Category: communication

• The heart of my Memoir

  I signed onto a free online class about Memoir writing today. It was difficult to concentrate solely on the class and not look around the room or let my mind drift off to other things. Something I picked up on was finding the heart of my Memoir. The Lecturer said her Memoir started out as […]

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  October 29, 2022

  addiction, anxiety, Author life, books, Christian life, communication, dating, family, Family Obligations, Favouritism, Fears, Friends, goals, happy memories, hospital, Humour, identity, Illness, Jealousy, Life, loss, love, marriage, memoir, mental illness, obsessed, Relationships, sexlife, siblings, suicide, worth, Writer, writing

  2ndmarriage, abuse, acceptance, addiction, advice, anxiety, authenticity, author, Author struggles, authorlife, authors, authorsLife, backstories, backstory, battles, blessings, bloggers, book production, bookgoals, bookreview, books, boys, breakups, buddingauthor, buddingwriter, canweevergoback, changedforever, chapterhook, redraft, rewrite

• Small Talk

  It was Alun’s birthday the next day but I’d been too preoccupied with work to have gotten him a gift and card any earlier. I’d decided after work to go by JB HiFi and get Alun a camera-doorbell thingy that you attach to the top of the front door so that whenever someone rings the […]

  janetdthomas77

  October 24, 2022

  communication, happy memories, Life, Relationships

  connections, Life, Relationships, smalltalk

• Writer’s homework

  My book Coach Annie sent me ‘homework’ to do regarding my Memoir and I wanted to share my answers with you…because…why not? (just quietly, I am an attention whore and love it). Here you go: Writing exercises: What is your memoir’s working title? Why did you choose it? What other titles have you considered? Why […]

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  October 17, 2022

  abuse, addiction, anxiety, Author life, books, communication, family, Favouritism, Fears, Friends, goals, identity, Illness, Life, loss, love, memoir, mental illness, Relationships, Writer, writing

  author, authorlife, memoir, memoirwriting, thestruggleisreal, Writer, writing

• My Authentic Self

  Today in “groups” we talked about “ACT” Acceptance, Commitment Therapy. I missed the first group because I was on the phone having a psychology appointment (Finally!!! YASS!!!) but I came into the second class and we talked about making meaningful lives for ourselves and what was important to us – what made life worth living, […]

  janetdthomas77

  October 14, 2022

  anxiety, communication, Fears, Friends, goals, happiness, happy memories, identity, Jealousy, Life, love, Mindfulness, Relationships, self love

  acceptance, authenticity, empowerment, friendship, genuinecompliment, genuineself, girlpower, girlssupportgirls, Life, Relationships

• Plan B

  Today I’m fortifying my castle walls and to protect myself as I rebuild, I’m not going to interact with anyone if I can help it. I’m going to stay in my room all day so that no one can talk to me. Yesterday really traumatised me and I’m not sure how to recover from it […]

  janetdthomas77

  October 9, 2022

  anxiety, Burnt out, communication, depression, Fears, fed up, Grieving, Protecting myself

  anxiety, depression, mental illness, protectmyheart, psychward, stayalone, staysafe

• Worth diamonds

  Justin and I have been friends since we were 17, I think. We met on Easter Camp and he was the 1st ever boy to ask for my number. Before the internet and mobile phones, we all had landlines and omg the excitement of a boy calling for me was next level. Justin rang almost […]

  janetdthomas77

  September 23, 2022

  Christian life, communication, dating, Friends, happiness, happy memories, shareyourworld, worth

  boys, dating, Friends, Relationships

• A calculated risk

  The phone rang and lit up an orange box at the top of my screen, indicating that a new call was coming in. This was to be my 1st call of the day for work and 200-300 more were to come. That’s my usual work day and I’m slowly starting to get used to it. […]

  janetdthomas77

  September 10, 2022

  communication, grief, hospital, Life, loss, Relationships, Work

  breaking rules, calls, risks, taking risks, Work

• Sharing my world

  #shareyourworld #writingprompts #July2022 Here are my answers to Melanie’s questions: What’s your favorite way to spend a day off? Easy – sleeping! Hahahahaha! I love to be able to rest, it’s life. Seriously. If you’re retired, what’s something you now include in your schedule that you dreamed about while employed? Ahahahhaha it’ll be a LONNGGGGG […]

  janetdthomas77

  June 29, 2022

  alcohol, anxiety, Author life, communication, family, Humour, identity, Life, mental illness, shareyourworld, Work

  gratitude, Life, mental illness, questions, Relationships, shareyourworld

• You’re welcome 😊

  I’ve started a new job as a “Telecommunications operator” for all the Hospitals North of the city. This job is HECTIC and there’s a lot to learn. Mostly rules that start with “Do not”. Argh. Anyway. Yesterday I took a call and the woman on the other end of the line was clearly very distressed. […]

  janetdthomas77

  May 11, 2022

  communication, family, happy memories, hospital, Illness, Life, loss, Mindfulness, Work

  choosewordswisely, connections, justbreathe, switchboardoperator, takeabreath, telephone

• Facts are facts

  The worst thing about suffering with mental illness is that you can’t trust yourself. You live in a constant state of gaslighting yourself “did that really happen or did I imagine it?”. It is the worst thing to suffer from – not being able to trust your own thoughts. When I’m in the depths of […]

  janetdthomas77

  April 29, 2022

  anxiety, bullies, communication, depression, divorce, Facts are facts, Fears, Friends, grief, identity, Illness, Life, mental illness, Police

  anxiety, depression, factsarefacts, Fears, Life, mental illness, mentalhealth, Relationships