Tag: friendship

• 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, […]

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  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

• What could have been

  I’ve seen the same guy on the train for the last few days and he looks a lot like my friend Troy. He’s always on his phone and wears a brown jacket and dark grey jeans. I wonder where he goes? Maybe to work? He must be a creature of habit like me because we […]

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  August 25, 2022

  addiction, grief, hospital, identity, Illness, mental illness, Relationships

  addictedtosugarandsalt, backstory, conflict, dark thoughts, dating, decisions, destruction, foodaddictions, friendsarekindnotcruel, friendsarelife, friendship, friendshipistwoways, friendswillliftyouup, good memories, Health, hospital, Hospital visit, intruder, losing a friend, lostalovedone, mental illness, mental illness awareness, mentalhealth, narrative, notafriend

• For Shanti…a shining star in a dark storm

  As writers, we live lonely lives. We write and we try to share our hearts on paper (or in these times of modernity online) but there is always that fear – that worry – firstly of “Is anyone going to read this?”, then the anxious thoughts of of “Will they like it?” when really we […]

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  August 21, 2022

  Author life, books, family, Fears, food, Friends, grief, Grieving, happy memories, identity, Illness, kindness, Life, loss, love, Relationships, Work, worth

  bloggers, bloggingcommunity, Dad, family, friendship, grief, Life, supporteachother

• Hold on tight

  I’ve been ill so much these last 4 weeks that sadness and frustration are creeping in and my anxiety is doing it’s best to convince me I’ll never feel better again. So instead of worrying (so hard as it’s what I naturally do), I want to list the good things in my life. I have […]

  janetdthomas77

  July 4, 2022

  Friends, goals, happy memories, identity, Illness, Life, loss, money, Relationships, Work

  advice, Alun, alunandjanet, AppreciationPost, battles, blessed, blessings, decisions, divorce, doing Great, encouragement, finances, friendsarelife, friendship, friendswillliftyouup, gooddays, grateful, gratitude

• Friends make the world a much better place

  I’m off mood stablisers and this is my 3rd week of withdrawing from them. It has been HELL. I’m not even kidding. So now that no medication is ‘stabilising’ me, I’m crying at the drop of a hat. Everything makes me cry. Toast that dropped on the floor – butter side up – I stared […]

  janetdthomas77

  June 13, 2022

  addiction, anxiety, family, Friends, happy memories, Humour, identity, Life, love

  Friends, friendship, thankfulformymates, turningred

• Happy Memory #2

  Alun and I were moving house. I was SO EXCITED about it as the first home we moved into was something Alun chose while I was working long hours and when I saw it, my heart dropped. It was an old (VERY OLD) yellow cottage on a quiet street near a Primary school and really, […]

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  May 6, 2022

  anxiety, Burnt out, family, Fears, Friends, happy memories, Illness, kindness, Life, love, Relationships, Work

  blessed, family, friendsarelife, friendship, Life, mental illness, rainbowhouse, Relationships

• A happy memory

  When I told Jon I wanted a divorce, he left our house that night and moved back in with his family. Jon was surrounded by an entire, loving family while I paced up and down in the living room on my own for months afterwards. The first few days after Jon had left, the electricity […]

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  April 29, 2022

  anxiety, cheating, depression, divorce, family, Fears, Friends, Grieving, happy memories, Illness, kindness, Life, loss, love, rest

  anapwillfixalot, anxiety, depression, friendship, friendswillliftyouup, goodfriends, Life, mental illness, Relationships, sleepisnecessary, sleepisvital, thankfulforfriends

• Triggered

  “When bullies win, EVERYONE loses”

  janetdthomas77

  April 22, 2022

  anxiety, bullies, death, depression, dodging bullets, family, Fears, Friends, Grieving, identity, Illness, kindness, Life, loss, love, mental illness, Relationships, suicide, Work

  anxiety, beinghated, bullies, bulliesdontwin, depression, enemies, feelingalone, friendship, Life, mental illness, mentalhealth, Relationships, standUp

• Write about your happiest memory

  So rare…but a happy post from me. Haha. Who knew?

  janetdthomas77

  March 13, 2022

  dating, depression, family, Friends, goals, happiness, happy memories, Humour, Life, Relationships, Uncategorized

  bestdayever, Dad, friendship, gooddays, happy, happymemories, Life

• If I trust you

  I made a handful of friends in Hospital last December who have become so close to my heart. I care for each of them so deeply. You’ve already heard me go on and on about “Cam”, but there is also “Ron”, “Chris”, “Maggie”, “Betsie” and “EmilyUK” (all names changed to protect them) that I’m close […]

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  March 6, 2022

  dating, friendswithbenefits

  boys, flirtgame, friendship, guys, justfun, keepingtheflirtalive, notcreeping, Relationships, sexyguys