Jen Osborn

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Take what you need. Patient with myself freedom to be me boundaries connection in a piece mid time true joy pink background with envelopes to open picture by the HH creative

Take what you need…

🧡🧡🧡

#patience #freedom #connection #joy #boundaries #MeTime #peace

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If it was on a scrap of paper hidden in a trunk, how on earth can we know if that's his final guess?? I love QI, and trust you as a source of information so I'm hoping there's due diligence here 😊

This is very true and timely!

Oh no! Hope you got home ok my friend

A lot of things suck in this lifetime, but I remember when the thought of this was incomprehensible. This is beautiful.

We’re cancelling the guilty part of guilty pleasures. Wanna read romance books and drink cheap wine? Valid. Watch the trashiest reality show and scroll through Amazon? I support this. Listen to the same early 2000s pop song a thousand times in a row? Why stop there? Find that joy and SQUEEZE.

Pastors are not therapists.

Pastors need therapists.

Pastors can provide encouragement, empathy, spiritual guidance and much more, but we cannot provide therapy.

Just like we shouldn't pretend to be medical doctors, we shouldn't pretend to be mental health professionals.

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I'm SO CHUFFED with this set, I found it on eBay from a home just a 15min drive away, for a TENNER!! Definitely one of today's #3GoodThings
Also, doing college applications with my youngest and a good dinner conversation with both boys!

How was your day my friend?

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. Picture of three candles smiling side-by-side on a pink background.

“Be an encourager. The world has plenty of critics already.” 🧡

#encouragement #kindness #support

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We’ve got you. 🧡

#toughtimes #belief #kindness

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#3GoodThings

1. Sunshine
2. Washing dried outside
3. A cuppa with my Dad

It hasn't been a great day but there's always something to be grateful for!

Metro review of Funny Girl – close-up on pullout quote, which reads: Sheridan Smith’s Fanny brims with self-belief

Happy ninth anniversary of the opening night of Funny Girl at the Menier Chocolate Factory in south London, a production which gave rise to one of the best pull quotes ever seen by human eyes

Why Speak Now? On two separate occasions when I was disclosing to the relevant authorities the abusive behaviour of my mother, I was asked the following question. ‘Why are you doing this now?’ It was …

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The timing of the victim speaking up is primacy.
It should never be questioned
#domesticabuse #disclosure

Hey… it’s ok if… 🧡 xx

#kindness #BeGentle

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#3GoodThings

1. Heating on this morning for the first time
2. Found a preloved casserole dish on eBay - very excited about this!
3. Started watching The Last of Us with my beloved

How was your Sunday?

It’s 1st of December. Mull everything. Mull the wine, mull the cider, mull your tea, mull the tap water, mull the cat, mull the carpet, mull the chairs. Mull it all! Get your hair cut in a mullet. Mull the Kintyre. Mull the halls with boughs of holly. Get everything mulled. FULL MULL AHEAD!

#3GoodThings

1. New phone (early Christmas present from my hubby)
2. Monthly food shop done
3. Chilli for dinner

As a Scot by birth, I concur!

Today is new phone day - Christmas arrives early 🎄😆

A gold star for being a really lovely human. Bright yellow star with a rainbow. Picture by Stacie Swift.

For all the amazing #nurses, #midwives, #healthcare thankyou for being so lovely!

@kathevans2.bsky.social @sheenabyrom.bsky.social @fwmaternity.bsky.social @karenellab.bsky.social @racheln76.bsky.social @midwifekookie.bsky.social @nurseninapa.bsky.social #kindness #passiton (image Stacie Swift)

Be a Rendo in someone else’s cloud. Maya Angelo. Picture of a rainbow on a white background.

Kindness to others is like a gentle beam of sunshine - it brightens the moment and leaves behind a hint of a rainbow for someone else to carry forward.

Be the rainbow. 🌈🧡

#kindness #positivity

#3GoodThings

1. Despite a very disrupted journey with 4 trains, mostly either standing or seats facing backwards, and being on the edge of a panic attack for much of it, I was only 30mins later than scheduled.
2. A hug with my youngest
3. A fire in the wood burner

can’t stop thinking about this Mary Oliver poem 🥹

One of mine is Wintering by Katherine May but also Matt Haig's Reasons to Stay Alive... Both having an impact at a crucial time (can't find them to photograph - sorry!)

Witch Podcast · BBC Radio 4 · The witch has held a place firmly in our imagination for centuries - from whispered warnings in folklore to pop-culture driven heights. But what does it mean to be a witch now?...

open.spotify.com/show/5G8G4pB... listening to this podcast on the train home today has been a lifeline and really fascinating

You're welcome, my understanding of reading familiar stories was really impacted by it & I'm very happy to recommend 😄

Here's #3GoodThings for your Thursday...

* Charity shop run - done
* Camper stuff all vacuum packed & put into loft - done
* Jamie Oliver's Sausage & Mash pie for dinner - done!

Travelling home tomorrow. I will miss my lovely friend & her family but I am so looking forward to seeing my own family!

Those Who Wait is a fantastic book, Tanya brings a fresh perspective to well-known stories... It is a breath of fresh air for those who struggle with disappointment, doubt & delay!