claireauriga

I spent most of the last week floating in or on Coniston in the Lake District. Our family rule has always been that you don't go into water without your life jacket on. With the life jacket, I can float limp, head above water, for as long as I need to. It honestly makes being in the water much more fun as you can rest whenever you need to and play about more securely.

What's the worst that could happen if I handle some sort of fungus found in a typical British woodland? I'm guessing the most dangerous thing would be if I handled a fungus then ate something with my hands ... but how bad could it be?

It's all about balance of risk, isn't it? There's a risk of not having a gun available in a personal defence situation, and there's a risk of having a gun available to a person in crisis, a child, or someone mucking around.

Personally I'd heavily favour avoiding the latter risk as I believe it's much, much more likely to happen and have a bigger impact on the consequences of the situation. You've chosen the other side of the balance as preferable.

Do any of your capes contain safety mechanisms like tear-off collars to reduce supeheroing accidents?

With my therapist we realised we needed to explicitly avoid setting goals for one issue, because that threw me back into a mindset that had been very unhelpful in the past. Instead we 'explore' and she makes sure that I am guided by what is intriguing and interesting me rather than what I think I ought to be doing. We're trying to rebuild my relationship to the issue from the ground up, as something I can engage with in a positive way.

I've always thought of myself as a task-oriented person, so it was a real breakthrough when she suggested this way of working.