SparkleDust (original poster new member #86483) posted at 5:33 PM on Monday, August 25th, 2025
I met an amazing lady, recently. She is a life coach and does equine therapy, which I haven’t yet done but I am scheduling it. She also does "vision board" sessions. When she asked me about my situation and how I’m handling it, to which my reply was currently hoping for terminal cancer, she suggested I make myself a vision board. Not the kind one would make for setting goals but rather one that lets my inner me decide what I need.
I’ve been through loads of magazines and cut out pictures that make me feel something positive, honestly they were few and far between because pretty much everything just makes me feel awful these days, even things I loved, but I’ve managed to fill a page with these pictures and it does make me smile. My therapist told me to put "I MATTER" across it, which I did after I found some very cute gold letters in my daughter’s box of craft stuff". The pictures are random and I feel like they don’t really signify much but my life coach says they are my inner "gut feel" telling me what I need and where I’m headed. At the very least, it does make me smile when I look at it.
Just thought someone out there feeling lost may like to try this, too.
SparkleDust
Just trying to survive day by day.
leafields ( Guide #63517) posted at 7:16 PM on Monday, August 25th, 2025
That's a very helpful suggestion. I didn't do a vision board, but I did get some bracelets that had sayings like I Am Enough, etc. that I would wear as reminders.
BW M 34years, Dday 1: March 2018, Dday 2: August 2019, D final 2/25/21
Chaos ( member #61031) posted at 11:25 PM on Monday, August 25th, 2025
I got myself a beautiful [albeit cheap] bracelet that is engraved on the inside "KEEP FUCKING GOING"
I also got myself a lot of beautiful sparkly undies.
I guess that makes me my own walking vision board
BS-me/WH-4.5yrLTA Married 2+ decades-2 adult children. Multiple DDays w/same LAP until I told OBS 2018- Cease & Desist sent spring 2021 "Hello–My name is Chaos–You f***ed my husband-Prepare to Die!"