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Something that made me smile today or helped me to breathe a little easier for a bit.

Something that made me smile today or helped me to breathe a little easier for a bit.

Hi all,

I am finding the grid diary I’ve started helpful and I thought we could start a thread where we write, post image or song etc of something that helped even if for only thirty seconds on that day. It’s just a snapshot and not meant to be anything big. I think some days it will be a drop and run for me. I think for this to work best it would help not to have many responses to others posts or chat but really just snapshots that we can scroll through for inspiration or to remember. I do think it would be nice though if you found someone’s post inspirational and you tried it to let them know. The feeling that it helped someone is enough to put a smile on anyone’s face I think.

For me personally there were a few reasons for starting this. One was to have like a forum journal of positives where you can look back to find the things that have helped in the past. I also like the collective and shared part of it. I have found my experience doing something like this is helping to look for those little things more each day. Lastly I thought it might be used for coping box ideas a bit. Anything that you find self soothing is one of the things that you can post.

Looking forward to everyone’s posts.

💜🤗

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I smiled hearing about your smile from my comment about @Teej's comment in craft corner @Former-Member ☺😊 Yay for new books too!

A smile for me came in discovering my rhododendron has flowers poking through. It has lots of little buds that are turning purple and it's beautiful already. It's next to a pink azalea which is also flowering. Unless my memory is way off (which is definitely possible) both of these were flowering much later in the year last year, but I'm not complaining. Love how happy flowers are ❤

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Something that made me smile - reading this thread and craft corner.
Something that helped me breathe easier - just rang CATT team as I’m in a big dark hole and it’s been growing. The breathe easier part was I got someone that knows me and made me feel less scared about calling. They helped me make short term plans (the next few days) that were helpful. It’s helped just a bit.

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😊 'Support services including Lifeline and SANE Australia will also receive more funding to boost crisis hotlines and a suicide awareness campaign'

Re the budget from ABC news

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Hi @Former-Member, the flowers in your photo were beautiful. Thanks for sharing them as they made me smile 💐😊

Hi @Teej, that is wonderful news! Happy to hear it 👍

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It’s so hard sometimes to do this. The last few days have been hard for me to acknowledge anything positive let alone look for it. Today I’ve been back trying to find the small things to get a leg up again.
It came while standing in the chemist waiting for a script to be filled. I was at the perfume stand and sprayed some perfume which smelled nice and made me feel ok. I then went to the body lotion section and smelled lots of nice calming lotions. I couldn’t afford any but I did buy this for 99c as a way to remind me to be mindful in the shower again.

It’s taking me a very long time to get into my brain but I think when I’m not in total crisis mode I’m starting to get this self care stuff. Wanting to tag @Faith-and-Hope for constantly reminding us of self care things she does. For me this has been such a foreign concept. My breathe easy moment was being awakened by scent and then realising this was self soothing/care.

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something that made me smile today was actually seeing @Teej 's flowers she been sharing around the forums brightening the place up. they are really beautiful and i am sure they are giving more smiles than just to me.

(hope its ok ive meantioned you Teej, but you deserve the credit)

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Thanks @outlander it’s nice and thank you for noticing and commenting. I’m sure there are lots of people that are so grateful for your positive support @outlander. I’m watching you grow every day in lots of ways. Today there are lots of people hurting and in the time I had I wanted to give people a 5 second reprieve like you often do. That’s a smile from me today for you too and your kindness. 💜🤗

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aww smiles all round @Teej is it ok if i save the 2 that are my favourites?

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Yeah. They were from the net @outlander Always happy to share if it brings a smile. 😊

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thanks @Teej and yes please do keep sharing them

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