November is always a difficult month for me. This year has been no different, yet it has been completely different to the other years. Confused? So was I.
My confusion was that my SAD didn’t follow its usual pattern. You can read all about “My SAD confusion” here.
The brighter parts of November
November hasn’t all be bad or confused though. Andrew and I both celebrate our birthdays during November. As a result of my birthday the number of flamingos in the house has increased dramatically. You can read all about our growing flamboyance here. Whilst Andrew reflect on his birthdays, past, present and future here.
Taking it easy in November
During September and October, I was struggling with exhaustion. Lack of sleep meant that I was not re-charging my Spoons properly overnight. To help ensure that my exhaustion didn’t spiral out of control Andrew made me promise not to write any new blogs for a few weeks. This moratorium on new content spilled over into November. The breathing space that this gave me has done me the world of good. It’s also meant that I’ve republished two important blogs. You can read why Endometriosis is NOT simply bad period pain here. If you’d like to watch some of the videos recorded during World Childless Week 2017 about the innocent comments that hurt, you can watch them here.
Laughter and creativity in November
On a lighter note I took a look at my reassessment of what it means to be creative. I’ve had to dig deep and change my definition of creativity to include things that don’t involve making things. You can read my conclusions and see some examples of when I have experimented with more physical creativity here.
As I was looking back over some of the content, I’d written in earlier months I realised that I hadn’t written the second half of my blog about laughter. You can read the original blog about Existence being easier when you let the laughter back in here. For part two of the blog click here.
Another November milestone
November also saw the 6th issue of The Childless Not By Choice Magazine being published. Andrew and I can hardly believe that the magazine is a year old. So much has happened during the last year. Twelve months ago, I was still looking for a solution to my childFREE or childLESS dilemma. I’ve now found that solution in CANBACE and have shared it with other people. Other people have started to feel the benefit of CANBACE. To reflect the changes that we have felt in our lives Andrew and I have decided to re-brand the magazine FROM the next issue onwards. You can read more about this decision here.
What does December have in store?
It’s going to be a fairly quite December in terms of the blog. Andrew’s helping out by writing at least two blogs which will give me a little bit of breathing space again. In addition to the blogs we’ve got a lot of work going on in the background. Top priority is the first issue of the rebranded magazine which is due to be published on 14th January. This issue has a fairly quick turnaround because of the Christmas break: the same amount of work has to be squeezed into less time. However, over the last couple of months we’ve been making changes to our back-office processes into terms of the magazine production. Hopefully we’ll be reaping the reward of those changes over the coming month.
There’s also going to be lots of other planning happening in the background. We’re about to start our first complete year of Canbacing which is hugely exciting. A New Year can be full of potential and we want to ensure that 2019 is the best year possible, not only for us. Changes are afoot that we hope will help you have a great year too.
Be kind to yourself …
In CANBACE friendship!
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