The Old Tin Shed

Well day two is over, it was hard work but so rewarding.  The group of people I am studying with is so amazing they all have such varied experiences in life some good and some bad.  We have all shared something of ourselves over the past couple of days, and I believe that it will make us all better counselors. Role playing sounds pretty childish, but done properly where both the client and counselor are active in the story, both can learn through the process.  Its amazing how energy zapping doing either role is. This morning when I got there I was really worried, I couldn't get out of my head and I found it really hard to concentrate during the first half hour as we went over what we had learnt yesterday.  I kept thinking how am I going to get out of this, I cant concentrate.  But then the amazing thing happened   It may not be amazing to you guys but the moment we started the role playing, the mind shut up and I had full concentra...

Hi all sorry about the lateness of this blog post and my slackness in posting but to be honest I needed a break.  Not just from the blog but from my life in general.  It was all becoming to hard again and I was worried I would fall into the abyss and never come out. Sometimes the easiest thing to do is not to fight, to just throw your hands in the air and say I have had enough.  I have said many times on this blog I am a fighter, and I am but even my strength my ability has its limits.  I watched a video recently (boy interrupted) about a young boy, who was not right from a very young age, he spent every day fighting to be "normal". He took his own life and no one will ever know the exact reasons.  His mother summized that he had come to the conclusion that it was always going to be like this and that he couldn't cope with that. Evan what an amazing child who left us too soon. In a way its how I can feel at times.  Its hard to get up eve...

Well we have all heard the phrase "you cant teach an old dog new tricks".  This is of course not entirely true. My mother and I have an interesting relationship, as multiple posts on this blog can attest.  To bring you up to date she has now moved house and my uncle has sold the place she was living in.  She is now begining to realise how difficult it can be to be a renter.  She has been asking since the day she moved in to put some hooks up for the collection of artworks collected over her and dads lifetime (some very nice stuff in the collection). The agent has been calling the owner who has not called back.  So I spent the best part of an hour imparting my wisdom and experience in dealing with asshole landlords.  She actually listened and took notes.  Yes I gasped in shock and horror that she did that.  She has been coping a hammering at work also so gave her some notes on how to deal with bullies there also.  After all having ...

You know from time to time you see a movie, quite often one you have seen a couple of times, but for whatever reason, this time you hear something different. Cryptic yep, but I am an avid anime fan, have been for as long as I can remember.  The first Anime movie I ever watched was Ghost In The Shell.  Most people who read this will have never seen it, unless your Japanese then you most likely have.  Like all Japanese Anime it delves into topics that cannot be covered in other media.  I have seen this film maybe 100 times, but today, today something stood out.  Introverted maybe but it stood out to me. There are countless ingredients that make up the Human Body and Mind. Like all the components that make up me as an individual with my own personality.  Sure I have a face and a voice to distinguish myself from others.  But my thoughts and my memories belong only to me and I carry my own sense of destiny. Each of those things are just a small par...

Every now and again, a song comes along that changes the very way you think.  The way you see your world, or even more importantly made you feel something you hadn't before.  In my life I am happy to say there has been many of these songs.  I often relate a place and a time in my life to the discovery of that song. An example of this, though not a song is Fanfare for the Common Man.  To me it goes back to when I was a very small child, when it was the opening music for the ABC news in country Victoria.  I would get excited because it meant that dad was back from milking for the day.  As I grew older my music tastes changed from top 40 to stuff that was far darker.  By my early teens I was heavily into heavy metal music (the devils music according to some).  I look back at this period of my life, and I was searching.  Searching for what I don't know, maybe the real me, the one who wasn't the show child for my parents. The first heavy metal...