A peer support community, independent and not for sale. Since February 2024.

GLP CircleA peer support community

Member since April 2024

Martha

Sixty-eight. Here for the strength circle and the company.

Cork, IE · Cork, sixty-eight, retired school principal, arthritis, lives alone since her husband died in 2021.

Their journal

45 entries, and Martha is still writing.

  • Nothing happened again

    Monday 16 Mar 2026week 98content energy 13 replies

    A brief account of the week. Wednesdays are just Wednesdays now. Steady, twice-weekly strength work, two years of entries. Two years. My only news is that there is no news,…

  • Sunday night, four lines

    Wednesday 18 Feb 2026week 95held energy 24 replies

    A brief account of the week. 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…

  • A printout I cannot read

    Sunday 1 Feb 2026week 92brisk energy 32 replies

    She reduced one of my other medications. I asked her twice whether that was really allowed. Left with a printout I could not read and no idea what to be worried about. Taking…

  • An unremarkable week

    Friday 16 Jan 2026week 90flat energy 11 reply

    A brief account of the week. An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is what most of it looks like. Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine…

  • Quiet

    Wednesday 31 Dec 2025week 88fine energy 53 replies

    Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, and then a normal weekend. No news. The dog is well, the weather has been foul, and I have taken my medication on…

All of Martha’s journal

Milestones

Recent check-in answers

9 Jul 2026 — What did you eat standing up today?

Enjoyed a slice of my sister-in-law's cake more than anything else this month.

11 Jun 2026 — What is the last thing that felt like progress and had no number attached?

Won the appeal.

25 May 2026 — What made today ordinary?

It looks like having a project-shaped hole in my life, which I am still adjusting to.

17 May 2026 — What are you putting off asking a clinician?

What the evidence actually says about ten years of this, and I already know the answer is that there is not much.

Buddy

ongoingPCOS

Two decades of being told to try harder

Martha and Rin between them have about thirty years of being told the problem was effort, and a shared wariness about being pleased too soon.

Martha and Rin · since February 2025