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  • Circle tonight

    Gwenda6 May 2025warm energy 3

    Somebody new tonight, terrified, exactly where I was in the spring. I said the thing that had been said to me and watched it land. The facilitator stopped the room…

  • Off the floor

    Inês6 May 2025pleased energy 5turning point

    Short one tonight. Got down on the floor and back up again unaided. I have not been able to do that since 2021 and I did it twice more just to check. Full shift on…

  • Nothing to report

    Ives6 May 2025steady energy 1

    This week: An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is what most of it looks like. No news. The dog is well, the weather has been foul, and I…

  • Stayed for the company

    Marnie6 May 2025warm energy 3

    A quiet week. Circle tonight. Eight of us, an hour, and about eleven minutes of actual information. The rest was the point. The facilitator stopped the room when four…

  • Steady

    Petua6 May 2025fine energy 2

    A quiet week. No news. The dog is well, the weather has been foul, and I have taken my medication on the correct day for the eleventh week running. Quiet. Injection…

  • No news

    Rafe6 May 2025steady energy 1

    A brief account of the week. An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is what most of it looks like. Nothing to report. Writing it down…

  • Back without making it up

    Tilda6 May 2025tired but good energy 3

    Three things this week. Came back after a bad fortnight without trying to make up the lost ground, which is the thing that used to end it for me every time. Walked…

  • A plain question

    Tulla6 May 2025steady energy 5

    This week: I have found five things I can get down when nothing appeals and I have written them on the fridge. That list is the most useful thing I own. Was…

  • An unremarkable week

    Bel5 May 2025fine energy 3

    Steady. That is the whole entry. Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, and then a normal weekend. Better tomorrow, probably.

  • A plain question

    Bo5 May 2025practical energy 3turning point

    A quiet week. Was undereating without realising. The nurse asked a plain question about what I had actually eaten in the last two days and I heard my own answer.…

  • Anchored to the shifts

    Bunny5 May 2025organised energy 1

    Evening. Anchored injection day to my shift pattern rather than to the calendar, which solved a problem I had been feeling guilty about for four months. Tested three…

  • Two flights of stairs

    Fen5 May 2025quietly delighted energy 3

    Carried both bags up in one go. Small thing. Wrote it down. Tied my own laces standing up. I am aware of how that sounds and I do not care. Flat again. Good.

  • Nothing to report

    Moss5 May 2025flat energy 5

    A gentle week, mostly. I nearly did not write this week because there was nothing in it. Then I thought about how much I have got out of other people's boring weeks.…

  • A wedding

    Ned5 May 2025loved energy 4

    A quiet week. Somebody asked what my secret was and I froze completely. Still working out what I want to say to that. Starters as a main course, permanently. No…

  • I nearly did not write

    Pippa5 May 2025flat energy 2

    Sitting down to this properly tonight. Nothing to report. Writing it down anyway, on the theory that a journal made only of eventful weeks would give a false…

  • Circle tonight

    Ravi5 May 2025warm energy 5

    Notes for the week. Circle tonight. Eight of us, an hour, and about eleven minutes of actual information. The rest was the point. The facilitator stopped the room…

  • Two lines a day

    Ronan5 May 2025organised energy 5

    This week: Tested three cool bags against a thermometer this weekend because I am that person. Results written up for the travel circle. Batch cooked on a good day…

  • A different shape

    Sorrel5 May 2025foggy energy 1

    This week: Vivid dreams, every night, the sort you have to sit up and shake off. Two other people in circle have the same and none of us can find anything written…

  • Two lengths, badly

    Toby5 May 2025grateful energy 1turning point

    Quickly, before bed. Sat on the floor and played for an hour, and then got up. That was the entire reason I started, and I have now done it. Played football with both…

  • Unpleasant, not dangerous

    Zoë5 May 2025flat energy 1

    Quickly, before bed. Constipation, which I have avoided writing about for six weeks out of pure squeamishness. It is the thing making me most miserable and I have…

  • Sore and slow

    Ammi4 May 2025sore energy 4

    The nausea has a shape to it now. Thursday teatime it starts, Friday it peaks, Saturday afternoon it lifts. Once I could see the pattern it stopped feeling like…

  • Sunday night, four lines

    Ashwin4 May 2025held energy 4

    Week in order: My buddy noticed something in my journal before I did and asked me a very gentle question about it. Nobody has ever asked me how I was doing on a…

  • Six labelled boxes

    Nell4 May 2025organised energy 5

    A quiet week. Small logistics win: worked out where the pen actually lives in a fridge shared with four other people and a toddler's yoghurts. Anchored injection day…

  • My mother cooks

    Dev4 May 2025loved energy 1

    My mother cooks. That is how she says it. So I eat what I can, slowly, and I say thank you, and we manage. It is not a problem to be solved. Starters as a main…