Hi SS55, sorry you had a rough start to the day. I can recall another poster in Newcomers - it may have been pigpen or mutatio (or perhaps Caliguy) - having an morning routine.

It involved (something like) a short meditation, a little journaling, some yoga, then make the bed, practice gratitude - and you're good to go.

Now this may sound a lot, but it doesn't take long to do these things:

Do a five minute meditation (maybe find an app that has them?)
Journal about one nice thing that happened yesterday
Write down three things you are grateful for right now
Do a few minutes of yoga stretches.

You may find that 10 or 15 minutes can really impact positively on how you feel. And these are also baby steps towards taking charge of your own life (whatever your H may be doing.) I hope you'll give this a try. These ideas come from Shawn Achor's TED talk on happiness which has helped me a lot.

Hope tomorrow morning is a better one! X

T 13 M 7
Me 48 H 46
SS 15
BD 7.14 PA
D final 5.16 (H filed)

We receive & we lose, and must try to achieve gratitude & embrace with whole hearts whatever of life that remains after the losses - Dubus