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I'm thankful that the forecast for rain today is running behind schedule long enough for my dog and I to take a Sunday walk.

I'm upbeat and hopeful for accomplishing things. A nice change.

Besides the yoga-dogwalk-shower-schoolwork needs, my goal is to pull out some crayons and work on a design I sketched out last night.

I had a few creative sparks today and wrote down my ideas to work on them in more detail later. I've made healthy meals for myself three nights consecutively, did some grading, and some yoga. One or two bouts with anxiety-depression creeped in, but I managed to busy myself through to a happier...

Try spending time outdoors beyond the standard dog walk.

First, Ms Spock, your update today makes me happy since I know from your other thread how hard you're working to go it alone without the meds. Second, My boyfriend reminded me how far I've come; he had just watched a series on BBC that has a storyline dealing with many women characters who at...

I did yoga, walked my dog, and prepared a healthy dinner. Hope to get a shower in, too.

Ms Spock, I have So much hope for you in this shaky time and so much admiration for your courage. I thank you for posting and for the others who have responded to your posts. I've been toying with the idea myself. It's spring season where I am, and I find lavender and geranium help me. I...

Being alert and aware of my surroundings (spring in bloom) and breathing calmly while walking my dog: deep purple tulips, red bud trees, magnolias, and dogwoods -- lovely, sneezes and dog poop aside.:rolleyes:

I'm grateful to have found a proactive psych recently. Though she tried a different med for me -- Remeron -- which basically made me gain 17lbs in 3 months! -- ugh --, she was just as adamant as I was that that particular med had to go. We're trying something different. In the meantime, I'm...

So true. Just becoming self-aware is a triumph that even folks without PTSD sometimes don't manage.

Prepare something healthy and inviting to eat for dinner. (I've been in a dietary slump lately.)

Hi holycross1, Our experiences are very different but I hope you find help and some warmth here (as I have). Welcome and thanks for sharing.

I've always isolated myself, as a little tike and now as a middle-aged person. I don't have children, and I'm not close to my immediate family, emotionally or geographically. I don't subscribe to any dogmatic religion, so that hampers some possibilities. I do have a lot of hobbies, but, I'm...

I love that phrase, "radical acceptance." An acceptance that has agency/self-awareness. I think that's going into my meditative mantra.

Two houses down from me is a family, a healthy looking family. What I mean by that is there are three boys, two of them are mid-to-late teens and a third younger boy of about 10 years. I often see the three boys walking their dog together, or the two older boys watching the younger one while...

Wow, Hashi, can I so relate. A friend is retiring this year, my boyfriend is retired, and I'm still limping from having to file bankrupsy after a divorce, my credit rating is null and void. I accept responsibility for some, most of my poor management skills in finances and health, but some...

We've been so lucky these past two weeks of lovely spring, cool but not cold, breezy and sunny. Only a few bouts of rain. (Sending sun to all)

I fail miserably when dress codes are in order, and always have. One reason I saw being a university professor in Humanities so appealing (among other reasons) was because I knew I could get away with a clean pair of jeans and a shirt that was "presentable-enough" for reasonably appropriate...

I'm grateful that my dog seems to love me today, regardless the current state I'm in.

I miss the hopeful one I thought I was. I keep trying to get back to her -- come out, come out wherever you are...

I feel for you Spiderallis -- those multiple voices of others who have hurt us that disguise themselves in our own inner monologue are so overwhelming. Hope you are able to quiet them down. Sometimes I try to refute them outright. I'm feeling off-kilter but I'm managing. (((hugs, sun and...

(((lots of hugs for all who need them))) Of the last 14 days we've had 1.5 days of sun. Finally, we have a full sunny day, so I'm feeling sunny.

Well, I did something for me but not for my waistline: I bought two slices of cake to bring home from the bakery so that my boyfriend and I can enjoy them when he comes over to visit. Sweet self-sabatage in terms of watching my weight but what the hell.:smug:

I'm glad your daughter has an attorney now and I'm sending out positive waves in hopes that she gets the job. Hugs to you and your daughter.