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When life doesn’t go the way we planned

When life doesn’t go the way we planned.

A quote that really resonates with me is “Life is a journey to be experienced, not a destination to be reached.” If you are anything like me, then you probably have a vision (maybe even a checklist) for how you want your life to go. Perhaps you wanted to be married by thirty, have travelled to a certain number of countries by fifty, or have worked ten years in your dream job before you have kids. But now more than ever, we live in uncertain times. So, what happens when things don’t go according to our plan? When suddenly you lose your job, the world shuts down and you can’t travel, or your relationship comes to an end?

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Fine, some of the time: The impact of mental illness on relationships

Fine, some of the time: The impact of mental illness on relationships

I feel like I don’t have the right to write about depression because I’m not depressed. I know the term gets used a lot, but it doesn’t always have a capital ‘d’ or mean the same thing to everyone. When I was in high school one of my friends, a beautiful and incredibly talented artist, was clinically depressed and prone to self-harm. People talked about her in hushed tones and nudged each other when they saw her bandaged wrists peeking out from the sleeves of her school jumper. Everyone knew why she had the bandages, but no one ever asked her about it. It’s not a subject people feel comfortable talking about really and goes on the things-we-don’t-talk-about list, along with abortion and the colonisation of Australia. (If that sentence made you inwardly cringe, then I rest my case).

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Resilience

Resilience

When you spend so much of your professional life talking about trauma in its various guises, it’s natural to also explore some of the human behaviours and characteristics that helpful counteract the negative effects that trauma can leave behind in its wake.

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The space in between

The space in between

A few years ago now I wrote a blog about ‘choices, chances, changes’ (click HERE for link) back when I couldn’t legitimately call myself a Counsellor, where I shared my own lived experience of trauma.

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