I am a single woman in her 40's, restarting life again.
Last year I experienced severe burnout, following a lot of issues. So when I say restarting life again, I mean from scratch. I currently am unemployed and looking, live alone, and don't have many connections to my local area, bar 1 relative. I used to manage a 40 hour a week career in the early years, working 4 days, plus a normal social life, I used to go to meetups in my previous town - I have moved across the country.
I explained it like, I used to have a full pizza and now I have the tiny sliver left over at the end of the meal.
The duty team, suggested a befriending scheme, as I currently feel like the new girl who joined mid year during year 9, and has no idea about anything. I have just spoken to someone and they suggested that this befriending service could help me access things in the community and maybe I could make a list of what I like to do, or what I might like to do.
But I have no clue; I used to like to go out for brunch, go see an exhibition, go to the theatre and cinema, I like swimming, exploring new towns, just before my breakdown I travelled Australia solo for a month. I keep meaning to go to an exercise class.
So what hobbies do you guys have or want to try?
If you went out for a couple of hours in your local community where would it be?
What type of activities might I be able to do alone, or with the help initially from another unknown adult. Or has anyone benefitted/used befriending?