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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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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
It seems I need to walk very gently with him still.
I could hear him talk of his upset at my upsets.
Hopeful that things will turn around.
I felt proud of him in the counselling session.
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Zoe7Senior Contributor
History and culture does affect us @Appleblossom and often more than we realise. I was just saying to someone else that what has happened to us shapes who we are and it is hard to move forward when who we are has come aboput through trauma.
You have had to deal with a lot (and still do) so lean on us here at this time and we can help you get through this. You are such a valued member here on the forum and - as I have told you before - I love our interactions. Yes we all make mistakes sometimes and can be triggered by others on here but it is a wide community and there is a place for everyone - and you starting this thread is like a place you can call 'home' when YOU need support.
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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor
@Appleblossom ...... ❤️
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Shaz51Senior Contributor
hugs @Appleblossom 
sitting with you and thinking of you tomorrow xoxo
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WandererSenior Contributor
Here @Appleblossom
Glad you posted, hope it made you feel a little better, and the care from others.
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
Yes it did @Wanderer
Thanks and to @Zoe7
@nd for @Faith-and-Hope's polar cuddle ... need thick skins like them bears.
The canals in Amsterdam were frozen in March ... does not happen all the time.
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outlanderSenior Contributor
@Appleblossom
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OwlunarSenior Contributor
Hi @Appleblossom
I hear you about being fragile - me too - the Royal Commission is getting to a lot of people and I understand
Already I know you know that newbies are unaware of the nature of this forum and have yet to learn and some do - but being scolded by one of them isn't easy - we al;l know that and we all get stung now and again - but we are with you are care heaps
Thinking of you Apple - and all the usual things - take it easy - big day tomorrow - natural roll-evers and life goes on with patterns that natural mean we get stung at times - or just carry the load wherever we are in the whole thing
Sending hugs
Dec
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