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in aoibheann thoughful reflections IM CRACKING UP TAG CRACKING AND SPLITING

In the metaphor about the banquet cloth people had different reactions at the first unfolding, there was terror, freezing, and staying with the experience unfolding and or pressure can cause real fear , fear of losing control and in plain language of going mad. The truth is we are all a bit mad especially atContinue reading “in aoibheann thoughful reflections IM CRACKING UP TAG CRACKING AND SPLITING”

UNFOLDING SAFETY TAG RELATIONSHIP

In the last blog I used a metaphor of a banquet cloth being carried to the table to spread it out for the banquet. The cloth was large and required two people to carry it so it could be laid out and examined to see if it needed cleaning for the great event. When theContinue reading “UNFOLDING SAFETY TAG RELATIONSHIP”

CREEPING TWO TAG UNFOLDING

The development of a normal child doesn’t always involve creeping before walking, sometimes they suddenly set off and almost run, these development stages are often watched with delight, love joy pride to mention just a few feelings, and the little one is praised and encouraged to keep it up some parents will even log theseContinue reading “CREEPING TWO TAG UNFOLDING”

creeping tag fear confidence face

Have you noticed how a baby begins to crawl and the process by which he/she gains confidence eventually, after a period of time realising they can stand if they can just get a grip of something to hold onto. Next, watching in the wings there is a doting parent who praises the child as thoughContinue reading “creeping tag fear confidence face”

WALK BESIDE ME tag healthy harmonious

W e have been looking at healthy relationships in personal and professional life using reflections on the knowledge of self and others when engaging and connecting within relationships in complex and healthy situations.In particular we have been considering such dynamics relative to the current situations arising from and within the pandemic. Allied to this weContinue reading “WALK BESIDE ME tag healthy harmonious”

BOUNDARIES AND WORKER AND CLIENT CARE.

Physician heal yourself is a familiar and sometimes caustic comment make by someone, who either cares about us and or need to step back, or is made as a caustic comment by someone who doesn’t want to hear advice how ever apt. Living on earth in a world of people always in some kind ofContinue reading “BOUNDARIES AND WORKER AND CLIENT CARE.”

BOUNDARY LINES

The daffodils have done their job, they have heralded in the spring, and now they are dying back, they return to the earth eventually and await their time in the next year.The thing is those plants really know their place and know how to defend themselves.Recently I read how they emit a toxin when pickedContinue reading “BOUNDARY LINES”

BOUNDARIES 2

TAG WOUNDED HEALER Now we are in mid April and the daffodils are still standing all around the countryside bringing such colour and pleasure to those of us who like them.A central lesson they teach us, is that although they blow about in the wind, swaying in the breeze they still remain steady in theContinue reading “BOUNDARIES 2”

BOUNDARIES

Easter has come and gone and with it’s coming was a variety of weather which reminded me of the Marches I experienced when a child it seems like the ‘peeping out’ of spring with the windiness characteristic of March. How beautiful it is when the days are bright, the daffodils are dancing everywhere, and theContinue reading “BOUNDARIES”

IN OVER YOUR HEAD

TAG BOUNDARIES The world, has, for along time been moving at a run with deep and consistent pressures on many people, even the great collapse and subsequent recovery in 2008 and following has not tamed the pressures and greed which has entered into our cultures all over the earth. Nevertheless there are still many peopleContinue reading “IN OVER YOUR HEAD”