Hey Everyone!

I haven't been around much lately and I just wanted to let you all know that I'm taking a break from posting for a while. I'll be turning off my email notifications but will probably still check in from time to time. I don't know how long I'll be gone, but I really need to focus on things at home and in therapy for a while. I'm feeling a very strong need to cut back in a lot of areas and get some of my shit together before school starts in August.

I'll be working hard and thinking of everyone here often. I've met so many wonderful people and hope that I have contributed here as much as I have been helped. Thank you to everyone who has supported me, challenged me, encouraged me and joked with me. I truly love this place- and will be back- but I just need to straighten out some things away from the boards.

I will miss you guys and will think of you often. I pray we all have the strength to keep working and fighting for the peace and healthiness we deserve.

In the words of Relient K:
"Let it all out
get it all out
rip it out remove it
don't be alarmed
when the wound begins to bleed

cause we're so scared to find out
what this life's all about
so scared we're going to lose it
not knowing all along
that's exactly what we need
...
If the burden seems too much to bear
Remember
the end will justify the pain it took to get us there

and I'll let it be known
at times I have shown
signs of all my weakness
but somewhere in me
there is strength

and you promise me
that you believe
in time I will defeat this
cause somewhere in me
there is strength"

-CT

P.S.-
Shrinklady, we've never chatted directly here, but I wanted to thank you for providing this place for all of us. You're facilitating healing in so many ways and I hope you understand how much this place has meant and will always mean to me. I'm not leaving for good... just a while... but I will always be grateful to you for what you have helped me find out about myself. Thanks.