Dipping a Toe In...

[Gently]

I am here to introduce myself to this online community, as a starting place. I am grateful for the opportunity to learn together with other people who can share a sort of "short hand" for our daily experiences. I discovered group work in the earlier stages of my therapeutic journey, and have been amazed at the power of being together with others who understand easily, and who are care-full. I have begun to learn to be careful by the examples of the beautiful people in group.

Being careful with myself has been a long time coming, and is a tender thing to even acknowledge.

I have not read through the posts on this forum yet, but I am hopeful that doing so will be supportive in those moments and on those days when I really need friends who can relate, and help to make my reality make sense. Maybe my posts will do the same for some of you.

[Alexandra]

Hello Gently ; Welcome . You are right, it is so very important to be caring towards yourself, self-compassion, has helped me, after all of the violence , being  kind and caring to myself, does help me to feel better. Alexandra

[TheBigBlue]

Hi Gently, 

I'm really glad you're here. The way you describe "short hand" and being care-full with yourself really resonated, that's such a meaningful (and not easy) shift.

You'll find many people here who understand ... I hope this space can be supportive for you on those harder days and in between.

Looking forward to hearing more from you. 💛

[NarcKiddo]

Welcome. I'm glad you found us and am happy to read that you have learned to be careful with yourself. It's not an easy thing to acknowledge and achieve for the likes of us, so well done.

As you dip into the posts on the forum you may be surprised by just how much all of our experiences mirror those of others. I found it to be a very comforting revelation because it's very easy to imagine we are the only person in the world who feels this way, and that we are weird for doing so.

[Gently]

Thank you all for your warm welcome. That in itself is strong medicine for me.