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	<title>Comments on: A Smile on My Face</title>
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		<title>By: Sue</title>
		<link>http://www.teafriendsandchocolate.com/sue/2007/04/05/a-smile-on-my-face/#comment-173</link>
		<dc:creator>Sue</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 07:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks Anne for your very thoughtful words and advice. 

It's funny too because I absolutely adore Spring, it's my favourite time of the year.  

So maybe I need to get out in to the garden and be at one with nature and forget the tip that has become our home!

Thanks also for the vitamin B hint, I'll check that out.

Hugs gratefully accepted, you are lovely.

Sue xx

ps  Perhaps I'm trying to be too much like that other 70's icon, Lindsay Wagner aka The Bionic Woman!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks Anne for your very thoughtful words and advice. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s funny too because I absolutely adore Spring, it&#8217;s my favourite time of the year.  </p>
<p>So maybe I need to get out in to the garden and be at one with nature and forget the tip that has become our home!</p>
<p>Thanks also for the vitamin B hint, I&#8217;ll check that out.</p>
<p>Hugs gratefully accepted, you are lovely.</p>
<p>Sue xx</p>
<p>ps  Perhaps I&#8217;m trying to be too much like that other 70&#8217;s icon, Lindsay Wagner aka The Bionic Woman!</p>
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		<title>By: Anne Brooke</title>
		<link>http://www.teafriendsandchocolate.com/sue/2007/04/05/a-smile-on-my-face/#comment-172</link>
		<dc:creator>Anne Brooke</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 07:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Huge hugs, Sue - as I know how this feels. I think you might have to give yourself "permission" to feel these sorts of things without obsessing it. Sometimes we just need/want to be "down" and it's okay. You've also been doing a hell of a lot lately and maybe your body simply needs a break and this is its way of getting it. If your instincts are saying: be at home, then trust them.

Try and do at least one thing per day that you really want to do (rather than have to do) - could be just sitting in the garden, watching TV or reading a book. Doesn't have to be complex.

Also Vitamin B complexes can be useful and can be bought over the counter if you feel you need more energy or are lacking something. And Holland &#38; Barrett staff are good with suggesting things too. In this respect, sometimes feeling down or stressed can bring on a mini menstrual crisis. You could however ask for the "menopause test" at the doctors - they have quite accurate ways of pinpointing exactly where you are hormonally. And at least it might cancel something out.

All that said, it has struck me recently that a lot of my friends are feeling like this (and me included) - even people I would normally say are emotionally upbeat by nature - it may be something to do with the time of year and the change into Spring.

Huge hugs again, and I hope you have a relaxing weekend, together with lots of hugs from Husband.

A
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Huge hugs, Sue - as I know how this feels. I think you might have to give yourself &#8220;permission&#8221; to feel these sorts of things without obsessing it. Sometimes we just need/want to be &#8220;down&#8221; and it&#8217;s okay. You&#8217;ve also been doing a hell of a lot lately and maybe your body simply needs a break and this is its way of getting it. If your instincts are saying: be at home, then trust them.</p>
<p>Try and do at least one thing per day that you really want to do (rather than have to do) - could be just sitting in the garden, watching TV or reading a book. Doesn&#8217;t have to be complex.</p>
<p>Also Vitamin B complexes can be useful and can be bought over the counter if you feel you need more energy or are lacking something. And Holland &amp; Barrett staff are good with suggesting things too. In this respect, sometimes feeling down or stressed can bring on a mini menstrual crisis. You could however ask for the &#8220;menopause test&#8221; at the doctors - they have quite accurate ways of pinpointing exactly where you are hormonally. And at least it might cancel something out.</p>
<p>All that said, it has struck me recently that a lot of my friends are feeling like this (and me included) - even people I would normally say are emotionally upbeat by nature - it may be something to do with the time of year and the change into Spring.</p>
<p>Huge hugs again, and I hope you have a relaxing weekend, together with lots of hugs from Husband.</p>
<p>A<br />
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