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”
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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”
CARING AND DEBRIEFING
Understanding caring and debriefing is not simply an intellectual excercise but a personal understanding of human beings methods of making attachments and connections, in both the physical and mental spheres. It is frequently the case that carers, pastors, therapists, and many other persons in front line care have evolved into the work due to unresolvedContinue reading “CARING AND DEBRIEFING”
LET THE BODY SPEAK
Did you ever think of your body as having a voice? During my lifetime , particularly in relation to trauma a growing ‘body of people’ have followed the ‘somatic trend’ re understanding and working with our bodies. Of course there has been, practically forever, an interest or even an obsession with the body beautiful, peopleContinue reading “LET THE BODY SPEAK”
CONTROLLING WHAT SEEMS UNCONTROLLABLE
I,ve noticed that the themes relative to the experiences of the pandemic are infiltrating many adverts, and if you are anything like me you would have, in the past paused the Television until they were over and felt some frustration at the interruption they cause to your favourite viewing. A current advert for ‘Pension Bee’Continue reading “CONTROLLING WHAT SEEMS UNCONTROLLABLE”
let the vulnerable speak
For some time I have been reflecting on promoting a positive and appropriate attitude towards vulnerable persons.In average times we tend to think of vulnerable people as those who are physically and mentally disabled but in current times we really need to extend our view of vulnerability to include all of us. Such a stanceContinue reading “let the vulnerable speak”
ADAPTING WITH INSIGHT
In the last blog we were looking at the notion of ‘The Shadow’ being loose in us and in our world as a whole.In some instances it is easy to identify,though not often acknowledged, we have elements of it all around us, we can see the crooks, tricksters to mention a very few, for theyContinue reading “ADAPTING WITH INSIGHT”
ADAPTING TO NEW WAYS OF LIVING
I wet my feet on Analytical psychology during my training and ongoing development as a therapist, but it made sense to me regarding healthy living and dealing with trauma and life’s challenges.It is not my purpose to present a treatise on Jungian psychology or to denigrate it by using it eclectically, but to allude toContinue reading “ADAPTING TO NEW WAYS OF LIVING”
aoibheann thoughtful reflections 