Trauma Support Community Check-in: Monday 26 and Tuesday 27, October 2020
Hello, wonderful people !
I wish you these days go smoothly, and you have a peaceful time the week ahead.
The idea I came up with for this check-in is:
Collect little Good Moments !
There are things that can make us feel good for a lovely little moment.
It might be just for an instant.
Moments we can collect, like small crystal beads in a little box.
It can be eating some chocolate, hearing a song we love, wearing an old sweater, watching flowers, the sun on our face…
The questions I propose you are:
1. What are a few things that can give you such a moment of "feeling good" ?
2. What were some small good moments in your weekend ?
3. How do you feel at this moment ?
I look forward to your answers.
And wish you all the best !
Marcelo.
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@WelcomeToChat
Love the poster so Cool! Nice job!.
Some good moments are when my dad make me laugh, when me and my sister get along.
My friend staying with us, spending time with my dad. Having a late night snack with my brother and friend
Feel kinna drained today having trouble focusing today feel like I Haven't slept but I have.
@Fireskye13
Big Thanks Skye ! You are great !
And thank you for your compliments !
I have seen your energizing presence all over the place.
You fine-tune your interventions to the exact circumstance as needed.
At times you bring your teen youth, fun, and informality to contribute enthusiasm and vitality to the place you are writing, and this Community at large.
When needed, you speak tactfully, empathically, and wisely, giving compassion, love, and thoughtful reflection of the situation.
I admire you for that.
Back to today's topic, you know how to make happy moments out of family and true friendship.
You know how to make those small good moments I talk about.
Regarding sleep, it's so disappointing when you slept enough hours, nonstop, but get up tired, and not even wanting to get back to bed. It happens to me, it's frustrating and perplexing. I haven't figured it out yet.
Thank you again, Skye, for your kindness and for answering these prompts with your characteristic true, honest voice, generously sharing your life experiences with all of us.
Always grateful,
Marcelo.
@WelcomeToChat
Wow thank so much for the kind words and the support. Hang tough stay pawsome ur friend 🔥
@WelcomeToChat
Sleep is definitely complicated!
@Fireskye13
Goodnight Skye !
Rest well.
Sweet dreams...
See you tomorrow !
Marcelo.
@WelcomeToChat
Its funny I jus saw and read ur post right now as ima actually getting ready for bed lol.
Thanks for the wishes I appreciate it may ur dreams be as peaceful as a moonlit meadow.
Hang tough stay pawsome ur friend 🔥 💤💤💤💤
@WelcomeToChat
1. What are a few things that can give you such a moment of "feeling good" ? Chocolate
2. What were some small good moments in your weekend ? Having time alone
3. How do you feel at this moment ? I am feeling a bit insecure and resentful.
@scarletPear1945
Chocolate is pawsome! As is time alone.
I hope you feel better soon. Hang tough stay pawsome ur friend 🔥
@scarletPear1945
Hi !
It surprised me how much we have in common. The same happened to me (in this same check-in) with Jess (NoneTheWiser). Maybe a lot of us have many things in common...
I read in your profile that you like to sing. I do too. I sang in choirs for many years (Bach, mostly). And I also love to sing jazz standards and bossa nova. There is a sense of community in a choir, resembles 7 Cups to me.
I saw you were a Nurse, a most altruistic profession. I have a niece who is also a nurse. I admire her a lot. She was living exhausted these months (works at IC room) until she got Covid. She is “well” now (feels horrible, but out of danger).
My sister also works with adults with very special needs. I admire her, as I admire you.
I also did “reinforcement” schooling for poor kids, and volunteered at the management of a large scale project to improve education for poor children in my country. I value greatly any contribution to education, particularly to those that need more support.
In fact, I value greatly everything I know about you. We have much in common, which helps me estimate so highly your qualities.
Regarding “Chocolate”… What could be better ? It’s like a little package of pleasure to indulge ourselves from time to time. A well-deserved prize for your weekday service and your Sunday devotion to kids that need your help.
Having time alone, and enjoying it, is such a valuable thing ! But few people can do it these days.
You avoid a very prevalent and damaging confusion between solitude and loneliness.
Being alone is not the same as being lonely. Having calm and peace, enjoying the company of ourselves, is a most healthful practice.
It is also required for high-quality activities, like quietly reflecting, or reading a book.
I wish that your wise, compassionate, and balanced approach to life, combining service to others, little pleasures, and moments of solitude, help you to ease those bits of insecurity, and also help with one of life’s greatest challenges. The resolve to forgive.
I thank you very much for your contribution to this check-in, and wish you the best,
Marcelo.
@WelcomeToChat
@Marcello....Such inspiring words, I love the way you write and how your words almost paint a visual picture. I am so glad you are here and I know that your wisdom is going to be a great help to all of us. I hope to be able to chat with you.more.
I send love and light to you as you embark upon your journey here and with your personal journey
@scarletPear1945
Ohh ! Thank you !
You inspired me to write those words. I wasn't but a channel.
I too love to be here, surrounded by wonderful people like you !
There is real healing taking place in this Community.
I can feel it. It's powerful.
Thank you for all your love and kindness.
It's a gift I will not forget.
Marcelo.
@WelcomeToChat
1. What are a few things that can give you such a moment of "feeling good" ?
Taking walks, talking to loved ones on the phone, playing games with my loved ones, cleaning, etc.
2. What were some small good moments in your weekend ?
I took a walk at a new place with many puppies running around, tried a new restaurant, and visited my grandparents.
3. How do you feel at this moment ?
I feel okay today! Things have been really stressful lately, but today hasn't been too bad.
@toucans
Hi Toucan !
I am happy to know you feel well.
You really, really know how to create those small good moments in your life !
Walks, talking to loved ones, playing games, visiting new places, trying new restaurants, visiting loved family…
It`s all exciting and lovely !
We should all practice your ideas. The most possible.
I will.
It will create some happy moments in my life.
Thank you very much for your lively and lovely contribution !
I hope to see more of your posts !
All the best !
Marcelo.
@toucans
Hello, I am glad to meet you too. What kind of puppies do you have? I love dogs they are easy to love with no strings attached.
@scarletPear1945 oh unfortunately I meant there were many puppies running around the park. I don't have any :( I do have a cat and a bearded dragon, but I'd love a dog as well.
@NoneTheWiser
Hiya, ima working on the check in but forgot where you said how to. Ur help greatly appreciated
1. What are a few things that can give you such a moment of "feeling good" ?
Petting or playing with my cat, but also reading a really good book
2. What were some small good moments in your weekend ?
I saw my friends, social distanced of course, but it was still fun!
3. How do you feel at this moment ?
Ok...
@The0Vetoed0System
Hi !
I am glad you feel wellish...
Cats are always a source of tenderness and fun. They are forever willing to be caressed, their fur is so smooth and gentle to our hands, their bodies so warm.
You are lucky to have a playful cat. It’s so much fun, how clever and agile they are, with quick reflexes and skillful hands. They are FAST ! It only takes a crumpled paper ball, or a piece of yarn to play for hours. They love cardboard toilet paper rolls too, cardboard boxes to hide… the list is endless.
What is your cat’s favorite play or toy ?
And reading is wonderful. To become immersed in another world, travel in fantasy, learn something new…
It’s key to find “that book” that captures your attention. Then, it’s all effortless. Like slowly, gently sliding into it.
Technology and the distractions it brings is often pointed to as “The” enemy of reading. But it can be such an ally. Now you can read from your phone, buying from Google Books or Kindle. Get recommendations from Goodreads and Amazon. Used-book online bookstores make it very cheap and easy to buy “real” paper-made books.
And we are lucky to live in this age. In the 1800s only about 10% of people worldwide could read (only 56% in 1950 !)
What’s your favorite genre ? What are you reading now ? Do you have any book recommendations for us ? How do you prefer to read: paper, e-reader, tablet, phone ? How do you choose your books ? (oh, sorry for so many questions…)
Meeting friends is a luxury in these times of “social-distancing” (such a horrible concept has become positive). Good that you could do it.
Continuing with the long Gardening conversation up in this page, and the “happy moments” theme of this check-in, I quote Marcel Proust:
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
Thank you for your lovely contribution to this check-in.
I look forward to your comments.
Kind regards,
Marcelo.
@WelcomeToChat
Oh, cats are sooo adorable. They are different from dogs, more precise in their hunting and playing, but also crazier. My cat is too smart for some toys such as the infamous (In her eyes) laser pointer and isn't very interested in the normal fishing pole style toys. She loves playing with my kumihimo or knitting, which is strange as she only likes playing with the yarn I worked hard on like... smh... but I love her anyway.
How I so agree. To me, reading is like an escape. An escape from reality, from everything wrong here. The worlds I escape to are endless beautiful places, full of mystery and happiness. Always a happy ending, for someone at least. I wish the real world was like that. But alas things will never be as such.
I do love reading dystopian future books, as it's normally every genre into one! It's realistic, has romantic twists, in most books sci-fi, sometimes historical fiction, and mystery. Right now I'm reading The Red Queen, The Thunderhead, the final Trials Of Apollo, and Forge. I majorly recommend the series The Selection, and Hunger Games. Also the first two books of Divergent. I normally read a paper book, as there's something so special about physically turning the page, but I don't mind E-books. And I lot's of the time I'll search dystopian up in the Library catalog and find those books, or go to the library and read the backs and look at the covers of books to read.
Thank you so much, this comment brightened my day. It's sad to be in a place where comments such as these do that, where happiness is so hard to find... but it's still something never to take for granted, happiness is. I've seen it taken for granted before, I never want to end up like them. So I'm grateful for everything that puts a smile on my face, a laugh in my voice.
Sincerely
Emmy (Core/Host of the VetoedSystem)
@The0Vetoed0System
Hi Emmy !
Sure cats have their ways. Very capricious at times. Like your cat likes to meddle with your work. She might notice that you value it a lot. That is “the thing” that’s going on. She is curious, wants to participate, and not to be excluded in the “big event” of the day.
A sign of intelligence, and subtle, complex wishes, no doubt.
I feel that reading is moving to other realm of Reality, not necessarily to “escape”
Those beautiful worlds, full of mystery and happiness, are real in their own terms.
Reality has many levels. We are miriads of waves vibrating in empty spece. Vast and complex systems of atoms and molecules. Trillions of cells cooperating. A human body. Intelligence, conciousness. And conciousness of something, that might be these beautiful, misterious worlds. When in our conciousness, they are real in some sense.
You are a reading athlete ! Alternating among all those huge novels at the same time ! I couldn’t do it anymore.
I agree that Dystopias need some element of realism, and some historical, futuristic or scientific plausibility to be credible and thus engaging, and mystery and romance to thrill us.
As Dystopias go, I often feel living in one. Maybe reflecting the tragedies and injustices of our world in literary form, confined to the space of the book, makes us tune to that, as we can process this controlled tragic worlds as we can’t the other.
I know Divergent and of course The Hunger Games series. Great engaging and satisfying literature.
I have heard of Scythe, I understand it belongs to the “Big Brother” tradition that comes from “1984” to “The Matrix”. Also about “The Selection” series, that resemble Medieval literature and folklore, with its drastic class divisions and noble family politics . I understand that The Red Queen has some familiarity with this.
If you think of all of these and the massive success of other cultural phenomenons, like Star Wars, for example, the combination of futuristic worlds with Middle Ages elements, both real and symbolic, has an enormous appeal.
A great theme for a essay on current literature... (please give me some credit if you write it).
I agree that there is something about the sensation of touching paper, holding the book as an object, and also how easy it is on the eyes without any glass in the middle, that makes reading real paper books incomparable
That I brightened your day, even a little, and put a smile on your face I such a gift for me !
You made my day and my night !
I believe that you will find many happy moments in this lovely Community, so please keep participating with your valuable contributions like this one.
I look forward to it.
And wish you all the best,
Marcelo.
@The0Vetoed0System
Hiya veto, nice to meet you.. I don't have a cat ,but my friend does, I love petting him. Something soothing about a purring kitty laying in your lap.
Books are pawsome, I don't read as much as I used to. What do you like to read? Ima big fan of fantasy adventure, my favorite author is R.A Salvatore..
Spend time with friends is pawsome, glad you had a good time.
Hang tough stay pawsome ur friend 🔥
