David – Iain Douglas Stewart

Further thoughts on my father’s passing

By Iain March 27, 2025ReflectionsNo Comments

So, my Dad died. As I said in the other post, we weren't close by any stretch of the imagination, the last time I saw him in person was in maybe 1997 or 1998 when I was in my early twenties, the last time I spoke to him on the phone was in 2019 on Jake's birthday (I didn't actually…

James Drysdale Stewart

By Iain February 17, 2025ReflectionsNo Comments

So, on the 14th of February, I received the news that my father had passed away. Now, before I start, please be aware that although he was my father, we were not close. He left our family when my brother and I were very young, and while we did go and stay with him and his new wife for a…

L3CiCS Reflective Diary – 7th February 2020

By Iain February 7, 2020Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

This week we split up into small groups to discuss how we could use counselling theory to understand our own personal history, and to reflect on what we have learned about the theories so far to help understand events in our life, and our responses to those events. Studying theory has definitely made me fully aware of how the past…

What does it for me?

By Iain September 21, 2018The MissionNo Comments

The fear of turning out like my dad.— Iain Douglas Stewart 😙👌 (@Iain_D_Stewart) August 12, 2018 Inspired by this tweet, and powered by a love of self-discovery, I'm going to answer this question honestly and fully, to the best of my ability. It took me a while to get around to it, but as you can see, what fuels me…

L2CiCS: Reflective Diary – 7th March 2018

By Iain March 7, 2018Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

This week in class we explored endings in counselling. We were asked to reflect on how we feel about endings, and what kind of effects they have on us. Some endings I like. These are usually situations or people or problems that are causing me emotional pain. No-one likes pain. Making the pain stop is nice. Some endings I do…

L2CiCS: Reflective Diary – 17th January 2018

By Iain January 17, 2018Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

This week was a bit more abstract and self-exploratory than usual, in that we carried on exploring our understanding of the relationship between our personalities and our helping work by asking ourselves various introspective questions (Unit 5.1), and we also considered the ways in which our life history has impacted on our behaviour and life choices (Unit 5.2). Because of…

Friday update 8/8/14

By Iain August 8, 2014Internet, Reflections, Site Related, VideogamesNo Comments

I'm a bit later than usual today due to visiting my Mum, David, Jasmine and Otis in Southampton today. Had a great time on the way over brainstorming various things including: content for my personal YouTube channel, how to work the Twitter machine, and if I can somehow combine them all with the posts here to pretty much automate the…

Finally found it

By Iain May 4, 2014Films/TV, Music, Reflections, Site Related, VideogamesNo Comments

I feel so good right now, I finally found an old music video that I was almost convinced didn't actually exist. It was only that David remembered it as well that I knew it wasn't a figment of my imagination. I remembered it was on MTV, or The Box, and it featured a bunch of soldiers in gas masks shooting…

Friday Update 20/12/13

By Iain December 20, 2013Reflections, VideogamesNo Comments

I've been playing a little Street Fighter X Tekken this week, learning the ropes as it were, and it's not as fun as Super Street Fighter IV. It feels too tight and a little shonky. I've also been playing some Adventure Time: Explore The Dungeon Because I Don't Know (yes, that is the actual title). I've covered my affection for…

600th post spectacular – Questions galore

By Iain October 9, 2013Books, Creativity, Internet, Reflections, Site Related, VideogamesNo Comments

Ok, so the numbers say that this will be post number 600. I feel like I want to do something special for it, and after having a little think, I remembered that I’m currently reading a book on my Nexus called “Be creative” by Infinite Ideas – it was free and has so far given me a few decent tips. In one chapter it had a list of questions you should ask of yourself in order to understand yourself, because how often do you actually stop and question things?

So, here we are with the questions and answers. I endeavoured to be as brutally honest as I could be and I gave each question a lot of thought. I ended up spraying my thought process on to the page as I was typing, and I did repeat myself a little, so be warned!

WARNING!!! VERY LONG POST!!!

This post is going to have the most tags ever.