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OP: July 20, 2013, 02:19:10 AM
What are your creative outlets? I'm ten months post day and just starting to feel twinges of creativity. Mine is poetry. I was so depressed and so lost in my marriage, I hardly ever wrote.

I would love to know if creativity has come come back to you and what is your thing?
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Re: Creative outlets
#1: July 20, 2013, 02:21:28 AM
Just realised I should have made this into a poll. I don't know how to amend it. Does anyone know?
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#2: July 20, 2013, 02:35:06 AM
Quote from: Sunny on July 20, 2013, 02:21:28 AM
Just realised I should have made this into a poll. I don't know how to amend it. Does anyone know?
What items do you want in the poll?
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#3: July 20, 2013, 02:52:39 AM
I don't think it neccessarily needs to be a poll. I understand feeling pushed down in your marrage though. Its been three years since my BD and I am finally thinking about creative outlets. I do read so much more then I had for the longest time. When I was younger reading almost defined me more than anything else but by the last 5+ years of my marriage I almost never read anything except the occasional magazine or newspaper. Now I'm reading entire books again. In fact I might join a book club!
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#4: September 30, 2013, 10:22:00 AM
Since so many of us are limited in GALing opportunities because of funds or situation, I thought I would start a list of some of the great online learning opportunities that have helped so many of us use this time to enrich our lives and our skill sets.  Some are free, some have a nominal fee either per class or subscription, but all kind of rock. :)  Please add to this!

Coursera (free; on a schedule)
https://www.coursera.org/

Large range of topics from major universities around the world.

Lynda.com (subscription - but follow them on Facebook and watch for free classes a few times a month; on demand)
http://www.lynda.com/

Creative, business, and tech courses from professionals. 

Lumosity (free with limits, subscription for unlimited use; on demand)
http://www.lumosity.com

These are simple on-line games that aid with brain plasticity.  I started doing these early on to keep my mind healthy.

TED-ED (free; on demand)
http://ed.ted.com/

An array of topics.  Would also recommend watching TED talks for inspiration.

FinerMinds (free; on demand)
http://www.finerminds.com/

Inspiration and instruction on spiritual and consciousness topics.

Skillshare (fee per class; on demand participation once content is available)
http://www.skillshare.com/classes

Creative, business, and tech courses, from some big names!  Pricing ranges from very low per course. 

Open Culture (free; on demand and searches for things in your area)
http://www.openculture.com/

Extremely comprehensive list of learning resources for fun, certificates, and includes K-12 learners too for doing things with the kids.  Lots of topics, and free textbooks, ebooks, and audiobooks resources.

previous thread: http://mlcforum.theherosspouse.com/index.php?topic=69.0
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#5: September 30, 2013, 10:24:10 AM
Big thanks to Anjae and kikki for turning me on to several of these!  They have absolutely made a huge difference with self-focus for me - and helped me in my career as well as revisit old creative projects! 
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#6: September 30, 2013, 11:09:51 AM
I love Luminosity...we need to get some of these things posted permanently..this one.. the sleep one...maybe a food one..an exercise one...SERIOUSLY!!

 We need to get some SELF CARE things posted separately.

 That's what all of this comes down to. SELF CARE! Emotional, mental, physical ,spiritual, holistic, whatever you want to call it.
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Don't ask why someone is still hurting you; ask why you keep letting them.What you allow continues.

At some point you have to get sick of going through the same sh!t.

Women are NOT rehabilitation centers for badly raised men. It is not your job to fix ,parent, raise or change him.
You want a partner not a project.
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#7: September 30, 2013, 11:50:13 AM
Agreed!!!!  There's some great fitness and dance workouts posted for free on YouTube - time to get those organized from my bookmarks too! :)  I think we get started with this for our survival, but once we settle in it can become amazing enhancements to our new lifestyle - and it starts to take our minds away from this being a bad thing that we are a victim of to where it becomes an opportunity for growth. 

An upside is this doesn't matter whether we're standers or not - none of these things will take away from a life with a new person or a 'renewed' person - but will serve to make you more whole and happy. :) 
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#8: September 30, 2013, 03:31:09 PM
That's RIGHT! Whether whatever happens... happens it really helps everybody with a HEALTHY direction for yourself!!!

YOU FELLAS ALSO!!! Actually ESPECIALLY!
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There are two ways of spreading light:
Be the candle; or the mirror that reflects it

Don't ask why someone is still hurting you; ask why you keep letting them.What you allow continues.

At some point you have to get sick of going through the same sh!t.

Women are NOT rehabilitation centers for badly raised men. It is not your job to fix ,parent, raise or change him.
You want a partner not a project.
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Re: GALing for Shut-ins
#9: September 30, 2013, 06:21:04 PM
What an excellent idea, Ready2.  :)

edX
https://www.edx.org/ (mainly Harvard and MIT, free, on a schedule)

Memrise
http://www.memrise.com/ (free, to my knowledge we can go there and do the courses whenever we want, they are more for self training than to gain a certificate like Coursera of edX)

Archive.org
http://archive.org/index.php (free online library with books, films, images, music, documents and many other things).
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