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Hi everyone,

We made it back from the class trip last night. Yosemite was beautiful and

the weather couldn't have been better. It was a bit logistically challenged

because of the rock slide last month, and we had to be bussed into the

valley, but we made it.

Joei did wonderful!!! She was in another hiking group during the day and

with me in my cabin with 3 other girls in the evening. Every once in a

while our hiking groups would walk near each other and I would catch a

glimpse of her. This was the most relaxed I had seen her since the OCD

started in July. She didn't even hang on me (or with me) at night time, she

was happy just to be with everyone else. It was truly beautiful to see.

She had some thoughts Thursday evening after one of the girls told her that

her stomach ache might be pin worm (good grief! Lol ) and climbed into bed

with me but they subsided quickly and she went to sleep. I was actually

sick on Monday and hung back, and her best buddy was sick Thursday/Friday -

she obsessed very slightly on that and did very well on changing her

thinking. I was so proud of her.

I'm knocking on wood here as I say... I think the Zoloft might be working.

It was a good week for me as well. I got to have some time in beautiful

nature, challenge myself a bit physically (ok. a LOT) and get out of my own

head. I did some journaling and some of my AA step work and was able to

make some clear decisions on where life needs to go. I will be quitting my

job next week. Gulp. This is huge for me, I've been going back and forth on

this for a year. I'm a bit scared, but excited to see where things go. It is

time to distress life a bit.

It's nice to be home. It's really nice to be away from allllllllllllllllll

those kids to! Haha

Welcome to anyone new to the list this week!

~~Kathy

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Courage is not living without fear.

Courage is being scared to death and doing the right thing anyway.

-Chae