One of the big losses during the pandemic and its aftermath has been confidence, confidence to conduct daily tasks, and to recover from the insidious ongoing traumatic stress may even be quite scary. We may not think that we need confidence as we have always,before, just completed our work and living tasks automatically, and consequentlyContinue reading “ANXIETY AND ITS SISTER DEPRESSION”
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PUTTING A FACE ON IT
How often are we untruthful, or in denial about how we really feel? It’s probably a normal human trait, based on many things, not least the notion that no one wants to know anyway, and the question, how are you, is purely a social greeting, not even requiring an answer. It may be more trueContinue reading “PUTTING A FACE ON IT”
WALKING IN RECOVERY STEPS
So many things in life can be thought of in steps, or degrees, going on, or even going up. Each of these words appear to indicate completing, a programme, or routine. When one thinks of this in this way it also points to learning, at each stage, and even to celebration of the learning, andContinue reading “WALKING IN RECOVERY STEPS”
STOOPED WITH HUMILIATION
Walking in recovery is so often burdened by what we carry with us, and by our conduct towards ourselves regarding our behaviour, what we do not always remember is that we are a unified whole, made up of complex and yet simple systems which consist of groups which support the system and connect as aContinue reading “STOOPED WITH HUMILIATION”
KNOWING YOUR ENEMY
In a large wood which was kept very well a pathway wended it’s way between beautiful trees, here and , an under carpet of plants had found their niches, and were currently in bloom. A large , and very strange creature plundered about. Thinking he was invisible he wandered in and out of the beautifulContinue reading “KNOWING YOUR ENEMY”
THE ZONING BEAST
I have always had an interest in most living things since I was a child even the smallest creature or cell fascinated me, but whilst I was curious, I was also aware of many of them whose potential to destroy almost outweighed what any human being could imagine. When I began to study at universityContinue reading “THE ZONING BEAST”
TAKE TWO
WALKING IN RECOVERY FOCUSED DIRECTION TWO
When we decide to clear up our chores, or deal with our outstanding work tasks it’s possible we consider, or arrange them in order of importance so we can prioritise them working through them in a coordinating way, and so we make sense of our chores or work tasks.
WALKING IN RECOVERY REVIEWING FOR FOCUSED DIRECTION TWO.
TAGS MOURNING REVIEWING In the spring of 2020 the horror of the pandemic virus causing the disease known as Covid 19 burst onto our screens, this genetic parasitic object considered to be only on the verge of living has been able to breed absolute terror into the global populations, and as research developed around theContinue reading “WALKING IN RECOVERY REVIEWING FOR FOCUSED DIRECTION TWO.”
aoibheann thoughtful reflections 