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10 Nov 2017 05:42 AM
10 Nov 2017 05:42 AM
Good morning @Phoenix_Rising
So last night was HARD. So hard. I am writing this morning to say that all the pocket crew snuggled in my pocket. They were there even before you asked as I had a gut feeling pocket crew being together would be a good idea. Unlike the 'almost-creepy moment' I had recently, I am not wondering why I felt that gut feeling last night 😉 Dr Havetodo is a great debriefer. I spent time debriefing with her too. Awesome listening ears.
How did we do? I still have a 100% survival score too as I have a feeling you do as well, even if that was looking big time shaky last night and throughout the night. I think we did awesomely at practicing what we preach. I held on to a whole bunch of assumptions I truly believe and you practiced a bucketload of skills and tools. And today has dawned again and it's now tomorrow here as I believe it is in Sydney also. Tomorrow/today brings with it the chance to try again. So glad our tomorrows are Earth ones.
You said that we are anonymous strangers and you don't know our names, and I totally get how that can feel like that. My name is CheerBear. I am as much CheerBear as I am my not forum name. You know me as well as not-forum people, and you know me better than many not-forum people as I have shared parts of me that no not-forum people see. We know each other well enough to find each other in the dark and pick up on when things might be amiss. People miss that in not-forum land life all the time, yet somehow we have found a way to do that here. I don't think we are strangers. I think we are not-friends who have a connection that has somehow broken through the fact that we wouldn't know each other if we passed each other on the street (aside from the fact that you're a turtle who carries a turtle and I am a rainbow unicorn dressed in black).
I am planning on spending my day in the garden and hope however you're planning on spending yours (volunteering gig and violining maybe?) it is ok enough for you.
We've got this 🙂
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I wasn't sure if you would get to your volunteering gig either @Phoenix_Rising 😞 I am glad you have a pocket and I believe that pocket won't change. I am super glad that pocket is with me because you being in my pocket helps me feel safe all the time.
I so get how much harm comes about through things like what happened, happening. I really truly do and I get how confusing it is.
Random but yesterday on my book shopping for LF adventure (that was totally horrendous), I picked up a couple of books and one I got for puffer fish has the line "I think you might be in a muddle". I didn't realise until I got home and read it properly. You can probably imagine my excitement at that when I saw it. Another one I got is about feelings and how they can be big or little, what they feel like and how they change etc. They're really cool.
I am going to race big to the shower now. I hope that falling back to sleep feels good. I will be here as always, even when I am not (but I will probably be here here today).
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