Don’t invite disease into your mind.

27 January 2023Posted inReflectionsNo Comments
Considering the circumstances of the universe, each and every one of you reading this is amazingly lucky to be alive and exist in this world. In this world there are unlimited great experiences, beautiful things, challenges and opportunities that you couldn't even begin to imagine in your wildest dreams. Seek out those instead of looking into the deep catacombs of…

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

4 March 2022Posted inEssays, The MissionNo Comments
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.…

My procrastination

24 November 2021Posted inReflections, The MissionNo Comments
Procrastination is a tricky beast. To anyone watching it may look like I don't care about anything, and I'm being lazy. But in reality, I'm crippled by indecision. I don't know what to do next. There are so many things I want to do, things I want to start, things I want to finish, things I want to carry on…

Theory test passed again

25 June 2021Posted inReflections, The MissionNo Comments
So I had to retake my theory test simply because the pandemic had caused too much time to lapse. I casually remembered that I had booked it the night before the test, mild panic set in, and I quickly took three or four mock tests on the theory test app. I passed the first one, but then massively flunked the…

L3CiCS Mental Health Assignment

30 June 2020Posted inQualifications courseworkNo Comments
Identifying and describing a range of mental health problems As categorised by The National Institute for Health Care Excellence (NICE), the most common mental health problems are: Depression – The main symptom is a low feeling and a loss of pleasure in things that were once enjoyable. Other symptoms include feeling irritable all the time, having drastic changes in appetite,…

L3CiCS You as a Counsellor Assignment

28 June 2020Posted inQualifications courseworkNo Comments
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…

L3CiCS Learning Log – 12th June 2020

20 June 2020Posted inQualifications courseworkNo Comments
This week we are looking at Assessment in counselling, and how it informs the counselling work. In counselling, assessment is the process used to determine if counselling is appropriate and needed, which type of counselling would be the most suitable for a client’s needs, and to take an initial measurement of the severity of the client’s issues. Assessments are important…

L3CiCS Reflective Diary – 8th May 2020

8 May 2020Posted inQualifications courseworkNo Comments
This week in lockdown, I am working on self-awareness and how it contributes to the ability to empathise with others. Empathy is a kind of emotional imagination; it is the ability to map the knowledge of your own feelings to those of someone else in order to gain a deeper understanding of how those emotions influenced their mental state, their…

L3CiCS Learning Log – 29th May 2020

8 May 2020Posted inQualifications courseworkNo Comments
Limits of proficiency are, as they sound, the limits to which a counsellor can work. Once again, boundaries are important. People come to counselling for an incredibly wide range of reasons, and not all counsellors are fully trained in all aspects of counselling. A counsellor’s initial training is the foundation which can be built upon as they gain professional experience…

L3CiCS Reflective Diary – 3rd April 2020

3 April 2020Posted inQualifications courseworkNo Comments
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…