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Pssst !! @Anna88 ......

If you see any more of them there snowflakes, blow some south for me, huh ? 😉

Hi

Don't know if this is the right place but i'm having trouble sleeping. I've got a big day ahead spending it with my mum and dad and it's stessing me out. woken up in a bit of a panic

Hi @Sonny1 ....good morning

I hope your feelings settled and you were able to go back to sleep for a while longer.

Do you want to talk more about the day out and what is concerning you about it ? Only if you want to.

I hear you @Sonny1 ..... I think it was a lot like that for my Mum and her mother. She didn’t talk about it much. I lost my Mum 16 years ago. Had she lived I would probably have asked her more about it because I can see in hindsight that she was carrying that as a silent burden.

I am glad you were able to journal and read yourself back to sleep.

All the best for today. I hope there are odd moments of joy amongst it all too, somewhere. One of my coping methods is to remain mindful of that as much as I can ..... small treasures amongst the chaos.

I think it helped to make her the highly empathetic person she was @Sonny1. She was a wonderful Mum to me and I miss her ..... and now I have a really sucky mi situation to deal with it helps me to draw strength from knowing that she had it tough too, it didn’t stop her from being a beautiful person,

Bloom where you’re planted as well as you can .....

🌷💕

Hi @Faith-and-Hope and @Sonny1

I can relate too. For people with happy childhoods, it sounds cold if you say that it's hard work and stressful being with your Mum. It doesn't mean in the slightest that you don't love them, but the relationship is very different, with a lot of caretaking and mood management in the mix. In some ways, I wonder if sticking around for a MI parent is a greater kind of love, or simply a different kind? There's much more give, and a lot less get than in a more normal mother/child relationship, and often that out of balance situation dates way back to the childhood years.

@Sonny1 hoping you can find a few people to recharge with here.

@Faith-and-Hope is it telling too much to give a rough idea of what part of Melbourne you're in? SE/NE/NW/SW/Inner/Outer? A few of the "locals" might be able to recommend some favourite relax spots or useful places. Despite being country folk at heart, we spent a few years living in various parts of Melbourne. So I might have some suggestions, as long as my knowledge isn't too out of date.

@Faith-and-Hope Just realised that discussion on the "Eating Disorder" thread has moved that way, so I've left a couple of suggestions there. x