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Hot Chocolate Anyone ?

Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor

Hot Chocolate Anyone ?

Hi All

There is a thread operating on the Lived Experience Forum under Night Shift where members who are having trouble sleeping for any reason give a bit of a shout-out, to see if there is anyone else sleepless and looking for company. It's been such a great thing, I thought I would start one over here too.

I have had the odd few nights where I have woken up on and off, and my kids have been having a bit of trouble some nights too, depending on what has happened during the day.

Being a carer can be lonely too, so if you are making an after-midnight cup of something hot, and wonder who else might be doing that too, maybe have a look-in here and see if anyone else is about.

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AppleblossomSenior Contributor

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Hello @Take_me_as_i_am & @Anna88 Dont think we have chatted before, but welcome.

So much can go under the radar with individual cases of bullying. When we realise what is going it is important to call it for what it is, if and when possible.

Hello @Faith-and-Hope @Smc @Shaz51

I am back from a 4 night holiday, choir practise and zoo shifts back in my schedule.

Cheers to ALL those partial to hot chocs!

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Shaz51Senior Contributor

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heelllllllooo @Appleblossom

how is evryone @Take_me_as_i_am, @Smc, @Anna88, @Faith-and-Hope, @Former-Member today xxxx

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soulSenior Contributor

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Hope you are settling into your other home as well as you can be @Faith-and-Hope. Nice that you can maintain your coffee shop routine.

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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor

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Thanks @soul ......

Have part-unpacked today, but my heart is not in it ...... the coffee shop is my coping routine. Yes, pleased to have it ..... and there is lots of choice around here. I can go coffee-shop-hopping ......

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SmcSenior Contributor

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@Faith-and-Hope, I find it odd and hard being away from home and family, even for short stretches. I don't think I've got any idea what it's like for you right now, but thinking of you and praying. x

Did you track down the art supplies you were talking about earlier?

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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor

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I didn’t end up getting there today @soul (art supplies) so will bump that over to a to-do list for tomorrow.

Have come out walking for a while.

Thank you, I am feeling a bit lost in this moment ...... relating with o the signs of burnout list ..... I have lost my village in being here, but it is exactly so that our youngest two can build a village of their own under healthier circumstances ......

And hopefully there’s a diagnosis somewhere on our horizon for mr.f&h ......

I know I can’t just tread water until / if that moment arrives, so there’s nothing to be done but find things to get on with.

Today is Day 1.

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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor

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Sorry @Smc ..... clicked on the wrong name ..... (hi @soul 👋)

I was standing outside a bookshop when I replied to you @Smc ...... I went in and bought a journal and an ink pen. This is a commitment to finding things to be grateful for about being here, but I am going to disguise them in images, drawings, memes and poems ...... because I don’t want my kids to understand how much I am hurting in being here ...... gotta get my brave on somehow.

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Hello Hello hot chocolateers

As a follow up to Topic Tuesday ...

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Take_me_as_i_amContributor

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Thanks heaps for that @Former-Member thats brilliant!
Hi @Appleblossom @Shaz51 @Smc @Faith-and-Hope and @soul hope everyone is having a lovely evening.

Sorry to here @Faith-and-Hope how your feeling about your move, I know i struggled quite alot last year when I moved an hour away from my friends and family. I ended up going for a sleepover once a week to my parents house just so i could be in that familiar environment at first my mum sent me home and I cried the whole way home and called her crying she then realised how much I really needed to be there and from then on realised everytime I needed to come down for a sleepover not to turn me away. In time it did get better and now no longer go for sleepovers. But it was hard! I knew that area I knew my doctor I knew my local coffee shop I knew everywhere I needed to go and just little places like I knew my massage parlour. I think the thing that made it easier for me was getting a dog she has definitely been what got me through our big move.

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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor

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Thanks for sharing your moving story @Take_me_as_i_am ....... it has cheered me up a bit.
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