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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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DimitySenior Contributor
@Appleblossom you might like this
https://fb.watch/mI8dH9va-a/?mibextid=9R9pXO
A shamanic singer from Siberia
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
Snow Raven Wow she is amazing @Dimity Thanks for sharing. Had a look around at her ...
Hanging in there. My mood goes up and down. Really dont know how to do this social stuff, stresses me like mad, make all sorts of booboos. Crack the wrong jokes in the wrong places. At least I am finding a more playful me, and not in a state of quasi catatonia or fear/frozen/paralysis, bearly able to utter a word that makes sense. I am past the age of raising kids and earning money, so figure everyone else has been able to make booboos, and its my turn, so try and forgive my own.
@tyme @Shaz51 @EternalFlower @Former-Member @StanD @Oaktree @outlander @Decadian @Faith-and-Hope @Zoe7 @Snowie @Eve7 @NatureLover @Bunniekins
Hope you are all doing reasonably alright. You know ... considering ... all the stuff life throws at us.
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outlanderSenior Contributor
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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor
❤️ @Appleblossom
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
@Faith-and-Hope @outlander U2 have helped me more than you know.
Muchos Gracias.
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outlanderSenior Contributor
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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor
And me @Appleblossom ….. 🌸💕
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DimitySenior Contributor
From catatonia to courage @Appleblossom that's pretty amazing... dunno how you do it, wish I knew
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
Thanks @Faith-and-Hope @outlander I did not have others in my life when I met you both, but now have somewhat of a life, with maybe 3 female friends irl. Having forum connections helped me unload, get ideas and be inspired, and stopped me from goin completely stir crazy...and somehow I am still here. We are still here. I think that is Sacred ..... and @Zoe7 @Shaz51 and others
@Dimity
I have not written much about my really bad times. But I thought I was borderline catatonic on and off for a few years in ear,y 1990s. It was often all I could do was get basics done with kids, dinner on table, and I would just stare at my food in exhaustion, my face almost falling into my plate,but it was much more than physical or emotional exhuastion. There was a lot of manipulation and deaths and grief, and getting up and doing WORK. All sorts of work. It was pretty bad. Not easy for my kids to witness either. I can joke or minimise it, but the situation with my son would not have evolved as it has, if it had not been severe. I always tried to get 'professional' "help" all throughout those periods. It is what it is. My best shot. Yeah, it feels like courage, and fear and trembling ... Coming to terms with what it is to be alive and female. Thanks friends.
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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor
Hearing you @Appleblossom …… ❤️
Completely wiped out tonight. Have had a bad cold, and D2 too, and have energy-crashed. Don’t know what to do for dinner cos I can’t get off the couch. D2 can’t cook or answer the door for deliveries. There will be a packet of crackers or something in the cupboard, and D2 makes a mean cup of tea ….. one of those nights.
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