Support group

Being stressed and anxious, as difficult as it is to suppress that, won't change the outcome.

And I think something that really encouraged me to share today is I actually joined the support group for the Expecting After event.

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and I was nervous I was a little bit like I don't know I haven't really shared my story before and like I said I'm a pretty private person and I was talking to them and realized that we've had similar experience we've gone through different paths we've the people in that group have experienced different things than I have, but we have the same feelings.

And your story matters just as much as anyone else's.

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And I felt like that after the support group yesterday too.

And I, left it feeling hopeful.

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two support groups for my chronic illness stuff.

Not knowing, I was told it was like this young adult chronic illness, you know, support group.

Everyone's welcome, everyone's supportive, whatever.

We're here because I need to learn these tools better and I need to keep practicing them in my life.

And if the use of these tools and the practice of them is making a positive change in your life or not so positive change, maybe you want to discuss how we have somebody come to the support group for years now who whenever it comes up and she's really stuck, we talk about the worksheets and she gets angry and says, you know, they don't work for me.

Or most of the time when I do a worksheet, I feel worse than rather than better.

Well, that may not be the tool for you.

Because nobody knows what I'm going through except me because I'm the one creating what I'm going through.

So we have plenty of time for comments, questions, and answers.

Today is a Tuesday, so there will be a support group at 6 to 8 p.m. in the Central Time Zone.

You can join us through Zoom.

Go to God in prayer instead of sending endless emails.

Join our support group and speak with parents who are going through the same thing to find wisdom.

Next, I would say own your mistakes.

Do not become defensive.

Others were left unoccupied, representing those who couldn't come or who were afraid to face what they wanted to escape.

I was invited to join a support group that night, a group for college students from first year to graduate school to come together and talk about their gender identities and form of expression.

Ten years ago, if I'd been invited to this type of group, it most likely would have been held for folks who identify as either trans men or trans women.

Now I sat in a room of 14 people and 10 out of the 14 students identified as non-binary, meaning they weren't aligning with being a man or a woman.

As the crowd started to dwindle, he set the book down and quietly asked if he could speak with me the next morning.

I thought about the long drive home the next day, but decided taking a little time out of my schedule for him was important.

We agreed to meet at the McDonald's in town at 7.30 a.m. As they both left the auditorium, a couple of students from the support group came up to me.

One of them was a student that had come to the group late.

I have a Zoom call.

Every night I do a Sunday night, private Sunday night Zoom call for my support group called the Mental Healers and whatnot.

I got to hop off and do that right now.

Y'all interested in joining the mental healers is off of YouTube off of Facebook is a private support group.

Check out mental illness.net. You can find more information about it right there.

Um, I'll be live again on one of my platforms tomorrow.