Tell me something amazing you have done

[Poetryinaction]

Our British culture does not allow us to blow our own trumpets. My own mother will never acknowledge she is proud of me. But it has just occurred to me that there are some things I have done which are amazing. So I want to give you the chance to tell us what you have done.
Have you left an abusive relationship?
Started a business?
Moved abroad?
Brought up a child whilst young yourself?
I'd love to hear your achievements.

I divorced my emotionally abusive ex who used to give me the silent treatment for weeks on end and with whom I couldn’t talk about anything. It took me years to get up enough courage but in the end I did it - with help from my family.

Two years after ex moved out I have started to get to a more self-accepting place.

The fact that I never have to put up with the silent treatment or walking on eggshells again sometimes occurs to me and it’s a great feeling.

What have you done, OP?! We want to know!

I completed a Master’s degree in History

Thank you for sharing, and well done!
I turned up in Spain aged 20 knowing no one and got myself a place to live and a job.

Part from having my children.

Stopped dying by having a organ transplant. I'm very lucky to be here now.

Anyone else?

I did a degree PT whilst working . Started when DS1 was 6mo, finished 3 years later having had another baby and moved house in the meantime.

Looking back I have no idea what possessed me or how I did it but mine and my DCs' lives would be far poorer if I hadn't.

I turned up in Spain aged 20 knowing no one and got myself a place to live and a job

On a newspaper, perhaps?

Was brought up in poverty with addicted and abusive parent which has caused CPTSD. Fell pregnant at 19 and was left by the dad.

Fast forward 7 years and I now have a beautiful natured daughter and a newborn son with my amazing supportive partner who knows all my past.

Im also now in very well paid employment with opportunity to keep climbing the ladder, and am nc with toxic family.

For me it was having our DD. We went through six miscarriages before we had her a case of 7th time lucky. I’m so pleased we didn’t give up trying.

Found the strength to leave a job where I was horribly bullied despite the fear of being unemployed. The alternative was suicide.

I had to work so hard to get my.mental health back, depression, anxiety and PTSD diagnosed. I am so much better than I was even before the bullying. I have secured new jobs and have had very good feedback about my performance.

@Poetryinaction

Thank you for sharing, and well done! I turned up in Spain aged 20 knowing no one and got myself a place to live and a job.

I don't want to sound unkind but your OP said that you've done some amazing things. While going to Spain age 20 and getting a job & somewhere to live sounds like a great adventure, I'm not sure I would count that as amazing? 🤔

Fulfilled a lifelong dream and got to perform on stage a couple of years ago in a production of "Oliver"...at the tender age of 39!

I don't want to sound unkind

And yet you did.

I couldn't have moved countries knowing no one to started a life. Not at 20 - not now!

I left two abusive husbands. During my second marriage I went to university and got a good degree.

I've done the Freedom Programme and I'm in a happy relationship.

I had a baby at 16 with no family support and was in a toxic relationship. I’ve managed to get myself out of it and make me and my 2 kids a home and a happy life. It doesn’t sound like much but it’s been really hard at times but I’m so proud of myself and my kids

Learnt to drive buses and artic lorries whilst having small children ?! Does that count?

I’m amazed I also used to cut the quarter acre grass I had at an old house with a baby strapped to my chest !

I've got a PhD and I can, in fact, do rocket science. I did my PhD while I was trying not to die of Crohn's disease, which is now much more under control!

Alongside my day job, I am also a union rep and I often save people's jobs, help them win positive outcomes in grievances and complaints and constantly bargain and negotiate for better pay and working conditions.

Had my first child age 15 left school with nothing have worked since age 15 now married with 4 children have 3 diplomas 2 degrees and manage a 64 bedded care home 🏠

These are amazing. Thank you for sharing. My job was not on a newspaper, that would have been amazing in a foreign language at 20! It was in a nursery school.
I'm sorry if you don't think it's amazing, but it is the hardest thing I've ever done. It was pre smart phones and facebook. To phone my parents I had to go to a locutorio, a shop of phone booths, and I was very lonely.

Similar to @BobbinThreadbare123 Finished my PhD whilst being diagnosed with two life limiting illnesses. Grateful to intensive care staff for proof reading chapter four!

These are very inspiring stories.

Mine is.....I experienced high risk child abuse, sought help, started working to help other survivors of trauma....and then wrote and published my own self help book fir survivors of child abuse. I am very proud to have a book on my bookshelf that I wrote.

I think going to a foreign country by yourself is amazing - I wouldn’t have been brave enough.
I can’t think of anything amazing I have done - but I got through my cancer treatment only for my husband to die of a heart attack and I have great family and friends So just being content is pretty amazing xx

I think you are amazing for surviving all.of that. Each one of you needs to remember you have done amazing things. It's very easy to be hard on ourselves.