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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board / Re: N.

« Last post by sKePTiKal on April 17, 2026, 08:22:05 AM »

Depending what you're actually dealing with mentally/emotionally and how daunting it appears it helps me a lot to just "do" two or three things that are part of daily maintenance and then balance that with something I kinda WANT to do.

BEING is just as important, IMO as DOING. And I don't think there's any one static "right" balance ALL the time. Life is variable.

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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board / Re: Friendship Moments: good or bad

« Last post by sKePTiKal on April 17, 2026, 08:14:17 AM »

I think I'd double up on that weed fabric. It does biodegrade.

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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board / Re: Mindfulness and codependence thread

« Last post by lighter on April 16, 2026, 10:15:59 PM »

Update on my brother's shiny happy twinkling eyes, when he thinks about his new love.

New lady shares my brother's outgoing extroversion.....and she loves to dance!  I hope they take lessons together!  What fun!!!

She's lovely,cand is deeply attached to brother.....

It warms my heart, and I pray their happiness lasts.

Lighter

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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board / Re: N.

« Last post by Meh on April 16, 2026, 05:34:13 PM »

Thanks Lighter.

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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board / Re: Yard

« Last post by lighter on April 16, 2026, 01:57:02 PM »

Calamine lotion is a magical elixir! 

Don't wait for poison ivy scratching and weeping blisters.....coat yourself proactively, and rejoice!!!!

Lighter

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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board / Re: N.

« Last post by lighter on April 16, 2026, 01:38:20 PM »

Setting little goals sounds productive, and reasonable, M. Good plan, imo.

Worrying helps nothing, and robs one of life's logic/reason and creative problem solving abilities.....only ever counterproductive, IME.

I hope the Therapy offers something you value.  Will say this..... sometimes we get things, we don't consider valuable, but turns out to be.

Maybe this T will have something for you. Maybe a perceived negative, turns out to be a positive, or leads to something/a connection/new contact down the road.

Keep breathing, M.

You did good.

Lighter

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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board / Re: Friendship Moments: good or bad

« Last post by lighter on April 16, 2026, 01:27:42 PM »

Pardon the interjection, ladies.

Hey, guys.  I'm trying to cover a roughly 30' diameter red clay area,  with 2'h stone retaining wall(wedding arch area.)

Thinking geotech fabric, covered in #57 crusher run gravel......?

 I really wanted a labyrinth.....

Lighter

Decided to put in winding gravel path to arch, and plant micro clover on balance ...with creeping Jenny around stone wall top.  Will add white flowering plants too.

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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board / Re: N.

« Last post by Meh on April 16, 2026, 12:17:17 PM »

Well I think I might mainly be tired from period and having to take a bus etc.

I'm not sure I have anything to say. When I made the appointment I felt focused on something. During the appointment I feel like I just retreated into my headspace and anyhow it was only a first appointment. At least it was something.

Feels like I've been slightly incoherent all day. Friend is hospitalized for blood clots was texting them because they couldn't sleep was just trying to keep them some kind of company. Maybe just tired is part of the mental fog jumble. 

Reminding myself that I'm 1000% responsible for me and I'm 1000% responsible for my junk. Nothing magic is going to happen. You know there is a pathetic part of me that does just wish a therapist could fix my life, literally rewrite the past, the present the future and stick it in a snowglobe that flurries ranunculus petals.

I don't have to agree with the therapist about everything. I do find that economic reality is a pressure and it impacts everybody differently. The attachment stuff is a real issue for me yes & I mostly haven't had a chance to deal with it and I just avoid it. I have some other thought brb.

Blank. I'm too tired to write some judgemental thing on here. I'm actually too tired to spin my wheels in complaint.

Had wanted to write something just about how much financial stress impacts people it's a different issue and I don't want the therapy appointments to be about that because it's just a different type of personal problem. But even being able to do these appointments with the therapist it's actually only I have time because I'm in between jobs and my current insurance is paying for it.

My plan for the day is just to do an errand this morning - take a shower before or after - read a book for 20 minutes beforehand maybe - schlep my bag and barely working laptop to a cafe for afternoon got several things to actually work on. The less I do the more the stuff piles up needs to be done. I would feel better if I would get some stuff done. okay.

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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board / Re: N.

« Last post by Hopalong on April 16, 2026, 11:48:40 AM »

I can imagine how stimulating a first conversation with a T might be.
Hope your sleep regulates again and imagine it should.

Bravo to you, Meh.

hugs
Hops

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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board / Re: Friendship Moments: good or bad

« Last post by sKePTiKal on April 16, 2026, 09:03:18 AM »

Grass & weeds are lookin' a bit scraggly. I've still got to prune one of the rhododendrons out front - but it's an approach with caution and a full can of yellowjacket spray situation. Ground nest. Plants are still quite small. It will be at least 10 years before things mature and look decent. Every year, I need to bring in topsoil and/or compost to spread around what I already have established.

Dig?! Ha! Work smarter not harder. The bobcat I bought has a series of useful attachments that I ordered at the same time. One is an auger - there is only a sparse layer of topsoil over a LOT of shale and bigger limestone/granite rocks here. It's been commandeered by Hol - who loves running it and the backhoe. So once I decide WHERE the elders go (avoiding paths of gas lines, water lines, and power - and septic) I'll mark and she'll make holes that I'll fill with topsoil/compost and then I will have to haul water because it will be out of the range of the hose. It's looking like I need to water already this week. April showers disappeared.