medical appointments. psychologist & physio. Went to chemist and then 2 supermarkets looking for the .... you know what?
DId exercises and online sorting a few things and garden and cat.
How are you?
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outlanderSenior Contributor
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
Fingers Crossed. @outlander Headaches are complex, but working the cranial sacral area in the right way can make a lot of difference. Good Luck with it.
Learning to keep a comfortable level of busy is hard for me, as I expect a lot from myself, but dont even realise it. Well in some ways I realise it but not quite sure which bits to go hard on and which bits to ease up.
My cleaner said she was surprised by the panic and did not think Australians were like that. My response has been "not in my lifetime". I believe during and after the wars there were shortages.
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
Back and neck bad today. Consoling myself with garden and watching movies on sbs.
Fringe Dwellers 1986.
Read the book at school, and would have loved to go to the movie in 1986, but it was my horror year, the only movie we went to was exhubs choice "Back to the Future". NOt that I knew it Fringe Dwellers had been made, far too busy to keep my eye on cinema.
Had a message on my phone StPats day, thanking me for all I had done for my ex step daughter (from her biol mum).
Also enjoyed Icelandic green activist movie Woman at War. Saw there is interesting doco about Lakota women so will look for that too.
Def Fragile today.
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MaggieSenior Contributor
@Appleblossom
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
Thank you @Former-Member for support
and @Maggie as I was reading your lovely message, I realised to calm down and breathe in every word.
Slow calming back to you.
with Tina Turner and music:
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