When Writing Blogs there always is a First one. This is it.

This is my story, my point of view regarding my exposure to Raggy Dolls Peer Support Group.

The exact start for me was a couple of years ago. The group seemed large, compared to Lift Loud for Danny peer drop in, that I had been frequenting in Lowestoft for a while before finding the group that Freyja Thomas set up. Freyja mentioned in an NSFT Recovery College, about the group. And I attended soon after it was established.

The Common Lot host the group at 185 Drayton (Mile Cross in Norwich), a community centre built out of a rather normal shop – I think they say it used to be a bakery. Actually I know they say they think it was a bakery.

I find when I go, I enter 185 like I would a Dojo. Respectfully, and I leave the same way, you live longer when this is achieved. I am terribly clumsy with fingers and thumbs and size 9s. So not only do I enter the Dojo respectfully I do so carefully. Despite this effort (nor much effort really) I am not always successful.

There are many names and faces that are familiar there, and I am pleased they have accepted me, warts and all. Assuming that they have accepted me 🙂

With Freyja’s expert guidance we are “incorporating” the idea to make it easier to fund raise for activities that would benefit our amazingly diverse, and inclusive group.

We are going to have a Chair (Me), Secretary (Freyja I think) and a Treasurer whom shall remain anonymous for now. That is a Nony mouse. I think one or more of the counsellors shall become Trustees. We have a group of counsellors that attend to help us with answers from a trained perspective.

We run a regular Feel Good Fascia Class with someone I introduced to the group. Freyja and other attendees get a lot from this class. As do I. We also do Art classes with a member of The Common Lot. I recently asked if we can do Wabi Sabi that is the Japanese, art of the imperfect. It uses Gold Leaf and I think we might need a substitute material as that might cost the class prohibitively.

I feel elevated to “even” (I try not to go too much higher than this as a rule, it takes too much energy to maintain), after a Raggy6 Session, “even” allows for a bit of freewheeling and my favourite activity of being on the computer.

Raggy Dolls group has gone from strength to strength and has kept me. Some groups do not keep me. I have made friends there, as I did at Lift Loud For Danny which I shall drop in to at some point.

So I shall write more Blogs, and show Freyja how to write them too. You might also hear from some other Raggys..