It was a group of people put together who they felt would benefit from even just 2 days worth. SO much emotional trauma here for this group of people, not one of us has zilch baggage carried around for decades. I am the only one here who has not been previously and they have all attended the 2 week and 4 week programs. They all say the weekend ones are better and will continue to only do weekend visits. Me, I'm not so sure, it's a 3&1/2 drive, but, we shall see. Yesterday was a tough day, very tough, but we did some exercises of the mind where at one stage all my pain just left my body, it was a very surreal feeling and so immediately noticeable. Lasted for about 2 minutes. If I can work on that, I hope to expand the duration.

Hi Pam,
Just checking to see how things went this past weekend.
Was it productive?
Glad you attended?
What kind of mind exercises did you do that enabled your pain to leave your
body? .....very interesting.
D.

Hi D, it was good and I am glad I went. I couldn't tell you exactly what exercise it was that we did, he had us do a number of mindful exercises throughout the day and I think they all came together in that one moment, combined and the result was the lifting of the pain. It was surreal, I had hoped he would do it again on day two but it was instead based on the trauma each of us had experienced and we only did a meditation exercise before end if day. I struggled with that one as I couldn't lie comfortably at all. I will def go again if the opportunity arises.

Christmas Eve 6am seafood shopping (only in Aus) carpark manic and people crazy I got only a bump but enough to throw me off balance and fall against my car. My handbag took the brunt, in it my iPad with screen now shattered. He of course reversing caught me with his SUV corner blind spot left the scene, no cctv footage and no number plates.

Christmas night and now I'm really feeling the pain it hurts to bend into the fridge to pack away the festive leftovers. DB busy caught up with his own poor health jumped off his wagon into the bottles lure and is oblivious. But the kids said its the best Christmas they have ever had so it was worth it.

I put all I had into Christmas Day with cleaning and cooking to get everything ready for the evening /night celebrations. Up at 5am to cook the bird and begin cleaning, moving furniture to create room for Santa & 9 eat in comfort at the big table. The 2 young ones on their own little table closer to the floor (my old aerobic step came up a treat decorated with cloth and crackers) began cooking the pork at 3pm along with the ham and at 6 began shelling the prawns. Good thing I have 3 ovens. I squeezed in a shower at 4, I reckon I needed it! The family began to arrive around 6ish, DB home at 7 and at 7.30 Santa arrived. Bed never felt so wonderful!

Girl
You and I went at it
And like I was told
The best Christmas ever
All of my children their husband partner
Most importantly my sons partner Jason brought my son to the
house as he was released from the hospital I was the only one that
had no clue
My guests one friend for thirty years has an only child
the same age as Christine both her and Patrick the same age
thirty years old came also with his fiancé enamored with my
granddaughter
Patrick is part of this family as a family member
He was watched over by me
grew up with my children
Took them to the circus
Played in my backyard with my children all his life
That's how close he is too us
To know you kicked butt and everyone was happy
made me happy
Jeez the ham was out of this world
My eldest baked homemade biscuits
I am most certain my OCD THAT KICKED IN TWO DAYS BEFORE
Christmas Day
Now we have something we can reflect on
It puts a smile on my face when a new friend invited
called and said
"It was the best Christmas I ever had"
Says enough
God bless you and family as You push through with the pain
Love and support
Me