healing strategies – music and writing
How do you put yourself back together when someone breaks your brain? I am listening to my brother's music playlist. Waiting patiently for my paracetamol. I don't think art is going to cut it. I [...]
How do you put yourself back together when someone breaks your brain? I am listening to my brother's music playlist. Waiting patiently for my paracetamol. I don't think art is going to cut it. I [...]
I am UPSET. I am totally dysregulated. And I have a headache. . . . Tonight in my last night at this wonderful in-patient unit, I sat in an empty chair facing the dining room. [...]
I wanted to STOP by and say hellloooo, , , before I take. off again!! This morning I stepped out into my new kitchen and saw that my meds were all divvied up. WHAT IS [...]
It is interesting to visit Soul Gardening after a big break, and read back on the past year or so worth of public posts. It has me wondering - what is the purpose of this [...]
I am not going to lie. . . My nerves are finally shot. All it took was for a couple more stressful security conscious emails to come through, after a full week of this stuff, [...]
I love my new elderly client so much! There definitely is something very special about our elders. They are precious. Will Baby Boomers, Gen X or Gen Y be that delightful in their elderly years? [...]
The second thing that came out of the conversation with my psychologist friend today was a bit of professional development. I told her about my woes regarding underwhelming degrees of change in my psychosocial support [...]
The thing about doing support work is the intoxicating potential of possibilities for people in my care. As someone who has a particular talent for seeing what could be possible, I find it very rewarding [...]
Something about my NDIS support shift this afternoon made me think about how I can engage in professional development in my mental health support work. I want to have a real impact on my client's [...]
It is an interesting question. And one, which I suppose you are likely to be asked in an interview for disability support work - 'Why do you want to work as a disability support worker?' [...]