User:Gentle.Huggies.Annie

Hey, Y'all! I'm Gentle.Huggies.Annie!


This is an avatar I created, with a shabby, "middle of the night look," including fuzzy slippers and a cuppa whatever warm I'm drinking, plus a cat. I always live with cats, sometimes preferring them to people, LOL.

Anyway, there were about half a dozen of us on a support website for people with physical conditions and mental illnesses that were dealing with pain for various reasons and often couldn't sleep, but there wasn't a group for insomniacs because it's only a symptom, and the site was set up by conditions and illnesses. It seemed silly to not have a group for people listening to all the noises of the house and feeling our pain more without the usual daytime distractions. And since it's so easy to get in a bad headspace--about pain, about loneliness, about lack of sleep, about money, about flat-out depression, about full-on death wishes--we felt it was actually pretty important.

So, we started an informal group, and named it "The Middle of the Night Gang." It actually had times when it got popular and grew a bit, but it always had that small group, intimate feel. It's kind of petering out as some of the longer-term members have moved on to other things, but I'm grateful it lasted the couple of years it did.

When the group started getting sparser and more clique-y, I still wanted for there to be a place, this time around the clock, for people with physical pain, other physical conditions, mental illnesses, insomnia, or whatever, to go for companionship and information. Fact is, my early history's filled with having been abused, and now the second half I'm disabled with a number of conditions.

So, I got creative again, and started *Compassionate Lighten~ing*. Right now, it's a baby website with a brand new Google+ Community, and now this wiki, as part of it. I want to add some recorded guided meditations, *lots* more info, and a chat app. The name, *"Compassionate Lighten~ing"* (for which, BTW, I'm applying for a MO LLC) came about from some word association, flipping through wiktionary and a thesaurus and wikipedia, and browsing some websites. The idea is feeling compassionately (not judgmentally) wanting to lighten the load of others.

The wiki I create here will contain the information, writings, and tools presented on the website in "wiki" format, rather than blog, etc.

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