It's great to find you on Hive/ PeakD, @corinasSkills! I look forward to our developing dialogue and movement forward in practical ways - especially around Living In The Gift :-D I highly recommend joining the #naturalmedicine community - https://peakd.com/c/hive-120078/created - to get an idea of how communities work here - speak to you soon xx Clare (Galloway!) 
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Welcome to hive! I’m glad that you’re on here with us, it’s a wonderful place full of lots of great people!

I feel bad that your post wasn't noticed until now but I'm really glad that @clareartista has shared it so that I can come and give you some tips and formally welcome you to the blockchain here! 

It absolutely sounds like you would thrive in the @naturalmedicine community as well as others like @ecotrain. I would love to connect with you once you start to read these comments and hopefully we didn't lose you. I think you're connected with Clare though so I'm sure she will help get you back on your feet here!

Look forward to when you come back and engage with us all over here in our little corner of the internet!

We’ve got another beginner zone, so-to-speak that has lots of important information you can learn from. I would recommend you check it out to learn some stuff about the place, lots of great information is posted there.
https://peakd.com/c/hive-109221/created

One of the things I wanted to do is give you a piece of advice that could make this place awesome for you! Talking with some of the people who have been here for a while, we remember one of the best things we did was find other people’s posts through others or go looking and start commenting meaningful things. If you drop small phrases it won’t get you much attention but if you look at a persons post and leave a great comment, a lot of times they will appreciate it and talk with you. If you continue to do this you will develop a friendship with them and will gain followers and grow your account. This is not an easy and fast process. It takes time but the more effort you put in the more you can be rewarded, with limitations of course.

I just say this in hopes you go out there and really connect with people and grow your account. The more we all do this, the more people will come here to take advantage of such a great place.

With commenting and posting, we consume what’s called ‘resource credits’ and in the beginning you don’t have a lot, you have to earn more. If you want to consistently comment and post, the website https://giftgiver.site/ does 10 delegations for you to increase your credits to comment or post. Give it a try if you need some!

There’s also a great article that can answer a lot of the questions you may have. Please visit it at:
https://peakd.com/hive-198524/@hivepeople/hive-for-noobs-hive-198524

We’ve also got another beginner zone, so-to-speak that has lots of important information you can learn from. Check it out at:
https://peakd.com/c/hive-109221/created

Here are also some great communities of people you can check out! The list is a work in progress so please take them as suggestions but there are others besides these!

Crypto/Finance
Leo Finance
https://peakd.com/c/hive-167922/created
HODL Community
https://peakd.com/c/hive-126009/created

Natural Medicine
https://peakd.com/c/hive-120078/created

Gaming
https://peakd.com/c/hive-13323/created

DIY
https://peakd.com/c/hive-129017/created
https://peakd.com/c/hive-189641/created

General posting
OCD
https://peakd.com/c/hive-174578/created
Curie
https://peakd.com/c/hive-156768/created

LEGO
https://peakd.com/c/hive-142010/created

Art
https://peakd.com/c/hive-156509/created

Travel
https://peakd.com/c/hive-184437/created
https://peakd.com/c/hive-163772/created

Writing (poetry, free writes, stories)
https://peakd.com/c/hive-170798/created

Microsoft Excel
https://peakd.com/c/hive-102332/created

Welcome to Hive Corina!  I definitely identify with you and your husband started to write so that you could interconnect stronger.  

I started writing to connect better with somebody I love and understand their passion and it became a passion of mine too.    

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You’ll get the hang of it!  Everyone Hives differently. I’ve been treating it as a testing ground for ideas and a kind of creative scrapbook as well as a place to share my other work which is available elsewhere as well 😀.  It also serves great as a place to gather like minds and not so-like-minds who are open to understanding!  That’s my favorite thing about it!