Keith Flint 17/9/1969 – 4/3/2019 R.I.P.

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Cross-post from ObeliskTherapy.net Three years ago, on Monday, the 4th of March 2019 Keith Flint was found unresponsive in his home after hanging himself. You'd think, watching one of The Prodigy's music videos that he was an aggressive and angry man. But he wasn't. Adorned with black ink, chunks of metal and an aggressive fashion sense, he did look intimidating.…

Four bags!

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I filled four bags with my old clothes. Crazy. It was mostly old stuff that doesn't fit anymore, but some of it I don't think suited me nowadays, or wouldn't suit the person I'm projecting my self to be. Also sorted out my supplements for the next two weeks and had a tidy. Threw out a lot of stuff. Plan…

Life Coaching Diploma Module 1

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I have recently taken up an online course about Life Coaching. Specifically, this one on New Skills Academy: https://newskillsacademy.co.uk/course/life-coaching-course If you fancy doing a course from New Skills Academy, consider using this affiliate link which will give you a massive 75% off a course: https://newskillsacademy.co.uk/refer/IAINDOUGLAS75-1226. It will also give me 75% off my next course, so it's a win-win scenario…

L3CiCS Counselling Theory and Self-Awareness Assignment

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The purpose of this assignment is to show how learning about counselling theory and applying it to your own life can promote and increase self-awareness, by deepening the understanding of your own personality, history and relationships. This will be a very personal journey through my counselling studies so far, and hopefully a good reflection of what I have learned about…

L3CiCS Reflective Diary – 15th May 2020

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This week we are looking at ethics in counselling, in particular, how to apply an understanding of an ethical framework to counselling practise sessions. This combines the two aspects of counselling that I feel are my weak areas: ethics and skills practises. Seeing as we are still in lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, we cannot actually do skills practise,…

L3CiCS Reflective Diary – 10th April 2020

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Research is an interesting aspect of counselling and psychotherapy, and I think it is very important. It is essentially a sphere of knowledge that exists parallel to your own body of knowledge as a person and as a counsellor, and overlaps in places. Research, or “finding out what works” has created talking therapies and its different modalities and theories, and…

L3CiCS Reflective Diary – 3rd April 2020

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This week we looked at common mental health problems and possible reasons for their incidence in society. Mental health problems could be seen as skewed rules that people are trying to live their lives by. These abstract rules are mostly developed alongside the organism as it grows and learns to navigate this world we live in. These self-created rules form…

L3CiCS Reflective Diary – 1st February 2020

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This week we talked in small groups about how we could use counselling theory to understand our own personality, or apply ideas found in the theories we have covered this year so far to increase our self-awareness, and reflect on ways in which one or more theories have helped us understand ourselves. For me, the concept of congruence, and being…

L3CiCS Reflective Diary 31st January 2020

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This week we looked at why theory is important in counselling work. Through a group discussion we identified several key aspects of why it is important, and I was quite surprised by the amount we came up with. First though, I think it’s important that I reflect on what is meant by the word “theory”. A theory is generally a…