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We're busier than ever, but struggling to get the staff we need. Recruiting can be such a distraction. We gave Job Centre Plus a try, and they've really helped us out. Really? Yeah. It was dead easy. We got our own employer advisor, Julie, who helped advertise our jobs, shortlisted candidates for us and letters interview at the Job Centre. We've hired some great people, and Job Centre Plus really took the hassle out of it, And there was no fee.

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There's this specific kind of loneliness that comes from growing up in a dysfunctional family. It's not just

feeling alone. It's feeling like you don't quite fit in anywhere. Like everyone else got the manual

and how to belong and you're just out here winging it, performing your way through connection

and hoping no one notices you don't actually know what you're doing. For most of us, it started at home.

We didn't feel safe being our full selves in our own families maybe

we're the scapegoat the identified patient the one who was too sensitive or too much or somehow always the

problem or maybe our family looked fine from the outside but we still felt like an outsider in our own

home unseen unheard like we were taking up space we didn't quite

deserve. The message we internalized unconsciously or not was, there's something wrong with me.

I don't fit in. That feeling didn't stay in childhood. It followed us into school, into friendships,

into every relationship we've ever had. We either tried desperately to fit in, fawning people pleasing,

shape-shifting into whoever we thought people wanted, or we pulled away entirely and decided,

I'm just not a belonging kind of person. Maybe we had friends, maybe even look social, but underneath

it all, we felt like impostors. Like we were performing connection, not actually experiencing it, how it shows up

today. Overfunctioning in relationships. Always being the one who shows up, gives plans, remembers,

because deep down, you're afraid that if you stop performing, people will stop choosing you.

Chronic imposter syndrome, even when you're succeeding, even when you're wanted, you feel like a

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