The witch is back!

The witch in question is me: I have just come back online after months and months and I felt like I needed to apologise.
I fell in the same old trap all over again, letting the hard time I was going through cause me to lose control and isolate myself, keeping contact only with the people that were closest to me.
Things might not as been as tough as one could imagine, but becoming a hermit is the way I usually react when more problems combine together and anxiety kicks in; I freeze, I don't know what to do, so I end up doing nothing.
How pathetic. It does sound truly pathetic as I read it, because that kind of behaviour didn't use to belong to me.
But this is not the time to turn it into a tragedy: we aren't characters from a book, there are always going to be times when we don't act like ourselves, but looking at the mirror in spite will not help us get out of tough times (quite the opposite actually). What matters now is doing two simple things: snap out of it and react.
This post is also to advise you not to do the same.
Don't become a hedgehog in difficult times, don't make my same mistakes.
The shell we often like to hide inside can too easily become a prison.
I am surprised my loved ones and closest friends bear with my hermit phases, not many people are blessed with such luck; but one day this attitude might hurt someone.
Abuse of other people's kindness and patience and that shell that's always ready to give us shelter will stop being a choice.

So how did I end up here?

Hello everybody
let me just begin by saying how happy I am to have started this blog; it is a very important step for me to be able to share my being a Unitarian Universalist with the world. Wow... just saying this filled my heart with warmth.
Filling my heart with warmth was exactly what becoming a U.U. did to me. It took me about 18 years, but I got there eventually... and it was one of the best things that ever happened to me.
I'll tell you about my past troublesome religious experiences in another post, but believe me when I say that discovering Unitarian Universalism was worth all my previous struggling.
A real epiphany.
The only problem was... well, I was forced to practise on my own.
There were just no Unitarians at all where I lived and I even had to keep my religion a secret to most people as they would have considered me a heretic otherwise. Normally, I wouldn't have cared, if I was the only one affected... but I didn't want my reputation (especially regarding something so important like religion) to cause troubles to my family.
A few months ago I moved here to England and I found a Unitarian congregation.
It was truly heart-warming to be able to finally share my religion and practise together with other people: I finally found a place where I was welcome, I didn't have to hide who I was, what my thoughts and feelings were, a place where I was encouraged to share all these things with other people from the most different backgrounds.
Being part of that community felt so good that whenever I couldn't go to a service because I was ill I couldn't help feeling miserable.
Now, unfortunately, I'm going to have to move back home (in Sardinia, Italy) for some time before being able to come back to England (long story... or maybe not) so I'm sort of back to square one.
It was difficult for me to accept having to practise on my own once again after the life-changing experience of finding such a loving Unitarian community. The only thought that made me feel a bit better about it was that I wouldn't have been so lonely if I started a Unitarian Universalist blog.
Thankfully I recently found the Church of the Larger Fellowship thanks to Amy Garner on Twitter, so I'm no longer "doomed" to be a lonely U.U. but I can actually practise with other people from all around the world. You can imagine how blessed I felt upon finding CLF.
But I ended up deciding to carry on with the idea of starting a blog where I could share my experience as a Unitarian Universalist all the same. It's important for me to be able to speak up, at least on the internet, after all the time I had to keep my religion to myself.
So here I am, hoping to bore the smallest amount of people possible and to share my life and thoughts as a U.U.
I'd like to clarify I'm not here only to ramble about myself: I would be more than glad to know your stories, too!
Let me know what's on your mind, whether you're a fellow Unitarian Universalist or not; feel free to comment here, email me and message me on Twitter.
You can also catch me on Skype by adding acheros.chalice to your contact list.

Thank you for your time =)
Catch you later!