IB thank you for your kind words: aaahhh the tough skin. Well, perhaps you 'need' it right now. You are extremely hard on yourself: it takes one to know one. About 4 years ago a friend gave me a soft toy hedgehog, to remind me that while I could be prickly, even hedgehogs could be cuddly. i still keep that hedgehog as a reminder
As you move forward the need for the tough skin will dissolve, and you will be back to soft and gentle but with a steel core!! Right now you are understandably in survival mode.
We are all at stages of our journey, and growing and changing and dealing with very hard things. There are so many people here I would like to have a virtual cup of coffee or glas of wine with, and you are definitely one of them. Get a few of the others together and we could have a party!
