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GLP CircleA peer support community

The first twelve weeks

Call recaps

Written up afterwards by the facilitator. There are no recordings of any circle call and there never will be — it is a design position, not an oversight — and nobody is identified beyond a first name.

  • What the twelfth week is not

    14 Jan 202615 attendedheld by Esi

    Five people in the room were within a fortnight of the end of their first twelve weeks and all five had quietly decided that something was supposed to happen. Nothing happens. That was…

  • Nothing tastes the way it used to

    5 Feb 202511 attendedheld by Esi

    A call about taste and smell, which sounds minor and repeatedly turns out not to be. Eleven people, and by the end we were not talking about food at all — we were talking about what it…

  • The week the tiredness arrived

    19 Jun 202413 attendedheld by Esi

    Fatigue took the whole hour, which happens roughly every second month in this circle and I have stopped resisting it. Eight of the thirteen were somewhere in weeks three to six and…