Staying Sane Through Eviction Part 1

Laurene talks about being evicted and homeless with 2 cats and PTSD due to COVID and a very difficult lonely period without work. To be evicted without a family or anyone to hold her hand except spirit and the occasional phone call from someone who cares.

Transcript

Hey guys,

Welcome to podcast number two.

Stay sane in this crazy world.

My name is Lauren Hope Glory.

I run Moving On TV,

Mental health,

And I thought I will come on here and do a bit of a talk about how I'm staying sane regardless of eviction,

Stress,

Homelessness,

Loneliness,

The last two years unbearable loneliness.

And the fact that in the area where I live,

No one will rent to me because I have two beautiful little cats.

I'm not earning anything because of COVID and I lost my job and who can earn anything anymore.

And,

And also,

The council do not put you in temporary accommodations with your pets.

So I've had Peace and Ellie,

My little cats for 19 years nearly in March,

They're going to be 19 years old.

They're twins.

Peace came to me literally more or less when he was born and started to live with me and my ex-husband and Ellie,

We got her three years later,

Um,

After our older cat died.

So she came to live with us 16 years ago and we're a family and you do not separate me from my cats.

The stress I'm going through is unbearable.

I've just managed to find somewhere,

But my head is messing around with that saying it's not going to work out even though I've paid.

Um,

The prices I've been charged in the town I live High Wycombe are preposterous and abusive and shouldn't be allowed.

Um,

And it's 1,

500 a month to stay in a little two star bed and breakfast here because I have cats,

Which is disgusting.

When you go out towards Buckinghamshire about an hour,

Um,

On Airbnb,

Um,

You might be able to find something for 400,

500 pounds a month,

A room and a house.

And so that's what I hopefully I'm going to be moving to next week.

But I want to talk to you about the stress,

The unbearable stress of going through this on my own more or less without anybody.

Um,

I'm separated from a husband.

Um,

I've lost all my family.

If anybody knows anything about me when my father was euthanized in 2016,

My whole family cut me off,

Took his home and ignored my existence after that.

Um,

And over the last few years I have been in a wheelchair for four months because of the stress.

And then because of covert,

I lost my job.

I lost the workshops I was doing with people who are mental health issues and depression.

Um,

I wrote a whole musical called encounters.

I had cast it nearly,

But then COVID hit,

They closed down all my workshops and I lost my job with the elderly because I was starting to tell people what the elderly are eating in these zones,

Which is total crap full of sugar and a Sparta.

They never get a salad.

They never get a healthy meal.

All they get is biscuits and rubbish and they pay a thousand pounds a month or is it a week?

A thousand pounds.

I'm not sure.

I think it's a thousand pounds a week.

A thousand pounds a week.

Yeah.

To live in these greedy residential homes.

The name of the one I worked in was Berry Lodge in Penn.

And,

Um,

I just think it's disgusting,

Absolutely disgusting the amount of money they took from those poor people.

And when I said that,

I got sacked on the spot.

I'm very outspoken.

I saved the truth because I can't work in a place like that in any way.

I can't work with the elderly because I don't mask,

I don't PCR and I don't jab.

So nobody will employ me anymore.

So I can't have a job basically.

Anyway,

The stress that I'm experiencing at the moment,

Excuse me,

Is unbearable,

Absolutely unbearable.

I'm 64 years of age and I was put up for a house in High Wycombe.

I bid on a bungalow and they said I got it.

But then they sent me a letter to say,

You've been shortlisted.

Now whether they'll take me with the cats or not is debatable because a lot of places,

As I say,

Even the council permanent housing will not take animals.

So I'm praying to God they will and then we'll have a home to live in.

The hopefully we'll never be evicted again.

But the stress of all of this is unbearable.

Um,

I don't have one person to go out and have a cup of tea with or to sit with or to relax with because everyone abandoned me.

And I mean everyone,

Every single person that came into my life as abandoned me and I broke up my marriage for reasons I can't say on here,

But I choose not to be with this person as they are living in a four bedroom house with their mother,

A four bedroom house and their wife for 26,

27 years,

Even though we're separated,

Is being evicted because no one will take her animals.

So I don't need to say more about that.

I don't understand it.

Obviously this person's got no empathy.

Um,

And so I choose not to be with them anymore.

Um,

So it's just me and the 12 steps.

So this is how I'm staying sane.

One of the most amazing things that happened,

Uh,

Because of COVID the plan demic was outreach.

Now if you have an addiction like codependency,

Drink,

Drugs,

Love,

Addiction,

Sex and love addiction,

Anything,

You can go on outreach.

You put a message on there and you say outreach,

Please.

You get five minutes,

Which is usually the maximum where you share and you hand it over.

It's like the second step of the 12 steps came to believe a power greater than myself can restore me to sanity.

And then the third step,

Make a conscious decision to hand everything over to God as I perceive God.

Now God could be a box where you put everything or your problems.

God could be a tree.

In my case,

It's nature.

You and in Valley in,

Um,

Highway Wicca is my God and my power,

Higher power,

And that's how it works to me.

So that's one of the things I do.

I do outreach at least once a day and I support a lot of other people as well.

So we both share and that way we give each other a chance to feedback,

But we never give advice.

We only validate what we heard.

We never give advice and that's why it works because we codependency,

You're going to try and fix everyone.

And so there's no point going on a codependency outreach if you're going to fix that person.

That's ridiculous.

Anyway,

So that's the first thing.

Outreach of the 12 steps.

The next thing I do is I link up with the angels,

The seekers trust angels in Kent and they put you on a harmony prayer circle and you pray with them.

You link up with them.

Um,

It's non denominational.

You do use the word Jesus,

But as a very high soul,

High spirit.

And I do that.

I also use the insight timer and meditate very short little meditation sometimes,

But most of all,

I'd say the best thing that keeps me sane is nature is getting out into nature,

Breathing fresh air and halt.

Don't get too hungry,

Too angry,

Too lonely or too tired.

So make sure you eat to keep your blood pressure going.

Make sure you drink water.

If you get angry,

Then do primal screaming.

I have an old fridge that I bash the life out of.

So that's because I have an old fridge that I bash the life out of.

That's primal screaming,

Anger and don't get too lonely is difficult,

But then you've got outreach so you can contact outreach or you can also contact the Samaritans if you're in the UK.

116-123 they will talk to you.

They're very,

Very kind and loving and that can help as well.

If you can get therapy,

If you can afford it.

I wouldn't hold my breath and go and see a doctor because you never hear anything back.

Um,

T is don't get too tired.

Make sure you go to bed,

Get lots of rest and watch comedies.

Guys watch things that really keep your mind calm.

That don't watch,

You know,

Gory,

Awful stuff.

If you've got creative brain like me,

Watch comedy like Mrs Maisel,

Which is absolutely brilliant and hilarious on the Amazon Prime,

Things like that.

And,

Um,

There's a couple of nice series on Netflix like,

Um,

Oh,

Sweet magnolias.

If you're a woman,

Um,

I don't know if you're a guy.

Bridgerton was pretty good.

Um,

But that's finished now.

Anyway,

That's it for today.

Stay sane.

I've done 145 stay sane.

They're all on my Instagram moving on TV,

Mental health.

You can also contact me and moving on TV one at gmail.

Com if you want me to interview you or you want to interview me on the speaker,

A writer,

A singer,

A songwriter.

I'm sending my music everywhere.

You can actually use my music in Instagram if you put in my name,

Lauren Hope Glory.

My all my songs will come up and you can use my songs now on your Instagram.

Take care.

Lots of love.

Bringing the hope and glory back into our lives.

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Thank you.

Bye bye.