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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

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

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

A grey stone rests on fabric with a floral pattern. There is purple writing on the stone which reads, to live is to be vulnerable.
September 18, 2019September 29, 2019 Fatigue Fairy

Aboard the Ship Self-Help 2: But won’t being vulnerable make me really vulnerable…?

A bad watercolour picture I painted of a person in a small dinghy with the name Self-Help on its stern.
September 14, 2019September 14, 2019 Fatigue Fairy

Welcome to my Voyage on the Good Ship Self-Help

A woodland scene with deciduous trees growing close together. On the largest tree trunk is a white notice with keep out written on it in marker pen.
August 4, 2019 Fatigue Fairy

What are These Boundary Things and How do I get One?

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