Category " Dealing with stress"

After I had tided up on my birthday I drove to my friend Chris’s for meal. The constant stream of messages via Facebook, email and text continued to flood in making me feel hugged all around the world! I had taken up Chris’s kind invitation because he also knows how it feels to lose your soul mate […]

Clive was a big fan of using a dictionary. He relished words and had spoken about studying for a degree. Yet another thing he will no longer do. I have just looked up the word ‘Vulnerable’. Wikipedia says:- Vulnerability refers to the susceptibility of a person, group, society or system to physical or emotional injury or attack. The […]

This morning I began the day at my parents concerned about a friend. It was good to share some of my ‘survival’ techniques with someone else who is suffering – different problems but suffering nonetheless. It isn’t pleasant to hear pain in someone’s voice and you just wish you could click your fingers and take it […]

I know I have said this before but I am sorry. What for? For never understanding the real pain of bereavement until these last few months. If my ignorance has meant I have been inpatient or intolerant to others in the past then I ask their forgiveness. Clive would say that you should only feel […]

Blimey! What a misery I have been this week! I am delighted to report that I can tell I have re-emerged with a smile on the inside as well as out today! I checked my camera for the photo of me on Wednesday night at The Sidings. Still smiling! I am amazed at myself how […]