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  • A plain question

    Petua24 Mar 2025steady energy 4

    A quiet week. Spread it across the day instead of trying to do it all at teatime and everything got easier. Was undereating without realising. The nurse asked a plain…

  • Starters as a main

    Prue24 Mar 2025loved energy 1

    A brief account of the week. A wedding. Three courses I could not face, a table of people who noticed, and a very kind waiter who boxed it up without saying a word.…

  • Fewer, heavier

    Sam24 Mar 2025tired but good energy 5

    Recording this for the record. Kept the two sessions that matter and dropped the two that were vanity. Fewer, heavier, done. Came back after a bad fortnight without…

  • Across the day

    Toby24 Mar 2025steady energy 2

    Quickly, before bed. Got something with protein in before nine this morning, which meant the rest of the day did not fall apart at four. Protein first, everything…

  • Both bags, one go

    Ashwin23 Mar 2025pleased energy 2

    Up the stairs at work twice without stopping at the landing. I stood at the top for a second like an idiot. Nobody saw. It counted. Walked into town and back, which I…

  • She noticed first

    Bunny23 Mar 2025held energy 1

    Evening. She had a bad week and I had a fine one, and next month it will be the other way round. That is the whole mechanism. Paired up. We text on Sunday nights,…

  • Nothing to report

    Cass23 Mar 2025flat energy 1

    Notes for the week. Nothing to report. Writing it down anyway, on the theory that a journal made only of eventful weeks would give a false impression of the whole…

  • Dreams

    Dev23 Mar 2025rested energy 2

    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 about it.…

  • She stopped the room

    Gilly23 Mar 2025warm energy 3

    Well then. The facilitator stopped the room when four of us were talking at once and asked one person how she was actually doing. It changed the whole hour. Circle…

  • How are you doing on a Wednesday

    Gus23 Mar 2025held energy 2

    Sitting down to this properly tonight. Nobody has ever asked me how I was doing on a Wednesday before. My buddy noticed something in my journal before I did and asked…

  • Walking

    Izzy23 Mar 2025tired but good energy 5

    Right. Kept the two sessions that matter and dropped the two that were vanity. Fewer, heavier, done. Two sessions this week, both short, both done. Ren keeps saying…

  • Sunday night, four lines

    Marit23 Mar 2025held energy 5

    She had a bad week and I had a fine one, and next month it will be the other way round. That is the whole mechanism. Nobody has ever asked me how I was doing on a…

  • Paired

    Ossian23 Mar 2025held energy 4

    Paired up. We text on Sunday nights, four or five lines each, and it has quietly become the most reliable thing in my week. She had a bad week and I had a fine one,…

  • Grip

    Ravi23 Mar 2025tired but good energy 1

    Notes for the week. Two sessions this week, both short, both done. Ren keeps saying that two a week for two years beats a perfect programme abandoned in March, and he…

  • Dreams

    Ronan23 Mar 2025rested energy 4

    Slept through. Whole night, no waking. It has been so long that I lay there in the morning trying to work out what was different. Repeat study came back and the…

  • Propped up on pillows

    Aleks22 Mar 2025rough energy 2turning point

    The burping. Nobody mentions the burping. It is not in any leaflet and it is genuinely one of the odder experiences of my adult life. Mild. Cramp in both calves in…

  • No mask

    Ash22 Mar 2025rested energy 5

    Well then. The sleep has changed shape rather than improved. Different, not better, and I cannot yet tell whether I mind. Waking at four again. Not anxious, just…

  • Across the day

    Bo22 Mar 2025steady energy 1

    A quiet week. Got something with protein in before nine this morning, which meant the rest of the day did not fall apart at four. Spread it across the day instead of…

  • She stopped the room

    Nell22 Mar 2025warm energy 5

    Went for the practical answers and stayed for the company, which I gather is what everybody does. Circle tonight. Eight of us, an hour, and about eleven minutes of…

  • Awake at four

    Carl22 Mar 2025tired energy 5

    This week: Slept through. Whole night, no waking. It has been so long that I lay there in the morning trying to work out what was different. Vivid dreams, every…

  • Eight minutes and a chair

    Florrie22 Mar 2025tired but good energy 5

    Walked instead of the bus all week. Not a programme. Just walking. Two sessions this week, both short, both done. Ren keeps saying that two a week for two years beats…

  • Back without making it up

    Gigi22 Mar 2025tired but good energy 3

    Evening. Kept the two sessions that matter and dropped the two that were vanity. Fewer, heavier, done. Walked instead of the bus all week. Not a programme. Just…

  • Fewer, heavier

    Ray22 Mar 2025tired but good energy 3turning point

    Well then. Eight minutes and a chair. That is the whole programme. Tuesday and Friday. I have done it for eleven weeks. Started walking with a group, under protest.…

  • Quiet

    Harlan22 Mar 2025flat energy 5

    Recording this for the record. 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…