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  • Walking

    Maple8 Dec 2024tired but good energy 5

    A gentle week, mostly. Kept the two sessions that matter and dropped the two that were vanity. Fewer, heavier, done. Two sessions this week, both short, both done.…

  • Grip

    Marit8 Dec 2024tired but good energy 1

    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. Grip strength has gone…

  • I nearly did not write

    Mo8 Dec 2024steady energy 1

    Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, and then a normal weekend. An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is what most…

  • Two flights of stairs

    Norah8 Dec 2024pleased energy 3

    Right. Tied my own laces standing up. I am aware of how that sounds and I do not care. Walked into town and back, which I stopped doing years ago without ever…

  • Protein first

    Saoirse8 Dec 2024steady energy 4

    A gentle week, mostly. 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.…

  • Grip

    Solomon8 Dec 2024tired but good energy 1

    Three things this week. 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…

  • An hour on the floor

    Tarn8 Dec 2024grateful energy 4

    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. Sat on the floor and played for an…

  • Off the floor

    Ambrose7 Dec 2024quietly delighted energy 1

    A brief account of the week. 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. Got down on the…

  • A plain question

    Nell7 Dec 2024practical energy 1turning point

    A quiet week. Greek yoghurt, eggs, and the limits of both. I have reached the limits of both. Undereating badly without noticing, caught by her practice nurse. I have…

  • Fewer, heavier

    Hattie7 Dec 2024tired but good energy 1

    Late, and writing anyway. Eight minutes and a chair. That is the whole programme. Tuesday and Friday. I have done it for eleven weeks. Two sessions this week, both…

  • I nearly did not write

    Huw7 Dec 2024fine energy 4

    This week: 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. No news. The…

  • Propped up on pillows

    Keeley7 Dec 2024flat energy 4

    Late, and writing anyway. Headache for three days running. It turned out I had barely drunk anything since Tuesday. Water, then a slow improvement, then feeling…

  • Fewer, heavier

    Moss7 Dec 2024tired but good energy 3

    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 that two…

  • Circle tonight

    Nuala7 Dec 2024warm energy 5

    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 of us were…

  • Six labelled boxes

    Sonia7 Dec 2024organised energy 1

    Sitting down to this properly tonight. Small logistics win: worked out where the pen actually lives in a fridge shared with four other people and a toddler's…

  • Sunday night, four lines

    Thea7 Dec 2024held energy 5

    My buddy noticed something in my journal before I did and asked me a very gentle question about it. She had a bad week and I had a fine one, and next month it will be…

  • She read the diary

    Tilda7 Dec 2024frustrated energy 4

    Week in order: Took the diary in. She read it properly, which I had not expected, and changed the plan because of it. She reduced one of my other medications. I asked…

  • Fewer, heavier

    Wystan7 Dec 2024tired but good energy 4

    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…

  • Paired

    Anna6 Dec 2024held energy 2

    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,…

  • First dose, done

    Lucas6 Dec 2024hopeful energy 1

    The leaflet is nine pages and about seven of them are worst cases. I have read it three times, which was three times too many, and I am now going to stop reading it.…

  • Before nine

    Bunny6 Dec 2024practical energy 2turning point

    Evening. Protein first, everything else after. It is not interesting advice and it is the only advice that has changed anything. Started eating properly at work,…

  • Dreams

    Dora6 Dec 2024rested energy 3

    Three things this week. Waking at four again. Not anxious, just awake, lying there listening to the boiler. The sleep has changed shape rather than improved.…

  • The list on the fridge

    Héloïse6 Dec 2024steady energy 4

    A brief account of the 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…

  • Two flights of stairs

    Holly6 Dec 2024pleased energy 2

    Short one tonight. Walked into town and back, which I stopped doing years ago without ever deciding to stop. Got down on the floor and back up again unaided. I have…