❣ Eating Disorders Support 🍂 Check-In 🍂 5th Sep to 11 Sep 2022 ❣
Hello Community, I will be starting to do weekly check-ins for our community 🌻
Focus on good things🌱🍃🍂
Image of field, hand holding 3 daisies. Writing at top saying focus on good things
Here are a few questions, feel free to answer as many or as few questions as you like or even just come and say hello! <3 Feel free to also share anything on your mind. Looking forward to everyone's replies! 💚
- How have you been feeling this week with 3 emojis? ✨
- Have you done any form of self-care recently? Would you like to share what you have done for self-care? ✨
- Any plans for next week? ✨
"Mental health problems don’t define who you are. They are something you experience. You walk in the rain and you feel the rain, but, importantly, YOU ARE NOT THE RAIN.” — Matt Haig"
(Thank you @theriverissrising for the inspiration😄)
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@CalmWaves3939 - Calm!!! :)
No one has replied to this? :P okay well I'll be first then. and maybe last as it is written for the week ending today.
✨ How have you been feeling this week with 3 emojis? ✨ I've had issues before with people misunderstanding my emojis. So... the 'looking very tired' emoji. 2nd, the 'I'm so very tired of things changing around me' emoji; or maybe 'frustrated' emoji. and 3rd, an emoji that shows "feeling stuck.''
✨ Have you done any form of self-care recently? (if so, please share what you've done as self-care.) ✨ Last week, I would say my self-care is/was going to my appointments. I usually have one appt a day (therapy, doctor, dentist, case manager, etc etc) on 4 of 5 working days. Yesterday, (Sat Sept 10), I called to a "crisis line" first telling her I'm not in crisis, but I just really need to talk with someone! That was good self care.
✨ Any plans for next week? ✨ For this coming week, I will prepare ahead of time for my meeting on Friday. I am 'only' meeting with a friend, but I need to figure out what I want to tell her and how to explain so that I hope she will not be angry with me. Also I think I need to remind her that having an eating disorder does not only affect my food intake, or not only at "official" meal times. Maybe I need to kind of start over with her so that she might know how difficult even "normal" eating is for me. And that is completely separate from the things we usually talk about! I don't know, I just wish she would understand better. Suggestions??
@CalmWaves3939 the last quote? Who is Matt Haig?
Me, Platy - I, for one, am thankful you've decided to do a weekly check-in here. Now I just need to remember to come back and do them :)
Oh and if you're reading to this point? Would you please pray for me in regards to my teeth, my mouth, jaw bone (upper and lower), etc? I would definitely appreciate that. Thanks, Platy
@cyanPlatypus6370
Great to see you in the community Platy ✨ It is good to see you have been doing self-care by going to your appointments! Great to hear you are reaching out for support 💛 I know it can be hard discussing eating disorders with friends and it can be a touchy subject but it sounds like you are doing some planning and self-care 😊
Here is a link that is useful for talking and telling people about eating disorders: How to Tell Someone You Have an Eating Disorder - Beat (beateatingdisorders.org.uk) ☀️
Matt Haig is a self-help author 🌟
I am praying for you Platy and you will be in my thoughts ✨
Thank you for the tip on not doing a check-in right at the end of the week! Next time I will maybe do it in the middle or start 😮✨
