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So, How Did That Happen?

"Be patient towards all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point… Continue reading So, How Did That Happen?

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Mental health, Working

I Had An Incredibly Positive Experience At The Job Centre. No, Really…

"It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people." ~ Pamela Anderson It would be hard to overstate how worried I was when I arrived at my first meeting with my Job Centre Plus adviser back in December. I expected it to be absolutely horrendous. I mean, I was… Continue reading I Had An Incredibly Positive Experience At The Job Centre. No, Really…

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Return to Work

I've just finished my first day of work since March, and I'm shaking like a leaf. It was okay though. Far more mundane, much less daunting, than I expected. It was only a four hour day. I'm doing a phased return, so I'm working four hour days for the rest of this week, then six… Continue reading Return to Work