Journaling and Ian in the kitchen

October 25, 2023: Well let's do another post that feels like I'm texting. Did the meds at 8:28 this morning with a pancake and two pieces of bacon. This morning was a silent breakfast, which is kind of a perfect exercise for me as I work on being content not surrounded by people.

Afterwards, we did a yoga session that felt a lot more like the yoga I'm used to than the yoga nidra was. It was a bit more gentle than Debi or Jordan'a classes, and I could do everything. The thoughts I arrived at were that I definitely need to buy more hard cover notebooks and that there's no way to predict how severe someone's brain injury will be. Like if someone was run over by a car at 50mph there's no guarantee they'd have a brain injury that's that exact amount worse than someone who was run over at 40mph.

Anyways, at that point I was feeling pretty good and even started asking about volunteering here in future years. Got an email to submit to as well. In a very unrelated event, I started feeling quite depressed later for no reason that I know of. I think it was just because it seems like everyone says you have to leave your old life 100% behind when you accept the TBI, but there's things in my life I DON'T want to lose. Because of that, I had a very important conversation with this woman named Carolyne. More happened in there, but I'm not saying everything lol. Just gonna throw in the selfie I took with Ian in the night after we agreed we were kinda similar, and I'm also including my on time BeReal of me starting to use that amazing book I bought at Half Price that asks you questions about yourself. I just did the page that had you summarize your life in 5-year increments. Kind of a fascinating project, and something I did with mom recently too.

Grateful: I didn’t write this, but I’m positive I was grateful for finding someone I could connect with like Ian. I’d be very interested in volunteering there in the future too.