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A place to discuss how to practice permaculture with different mental, physical and emotional abilities

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being an introvert in community

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Daily gratitude

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Gifts for challenged people

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Check in - are you okay?

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Electrosensitivity - Can Earth-Sheltered and/or Earthen-Walled Structures Help Us?

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Permaculture and Autism, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and Asperger's

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How to time growing a family and starting a homestead?

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How do you Have Both a Homestead and a Chronic Illness?

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Stress, Anxiety, Grief, and Its Manifestations

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Aging in place with permaculture

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I'm an ENTJ, what are you?

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How do you feel about prepping/ survivalist culture?

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Permaculture Victories: tell your stories

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Bucket stools are useful!

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Signs that you are a permie with health issues

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Sensitive to barometric pressure? What are your symptoms?

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EMF/WIFI sensitivity in an increasingly EMF-filled world

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Where is permaculture for the elderly?

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Electrosensitivity - Can Earth-Sheltered and/or Earthen-Walled Structures Help Us?

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How do you cope with "the munchies"?

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Things that can be done now

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Ahh for the love of dog—Gracie

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Auditory hallucinations, or hearing voices

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How do I turn my wish into reality?

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Having a very hard time with this

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Self-doubt about future plans for land & house

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experiences with melatonin for sleep?

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What are you waiting for?

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Mother of Pearl

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Plugging up the Entry Door

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Is it just the seasons changing or do I need a new adventure?

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Anyone Here Living with an Emotional Support Animal on a Homestead

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A stupid fear getting in my way

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13 Years in USA- The loneliness of Solo Homesteading.

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ALAS my computer has been laid to rest

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Proactive vs Reactive

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Escaping the noise

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Anyone Here Living with an Emotional Support Animal on a Homestead

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Where is permaculture for the elderly?

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Anyone Homestead by themselves, or have a spouse/partner who doesnt help out on the land??

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Surviving this big world with wonky hearing...

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13 Years in USA- The loneliness of Solo Homesteading.

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Check in - are you okay?

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Anyone here practice the principles of Tai Chi?

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free healthcare

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Self-doubt about future plans for land & house

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EMF/WIFI sensitivity in an increasingly EMF-filled world

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Bucket stools are useful!

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Mother of Pearl

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ALAS my computer has been laid to rest

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Neighbors removed chicken fence

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Neighbor's Chickens Tearing up Flower Beds

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Incandescent bulbs... Where art thou?

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STARTING OVER - field biologist

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Trouble finding a Partner? ....you might be an INFJ

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Having a very hard time with this

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Ahh for the love of dog—Gracie

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The future is daunting

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Escaping the noise

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experiences with melatonin for sleep?

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Just getting started is discouraging

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Auditory hallucinations, or hearing voices

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A stupid fear getting in my way

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Unusual purchases you’ve made approaching or in your 40’s…

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Sensitive to barometric pressure? What are your symptoms?

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How do I turn my wish into reality?

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Longing for Belonging

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Where to find f/t rv acreage in CO/OR/WA?

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Is it just the seasons changing or do I need a new adventure?

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A Year of Loss - Learning to Grieve When You Were Never Taught How

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How do you cope with "the munchies"?

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Building Community in the Sonoran Desert (and Beyond)

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What are you waiting for?

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Permaculture Victories: tell your stories

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Plugging up the Entry Door

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Daily gratitude

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Marriage struggles

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Healing Imagination, Healing Attitude

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Volunteers that make you go Hmm!

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Clothes make the man or woman

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Gathering threads for a new “personal challenges” forum

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