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

GLP CircleA peer support community

Member since August 2024

Rin

Journalling daily since week one.

Manchester, UK · Manchester, thirty-eight, nurse, journalling daily since week one.

Their journal

46 entries, and Rin is still writing.

  • Nothing happened again

    Saturday 23 May 2026week 92content energy 32 replies

    Quickly, before bed. Wednesdays are just Wednesdays now. Steady. Nothing happened again. I am aware that is now the fourth month running I have written that, and I have…

  • Weather, not a verdict

    Friday 10 Oct 2025week 59low energy 13 replies

    Ten minutes then I am asleep. Three months of no change and my blood pressure has come down anyway. Two things can be true at once and I keep having to relearn that. Flat,…

  • A new bin and a plan

    Tuesday 2 Sep 2025week 54organised energy 1

    Small logistics win: worked out where the pen actually lives in a fridge shared with four other people and a toddler's yoghurts. Tested three cool bags against a thermometer…

  • Steady

    Friday 22 Aug 2025week 52steady energy 21 reply

    Quickly, before bed. An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is what most of it looks like. Nothing to report. Writing it down anyway, on the theory…

  • Awake at four

    Thursday 14 Aug 2025week 51foggy energy 44 replies

    Ten minutes then I am asleep. 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…

All of Rin’s journal

Milestones

Conversations they started

Recent check-in answers

6 Jun 2026 — What is the last thing you moved for pleasure rather than duty?

A long walk on the fells with nowhere to be.

19 May 2026 — What went wrong this week?

Hardest part is that I am supposed to be the one who copes.

11 Apr 2026 — What is the state of your week?

Short and good. Those are rare and I am recording it.

30 Mar 2026 — What are you avoiding thinking about?

Acceptance. Which is not resignation, and I keep having to relearn the difference.

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