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a white woman with long hair (me) has an arm and a leg sticking out of an upstairs window and is grinning
February 16, 2019October 17, 2019 Fatigue Fairy

Trying To Get Off The Optimism Train

two white women doing star jumps against a blue sky
September 12, 2017October 17, 2019 Fatigue Fairy

10 Ways You Can Help A Mentally Ill Friend

Promo shot of Jodie Whittaker as the Doctor with her three companions grouped around her. They're all wearing the formalwear they were in in Spyfall.
January 5, 2020 Fatigue Fairy

Adding to the Pile of Good Things: New Doctor Who

My Distraction Lolly Sticks. A Bunch of lolly sticks in a mug, each with a different distraction or soothing technique written on it.
December 17, 2019 Fatigue Fairy

Aboard the Ship Self-Help 6: Self Soothing

Two pictures. On the right, me ten years ago, leaping in the air with my arms outstretched. On the left, me now, lying in bed.
December 1, 2019 Fatigue Fairy

It’s Ten Years since the Beginning of the Decade!

The background is text from Brené Brown's Rising Strong. Over it, in a black box, is written, you can't just read the book, you have to live it.
November 27, 2019 Fatigue Fairy

Aboard the Ship Self-Help 5: A Successful Integration

A shiny new laptop! Donna Noble is on the screen.
November 24, 2019 Fatigue Fairy

Adding to the Pile of Good Things: Computer

Black and white picture of the Tardis console. Around it and looking upwards, from left to right, are Ian, the first Doctor, Barbara, and Susan.
November 19, 2019 Fatigue Fairy

Adding to the Pile of Good Things: Classic Doctor Who

Barbed wire is stretched across a blurry scene of green grass and trees. Below the wire is written sometimes I can sever the cruelty-pain link someone has forged between us.
November 3, 2019November 3, 2019 Fatigue Fairy

Boundaries Again: The Doing!

A sillhouetted branch of thorns, with writing over them which reads, trying to deny something I'm ashamed of is like a thorn in the knickers.
October 31, 2019October 31, 2019 Fatigue Fairy

Aboard the Ship Self-Help 4: Integration

An oil filled heater on wheels.
October 7, 2019October 7, 2019 Fatigue Fairy

Adding to the Pile of Good Things: Electric Heater

A little heap of small stones tumbling out of a bag. Writing on one of them is visible and reads, paint or draw.
September 29, 2019September 29, 2019 Fatigue Fairy

Aboard the Ship Self-Help 3: Coping Stones

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