Tag: 5 ways

  • Positives week 2 Day 1 and 2

    I have got a bit lost with the positives this week so I best catch up. I have been feeling even more unwell than usual so finding positives is hard, but they are there if you try. Yesterday I was very grateful to my friend Pat for organising for the books left from the book…

  • Yuck, yuck, yuck!

    Well that’s me and the weather.  It’s miserable today, I was glad that it was not me on school run this morning. Emily went wrapped up in her new school coat complete with lopsided bunches.  I am useless at doing hair anyway, but she won’t keep still either and by the time she comes home…

  • Struggling and calender pin up!

    The days and weeks seem to be getting more difficult and my energy is quickly depleted, but then when I realise how much we are doing its hardly surprising.  As today is 1st of October I turned my calender over to find there is hardly day where I don’t have something on and that’s on…

  • Positives Week 2 day 1

    Here goes week 2 of looking for positives, so for yesterday I have, having physio and getting some relief from my pain, getting to 5 ways (this will always be a big achievement for me) and Emily being enthusiastic about her homework. The next task was connecting with people.  I am not very good at…

  • Be active, lol!

    At the 5 ways session today we started to talk about being active and how that improves well being.  I felt rather awkward and there is no point in saying I can’t be active, no one understands.  If I am too active it makes me more ill and results in pain and fatigue that most…

  • Positives Day 4 and 5

    My positives for yesterday and today. Firstly last night was very impressed with Emily asking to do her homework and sticking with it, despite the fact it was difficult and took both of us an hour to get through it.  Although it was very hard work for me to stick at it too, was an…