shadow work – Iain Douglas Stewart

The “Lewis becoming an adult” thing

By Iain 6 February 2020Reflections, Site Related, The Mission, VideogamesNo Comments

This is going to be hard to write without sounding jaded, or bitter, but I'm going to try. My nephew, Lewis, turned 18 recently. He's Jane's sister's first-born, and I've known him all his life. I don't know where to start with how I feel about my perspective on all this, so forgive me if it seems disjointed. So, as…

2013 in review

By Iain 3 September 2018Creativity, Reflections, Site Related, The Mission, VideogamesNo Comments

I'm just going back and porting my blog posts from 2013 over and man, this was a funny year. Existential panic had set in. I knew I wanted to do something with my life, but I was throwing darts into the mist trying to find what that something was. In the previous year, app development didn't stick, and drawing pictures…

Self-awareness is a bad thing?

By Iain 19 August 2018The MissionNo Comments

On my journey to becoming a counsellor I have developed a degree of self-awareness. With both the self-reflective exercises on the Level 2 counselling skills course and the Jungian shadow work I've done in my journals, I recognise the things I have discovered as nothing but positive. I've uncovered unconscious core beliefs that were blatantly untrue, which were formed as…

We all thrive on stories

By Iain 12 August 2018Books, Films/TV, Internet, The MissionNo Comments

We all thrive on stories.We grow up on them, we tell ourselves them, we communicate with them, we shape our lives with them. Stories make the world go around, and stories are nothing without characters. So, a question:Who are the top 5 characters that shaped who you are now?— Jordan Casstles (@MrCasstles) August 11, 2018 Now, how could I resist…