Aw feeling the love people!
And to the modilicious Jamie:
Thank you!
You are amazing!
You make this community worth loving!

Having thought about this some more I'm not sure I would go to one now. I feel as though I am quite far on with a lot of the issues that I've had to work through. I think there probably is a right time to do it, when you are used to talking about it a little, but before you are whittling it down to ...

Yes, I think its useful to be able to talk to as many people as possible, it would be more difficult face to face but I think I'd get more out of it than being online.
I used to think I wouldn't go as I latch on to other peoples pain but i feel strong enough now, that I wouldn't do that and be able ...

I agree that is a great idea to use the piccie as a homepage Poppet.
Cape, cape, cape!! Also you have to have some sort of theme tune as you twirl Jml! and photos or it didn't happen!

All I did was sew it together! - and keep my legs warm in the process..... it then kept me warm in my cold flat when the snow fell...... while I sewed...

I have (hopefully) brought raffle tickets and I too will be keeping everything crossed - but knowing my luck I'll never win it........ :cry ...

It's beautiful!! And a perfect time for me to donate again. JML it's a really wonderful thing to have done, made with such love and a great way to raise money too.
Got my fingers and toes crossed I'll be giving it a home

If the joke that is the 'BMI' chart is what is defining them as obese then no.
There are kids who are technically obese who may well be overfed but at least are eating enough nutrients, more so than a skinnier kid who lives off sweets and juice and cereal. You cannot tell if a kid is given enough ...

I found your response interesting to read Hunny, food for thought..
For me, forgiveness is about acceptance of what happened.
My abuser is dead and I never got the chance to forgive him nor did he ask for forgiveness (my mother refused to visit his deathbed as she knew he would ask hers and she ...

I find this concept interesting..
I was explaining just the other day about how hard it is to escape feeling like a victim. I think first you have to embrace that you are a victim (so you dont live in denial)
In any other crime there is a sense of a 'victim' so you have to allow that without it ...

Im not sure.
I have gone from being angry and despising him to having very little feeling towards him at all, but im not sure if this is a further sense of denial.
I'm not religious, however my mums friend said she would pray for me. One day I woke up feeling so enlightened and I realised that I had ...