Journal
Holly’s journal
Menopause and this at the same time. Nobody warned me.
Stayed for the company
week 8warm energy 24 replies
The facilitator stopped the room when four of us were talking at once and asked one person how she was actually doing. It changed the whole hour. Went for the practical…
Nine minutes
week 7brisk energy 22 replies
Late, and writing anyway. Asked the question I had been avoiding for eleven years. She answered it in about ninety seconds and was completely unbothered. She reduced one of…
I nearly did not write
week 5fine energy 33 replies
A quiet week. I nearly did not write this week because there was nothing in it. Then I thought about how much I have got out of other people's boring weeks. Nothing to…
A different shape
week 4tired energy 44 replies
Waking at four again. Not anxious, just awake, lying there listening to the boiler. Slept through. Whole night, no waking. It has been so long that I lay there in the morning…
Standing in the kitchen
week 2wired energy 2
A quiet week. Day one. I am writing this partly because somebody else's day-one entry is the reason I felt able to do it at all, and it seems only fair to leave one behind.…
Beginning, badly
week 1wired energy 51 reply
Short one tonight. The pharmacist talked me through it very fast and I nodded at all of it and retained about a third. I have written down the bits I remember and I will ask…