Janine Fourie Social Work

03/07/2024

This is a great safety guide for children swimming in lakes and swimming pools. The color of the bathing suit can make it easier or more difficult to see children while they are swimming. This is a good reminder to always have adult supervision when children are swimming. (Thanks to Praire Lakes for this.)

**While the green/blue/aqua colored bathing suits are pretty for this time of year, they may not be what’s best! 😉

16/04/2024

The Turks are also cat lovers, just saying

11/12/2023

11/12/2023

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=372607328623787&id=100076235670695&mibextid=Nif5oz

"Hosting Sad"
Donna Ashworth
Sometimes I wake up sad. For no reason.
And I know, as soon as my eyes open, that today, I am sad.
I can choose positive thoughts, have a cold shower, run on the treadmill, but I will still be sad.

And counting my blessings, on days like this, makes me even more sad.
How lucky I am and how tenuous that is.
How others are not so blessed and how unfair that is.

And I’ve learned to accept these little bouts of sad, or soul-flu, as I have now come to call them.
They are not within my control, this I know.
I don’t fear them anymore, they can’t harm me - because I don’t ‘become’ them.

I just let my ‘sad’ in the door and say “hey, how are you, take a seat…but don’t stay too long please, I have things to do.”

And I rumble along in my mental kitchen, making tea, emptying the dishwasher. And my sad sits there and just exists, without judgement or acrimony. Just acceptance.

I know she is many things, you see, other than just sad. She is love, she is grief. She is fear, she is weariness and worry, and really, she puts up with rather a lot in this life.

So I give her a cup for tea. And listen to her sorrows, until she’s ready to go back outside again.

Sometimes I wake up and sad has already let herself in.
But I don’t scold her for that.
She’ll go soon.
And really, she deserves a warm place, every now and again, this world gives her much to bear.

Sometimes, I wake up sad.
For no reason.
And that’s okay.

P.S: when sad is visiting, I look like exactly the same. You would never know I’m hosting her…unless you ask.
✍️ Donna Ashworth
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[Art: Bettina Baldassari Bettina Baldassari - BettiPigna ]

16/07/2023

This is very true, often the first roadblock on the way to healing is unjustified guilt

13/07/2023

Just when I thought I had heard the worst of humanity, my helper lives in Cosmos City and her landlord won't let them turn the heaters on because they use electricity. This kind of oxygen thief makes me feel so helpless, there should be something we can do but he's just one piece of scum among so many. It's overwhelming.

26/06/2023

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/12/30/258313116/mapping-emotions-on-the-body-love-makes-us-warm-all-over

How do you know you're in love? Angry? Or sad? Emotions start off in the brain, then ripple through the whole body. Now scientists have charted where we consciously feel specific emotions. They hope these sensation maps will one day help diagnose and treat mood disorders.

24/05/2023

Aww lol 🐱🧶🐈🐈‍⬛