Time served · 20 Jun 2026
Member since September 2024
Bel
Suburban, sensible, secretly struggling.
Their journal
46 entries, and Bel is still writing.
Two years, read back
week 94grateful energy 44 replies
Two years today. I have read this journal back from the start this evening and the person in March 2024 was so frightened, and nobody told her it would just gradually become…
Sunday night, four lines
week 79held energy 34 replies
Late, and writing anyway. My buddy noticed something in my journal before I did and asked me a very gentle question about it. Paired up. We text on Sunday nights, four or…
Nothing happened again
week 78content energy 14 replies
Wednesdays are just Wednesdays now. Steady. Nothing happened again. I am aware that is now the fourth month running I have written that, and I have decided it is the best…
Protein first
week 77steady energy 13 replies
Greek yoghurt, eggs, and the limits of both. I have reached the limits of both. I have found five things I can get down when nothing appeals and I have written them on the…
Where the pen lives
week 75organised energy 32 replies
Late, and writing anyway. New sharps bin, and a plan for what happens to it when I move in September. Anchored injection day to my shift pattern rather than to the calendar,…
Milestones
Non-scale · 24 Sep 2025
Played football with both children for an hour
Conversations they started
Week five and I cried at the open fridge
The first twelve weeks
Recent check-in answers
Asked occupational health for a locked drawer and got one the same week.
Nothing appealed. I had yoghurt standing at the counter and called it a win.
Cancelled two things so that Thursday is empty. That is the practical win.
Grief, which arrives without an appointment.