Three Good Things Today (Part 9)

[Kizzie]

Here is a thread in which you can record 3 good things, large or small that happened in your day.  It focuses us on the fact that even on bad days there are usually some good things that happen. On really good days it reminds us that we are moving out of the dark storm of CPTSD more and perhaps that our EFs are fewer and less intense. And how good is that?!

[AphoticAtramentous]

Good things today...
1. We have so many good things that we now have a part 9 of this thread, heh.
2. I bought an outdoor security camera, haven't set it up yet but already somehow feeling safer from the mere anticipation. I also have thought of other plans to make my house more secure which I look forward to implementing later when I have the time.
3. I watched my cat clean her back leg by holding it close to her face with both front paws. Every now and then her leg would slip from her grip and she'd wrestle herself trying to get it back. It was just very cute and heartwarming to watch.
4. I was able to use my technical knowledge to train my colleague. Am proud of how much I know about the work I do.

Regards,
Aphotic.

[Lolly728]

1. I didn't feel like collapsing and was fairly productive.
2. The summer foliage is still quite green and lush and feels like a hug from Mother Earth.
3. I played some guitar and sang and it felt great.

[Blueberry]

1. I didn't feel like collapsing and was fairly productive.

   from a fellow collapser. It's just so wonderful when there are times of non-collapse

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1) I'm looking after 3 guinea pigs and they're making progress in trusting me
2) Even the most skittish and anxious one took a few blades of grass one by one from my fingers
3) Really good singing lesson today, in a body therapy kind of way. I left smiling like the Cheshire cat

[Lolly728]

To be honest, most of the time I don't. I don't like collapsing, there is so much I want to do in life.

I totally understand the joy that singing brings and how it floods your body, particularly after a good lesson, but really any time.

[WeAreAllAPartOfUniverse]

1. I managed an important deadline today and was experiencing fear and sadness while I was taking care of my task. But it wasn't stopping me. I thought: ,,This is what you've done to me! This us you!My feelings are valid, but don't stop me!"
2. I went out to a concert from one of my modt beloved artists with my husband.
3. On that concert I met a women, who went there on her own, and she was just a nice soul.
Thankful for today <3

[AphoticAtramentous]

1. I have enough work experience that I was able to sit a group of colleagues down and train them. It was daunting, but I did it...
2. It's started raining and it's supposed to rain for a few more days this week. Rain is very calming.
3. I sated my craving for matcha milk tea.

Regards,
Aphotic.

[Blueberry]

To be honest, most of the time I don't. I don't like collapsing, there is so much I want to do in life.

Sorry for misunderstanding thru assuming your collapsibility is like mine. I can't actually avoid it by wanting to, doesn't work.

Anyway to the topic of this thread: 3 Good Things Today

1) Really good trauma therapy session today

2) Saw a nutria for the first time. It was wandering around the train station, which was probably not a Good Thing for the nutria, but it was interesting to see it. Lots of people waiting at the station got all chatty too, after deliberating on who to phone so the nutria could be rescued.

3) I cooked myself a bunch of different veg and some noodles this evening, first time cooking in 'quite a while' apart from heating up a few items of convenience food in the oven.

4) I went to our local library's games evening. It was fun.

5) Near my therapist's office a beggar was sitting by the road singing what sounded like hymns to me, in a language I don't recognise. It sounded hauntingly beautiful. I put a few coins in her cap and when she paused briefly I asked what she was singing and it turned out to be spiritual music, in Rumanian. I think she was Rom. I stood around briefly just to listen.

[greencat]

1. I needed to make a phone call that I was dreading, because I always dread phone calls. I made the call, and now I don't have to worry about making it anymore.
2. I had a yummy dinner.
3. I am enjoying my current audiobook.

[Blueberry]

I needed to make a phone call that I was dreading, because I always dread phone calls. I made the call, and now I don't have to worry about making it anymore.

I dread making phone calls too, tho it has got better over the years. I find there's always at least one person on the forum who has some symptom or problem that I have, I'm never alone with whatever.

Anyway      on having made the phone call

[Hope67]

1) I put some scented body butter on my feet.
2) I did 10 minutes of some body movement.

[Blueberry]

1) It's taking somewhat less effort for me to get up, do things, leave the house

2) I took a couple of little walks today, from A to B, but nice walks anyway due to autumn colours, being by little river etc

3) Discovered today that my choir director is giving up one choir, but not both!!

[Blueberry]

1) Continued improvement in getting up, doing bits of this and that and especially in leaving the house!

2) I picked some garden flowers including some big showy red ones (type of hibiscus maybe) and so have three vases of flowers dotted about my apartment. (The hibiscus were actually on the compost heap since LL had cut them back completely tho they're not quite over. Otherwise I never would have dared to take them. While still attached to the rooted plant, they belong in the garden.)

3) The sun shone briefly and brightly in the afternoon, which I first enjoyed sitting in front of my living-room window phoning someone and then enjoyed in the garden, where I felt able to do a little weeding w/o worrying about LL stipulating 'all or nothing'. Nice to weed in the warm autumn sun.

4) I just had a nice chat with my godson, who's coming to visit in a few days. He's very much looking forward to what I'd tentatively planned for Sunday to Monday, so that's great and helps me look forward to the visit with less anxiety etc

[Blueberry]

1) Had a good trauma therapy session this morning. I was more spontaneously willing to continue looking at things on my own as they will probably come up within the next week. That's heartening because it's a willingness from within my feelings, not my head. It was Inner Child work and I managed to dialogue well and interpret well within the session too.

2) The sun has been shining all day and I've been out in the garden enjoying it while doing odd jobs as well as enjoying the warmth and light coming into my apartment

3) Continue to get on better with tidying and cleaning. Still difficult, but less difficult. Been doing some tidying, but also washing and then hanging it out to dry in the   

[Blueberry]

1) Managed some tidying and quite a bit of cleaning today

2) It was warmer than expected today, which was nice, and I went into town centre in the morning, ran into quite a few people I know to say 'hello' to etc. and I noticed how that upped my mood. I also got everything done in town that I'd planned, without even checking my little list, which maybe helped a little too

3) Had good Zoom Group.