Living in dignity and love beyond complex trauma (formerly IntoThisBreakingLight)
Tag: thank you
Ouch. The pain is really bad this morning and I’m exhausted, anxious and don’t know if I’ll get through the day at work.
Today I am deciding to find as much good as I can. Today I commit to notice and be thankful for 5 good things around me. Today I commit to hold onto hope. Today I commit to find every small way I can to go that little bit further and bring help and happiness to others.
I’ll post the 5 thankful things later today.
Wishing you good today.
Xxx
Happy St Valentine’s Day. Wishing you good things today. I do not mark it in any way (largely due to being single! ) and I know it may raise lots of mixed opinions and feelings.
Today I’d like to say a very sincere thank you to you for visiting this page, reading, thinking, commenting, praying, hoping and all your care and compassion. You hold me when I cannot hold on myself. You give true friendship in this community which I have never known elsewhere.
This quotation of Mother Teresa is very dear to me:
“We cannot do great things, but we can do small things with great love. “
The great love you show in your time and support here really helps me. Thank you so so much. My circumstances are forcing me to learn quickly that I cannot do great things. I believe it is in love alone that we are judged in the end by our Merciful God and that in love we can learn to make the smallest little task beautiful. When we can only just stand up, speak, go through the motions of the day, the love this costs us to do makes this little way beautiful.
I’m struggling to trust that in myself but I’m trying.
Ginny xxx
I’m thankful for the visit of a special friend tonight. She came for tea and a catch up and we exchanged much belated little Christmas gifts. We’re going to meet again in a couple of weeks.
It always amazes me that she wants to be my friend. It amazes me she wants to meet up again soon. I’m not good enough to have friends – I’m not any good to be around – that’s what’s in my head.
I’m very thankful that she has kept in touch and continues to want to meet up, when I’m well and when I’m struggling and when I’m very sick. Very few people stay around in all those times.
Ginny xxx
Wow. Thank you so much to all of you who have liked / followed / commented on here.
This is my first time blogging and sharing more freely my experiences of mental health is also a relatively new thing for me. When I began this blog, I really hoped that I would be able to post things which are of interest, which readers can relate to and so in some way help. I know how much that has helped me. But I didn’t know where to start.
So, it means a lot that you have taken the time to stop by here and to leave comments and feedback. I know from personal experience when I’m struggling that it is often not easy to share or even to read something so I particularly appreciate what you do. I’m encouraged that this is a place to find solidarity and share experiences along our paths. Thank you very very much. It has not been a great couple of weeks for me and so it means all the more to me right now to find this encouragement here.
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On a related note, I’d love to know what you wonderful visitors to this site would like to discuss / me to post about – what topics are particularly interesting or meaningful to you. It’s often comments that friends, some of whom I meet in support and therapy groups, that spark off a new train of thought, a different way of looking at something, a discovery of an unexpected experience in common or a connection I had not made before, and I certainly find this interesting myself when I write and reflect on it.
I’d love to hear from you with any thoughts you’d like to share, questions or suggestions.
Again thank you so very much
Ginny xx
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