I'm checking in with the prompts from the Daily Check-in email from Monday, June 10th, 2019:

- I feel...
- I need...
- I forgive...
- I celebrate...

- I feel...hopeful, optimistic and inspired.
- I need...to tap into my self-confidence so that I can continue on this path to self-improvement, self-sufficiency, independence and, in the end, hopefully, a sense of stability when it comes to my mental health.
- I forgive...myself for making excuses that kept me from taking the first step.
- And I'm celebrating progress!

(The back story to my check-in is this: I have a SEVERE case of agoraphobia. I never leave my home and sometimes getting out of bed is extremely hard...My parents do all my shopping for me or I shop online and it was just getting worse and worse...I recently moved (to live with my parents since it was becoming impossible for me to live alone) so I've been having to find new mental health providers and the center I started working with has first off, assigned a "skills development coordinator" who will come to my house and work with me for two hours every single week to develop coping skills, a "crisis kit" and then eventually she will start introducing me, slowly, into social situations and other general situations that are outside of my house to help me overcome my issues. She and I had our first session today. I'm really happy about it.
Secondly, I was assigned a case manager who is going to come over to my home before each of my therapy appointments which my actual licensed counselor to take a walk with me or do some other activity before taking me to and from my counseling appointments. Finally, because my therapist's schedule is so full, I can only see her once every 3 weeks or once a month maybe, and I need to be able to see someone weekly. So my parents, under the advice of my case manager and therapist, etc, have agreed to sign me up for online counseling that will provide me with support on almost a daily basis. So, a lot of good things have happened today.)
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