Monday service: A fear of success

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This may be a day late again, but it's really no big deal. As long as it's once a week and honest, it's all good. This last week I made a lot of progress on the coaching course I'm currently doing - I was really cranking out the words, I think I wrote about 2000 all told, with research and…

5 years

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In February 2017 I had a breakdown. When you hit rock bottom, that's when you can look up and see how far it is back to the top. I made a plan. A five year plan. It was going well. I was on course. Driving lessons going well, learning how to be a counsellor. Completed most of my action plan.…

L3CiCS You as a Counsellor Assignment

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I am training to become a counsellor because I want to help people. Throughout my life I have struggled with a lot of various types of mental health problems, such as depression, addiction and severe anxiety. I was borderline narcissistic and I suffered from delusions of grandeur, as well as Golden-Child syndrome. I thought I deserved more, but I expected…

Self-isolation, quarantine, whatever this limbo is; week seven

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Time is strange at the moment. It goes fast, but feels slow. Days take ages, but are over before you know it. This strange coronavirus limbo is warping things. It's so quiet outside, it's unreal. Eerie. Spooky. It feels like the entire world has been paused. I didn't get a rowing machine in the end, I'm ashamed to say the…

Self isolation, week one

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You may have heard something about the coronavirus, I'm not sure if it's on the news yet... Oh, who am I kidding, it's everywhere. You can't have not heard about it by now, it's affecting absolutely everything. We're self isolating this week because Jake developed a cough the night before he was due to go back to school - we…

Slacking

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I finished my level 2 Counselling Skills course back in August, but I couldn't take the assessment because we had already booked to go on holiday. I went in to college and took it last night, and it felt great to be back in a learning environment. Being driven to college in a taxi in the dark, the smell of…
Mind

Mind

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This is entry three in this new themed series of blog posts in which, as part of my ongoing quest for greater self awareness and my continued personal and professional development, I pick a key word and write about it for a set amount of time. And you've probably spotted the theme by now. Let me know if you have,…

On hold. What to do?

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Potentially, I may have to hold fire on continuing my Counselling training for this upcoming academic year. We booked our annual holiday pretty much as soon as we came back off of our holiday last year, and it happened to coincide with the external assessment for my counselling course. So the problem is that I can't take the assessment because…