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How A New Deck Helped Keep Me Sane
The Ink Witch Tarot 2nd Edition
I confess I had a different blog post planned but two things happened to change it. Firstly, one the tarot decks I backed on Kickstarter last year arrived — The second edition of the Ink Witch Tarot by Eric Maille. I’m not gonna lie, it was pricey, but I fell in love with it and love it even more now it’s here.
Mike
The second thing that happened was a fairly big problem with my husband Mike. He has been off work for several weeks due to a mini breakdown. I believe this breakdown is due to undiagnosed neurodivergence and I’m currently in a battle to find somewhere to get a diagnosis. His company is good in many ways but their sick pay is pretty terrible. I’m freaking out more than a little about bills next month.
As well as these problems with work we then got a horrific bit of news about his family. I can’t specify but it’s a destroys lives sort of thing. Mike isn’t great with processing his emotions in general and combined with his work stuff he’s quite lost.
Normally when Mike is off sick he tries to stay busy. As a bare minimum he keeps the house tidy and tries to go to the gym. For the last four weeks he’s hardly done anything. Most days he doesn’t get up til lunchtime and I’ve still been doing the majority of housework and…
