Trauma Support Check-in February 20th - 26th

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Hi! I just have to say, I love what you wrote about how it's a new week which means a chance for new memories! Something...just clicked - that's exactly right! Right now - is the time to create new happy memories to help ...maybe , override all the bad ones - balance things out a bit. This has been lacking in my life - so overcome by all the bad ones that I forgot to stop and make sure my current ones are something ... more joyful and safe! Thank you! ❤️

1. What's something new you've tried for the first time?

I had to really think about this. I have been locked up inside my own head for so long that I stopped trying new things. Been just surviving each day. Honestly, have not done or tried anything new for a very long time - but, now I want to! I just don't know what to do, lol.

2. What's something new you would like to try?

I would like to learn Cantonese.

3. How are you doing?

I am really struggling tbh. I have hit a wall in therapy and just can't push anymore with memory work - some part of me just won't let me talk. I stopped talking with friends for about a week...2 weeks...maybe more? And I can't explain to them why - so they are just mad at me - and I don't blame them. I pushed my friends away yet I am the one feeling alone and lost. I have always dissociated - but now it's really becoming a problem and interfering with my life. And I look around at my life and myself and I am so upset because I just stopped...living, my life. I feel like a shell of a human being. Everything is so empty.

@WriteToHeal42

1. I tried fried oysters this week. They were arright. The sauce for them was really good.

2. I want to try snowboarding or surfing. Or milking a cow. 😂 For no reason other cows are wonderful.

3. Uhhhh I feel like having more alone time. People won't stop needing me all the time. Like, all the time. I don't even have kids.

1. What's something new you've tried for the first time?

I worked on a new kind of report at work this quarter! I started out dreading every day of work on it but then I remembered I love doing the kind of work I get to do every day (as opposed to other jobs I've had) and I tried to reframe it in a way that didn't get caught up in the deadline and let me enjoy the work itself a little more. Even if I still don't enjoy it all the time.

2. What's something new you would like to try?

I would love to have a weekly work date with a coworker in person. We're still remote, and I am glad of it (though I don't think it will last another summer) because of all the cases here but I am also so lonely. A one-on-one in person half day would be such a nice place to do a power hour style of work and not be so isolated.

3. How are you doing?

I can feel that I am close to a freak out episode and I am desperately trying to skip it. If I make it through today without sliding down into that space I will consider it a victory. But I might still slide, and I think I will survive that too.

Hello! Hope you are doing well :-)

1. Something new that I have tried, I started working out often recently and I’ve been more consistent than the times before!

2. Something that I would like to try is roller skating outside of going to a rink. So essentially I want to buy my own skates and get into learning at home.

3. I’m doing okay. Currently feeling a bit anxious, not going lie but, I look around me and things are okay. My heart is beating, i’m breathing, i’m okay.

@WriteToHeal42

1. What's something new you've tried for the first time?

I've been very outspoken and standing up for myself, which is very new.

2. What's something new you would like to try?

I would like to try advocating for things I require more often.

3. How are you doing?

Not a question I enjoy answering haha. But I'm okay right now I guess, just very stressed. <3

1. What’s something new you’ve tried for the first time? Nothing really. But I wish I did something.
2. What's something new you would like to try? I think I would like to try going on dates and seeing people😊
3. How are you doing? A very difficult question to answer but for now, okay I guess.