Your sanctuary...

[JaymesBlond007]

When it's that time in your life, (again), that you feel like you're not really going anywhere, and you need to get away to regroup, where is your favorite sanctuary. Where do you go to think, relax, breath, cry, scream?

Is it physically somewhere else, or maybe just somewhere in your mind?

 

[Debbie]

I take a walk, by myself. Venting as I go. *mutter, mumble damn foul language*

Sitting at the beach listening to the waves lapping at the shore or a small waterfall relaxes me also.

Stroking my cat is great therapy too.

Or sit down and writing furiously till whatever is bugging me is gone. When finished I destroy what I have written and carry on.

Peace and serenity restored.

 

[JaymesBlond007]

Originally posted by debbiexxx
Or sit down and writing furiously till whatever is bugging me is gone. When finished I destroy what I have written and carry on.

I've also heard it is good to bury what you write, as in a funeral. Bury it, say your farewell's, and move on wiith your life.

...just thought you might like to know....

 

[juicylips]

I post. post. post.

I also pm SummerRose and rant like hell.

Cassidy

 

[mig]

I wander through the woods,find where the birds are
nesting this year.

later in the year I collect acorns and beech masts.

Yes I have been known to set up tables for the Sqs.

The main point is that it's just me,alone,except for the wildlife.

 

[Debbie]

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I've also heard it is good to bury what you write, as in a funeral. Bury it, say your farewell's, and move on wiith your life.

...just thought you might like to know.... [/B]

Thanks. I usually rip it up and burn it or rip it up and scatter it into the sea.

It has been really helpful; after years of physical/emotional abuse from my first husband. Watching all that crap float out to sea was a great weight off me.

"Bury it, say your farewell's, and move on wiith your life."

I like that. So true.

 

[Valdimer]

My place would have to be my home....when everyone is asleep. No one bothers me...no one yells or screams at me for doing things wrong, I have the house to myself...and my thoughts.

 

[JaymesBlond007]

Mine is right at home as well....

I'm the master there. Nobody's there to tell me what to do. I'ts quiet, I can think without interruption, I play whatever music I wish, cook whatever meal I wish, my only responibility is my dog, and she loves me no matter what.

Can't beat that with a stick!

I usually take a nice, long, hot shower with some good "ranting" music blaring in the background, clean the house, and take a long run with Mollie.

After that, I'm usually good for another whole....hour and a half!

 

[April]

When I get like that, I hide. Usually in the computer room. Surf the net, or play a game. Anything to pass the time, and keep me from thinking about my problems. But if it's in the spring, when I get really restless, who knows what I'll do. The same thing doesn't work every time.

 

[SilverVeil]

My bed.
With a book or two.

 

[riff]

It's somewhere inside of me, but getting the hell out of town sure helps.

I have to get very quiet to be able to listen to what my soul is telling me. Often the moments when I need to hear what she is telling the most are the times when my mind is very noisy and I cannot make him shut up to hear what she has to say.

Trips out of town distract the mind so the soul can speak. Change of surroundings.

There are times however when this is not necessary- like being wacked on the head. In which case, I am somewhere on the floor either sitting or on my knees with my faced pressed to the carpet.

 

[Calamity Jane]

I get on my horse and head into the woods. Going as fast or as slow as she wants to go, just going with her.

Get out with the dogs and play until we're lying in a big exhausted heap.

If by some freak chance, I'm home alone... put on the Rollins, lie on the floor and scream along with his lyrics.

Wrap myself in my cloak and go walking at night. Listening to the coyotes and cougars, the night birds, the wind through the trees...

 

[teresafannin]

I go for a long drive. Turn up the radio really loud, turn off the cel phone and disappear for a few hours.

 

[seXieleXie]

when i was in s.f. it was the beach. sit and watch the fog roll in, the waves crash, the people pass. it never changes. that's a good feeling, to know that some things are timeless. i need to remember that the world keeps turning, even when i'm hurting.

here at school i don't have a physical place that is my sanctuary, it's more like a mental place that i pull back to. either that or i go to sleep

 

[Rubyfruit]

Re: Mine is right at home as well....

I'm the master there. Nobody's there to tell me what to do. I'ts quiet, I can think without interruption, I play whatever music I wish, cook whatever meal I wish, my only responibility is my dog, and she loves me no matter what.

Can't beat that with a stick!

I usually take a nice, long, hot shower with some good "ranting" music blaring in the background, clean the house, and take a long run with Mollie.

After that, I'm usually good for another whole....hour and a half!

I married at age 32, so I had many years of independence and I loved it. There is nothing like living alone and having the entire place to yourself.

Now, I have 3, sometimes 4, kids and a husband in the house with me. I can't go to the bathroom without 3 kids and a dog following me in. I even shower with my girls in the morning.

So, for me, it's the bathtub at night. I lock the door, turn on the fireplace, put in soothing bubbles and oils and soak for an hour while reading a good book. It is definitely my sanctuary.

 

[Calamity Jane]

Re: Re: Mine is right at home as well....

I can't go to the bathroom without 3 kids and a dog following me in.

Did you ever in your life think that peeing alone would be a treat Rubes?

 

[Rubyfruit]

LOL, nope, I didn't girlie.

 

[Calamity Jane]

**bump** cuz I like this thread

 

[Moridin187]

I've got a trailer in the cultural wastelands of New Hampshire.. When things get absolutely mind-blowingly crazy in my life I tell everyone I'm leaving and go up there for the weekend. I scream, I cry, I listen to music, I do skyclad meditation rituals.. All trying to find peace

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

 

[roxie]

Sometimes, I just take a long hot shower, lock myself in there, give myself a complete beauty treatment, and just relax , or if I need to really think a problem thru, I'm in the car and head down all the deserted roads around here, I intentionally try to get lost, literally. It's never happened, but I haven't given up hope yet!

 

[T.H. Oughts]

I turn up the music and escape into that...

If I have a few hours I head out onto the water or into the bush.....