It seems apt that one of my final learning journals before the completion of the course is one on endings. In this journal I am going to explore how to end the helping interaction appropriately. In particular, I will be… Read More ›
Bereavement
The Rose: A Song for my Mum on Mother’s Day
A song for my mum, Pamela Davies, on Mother’s Day 2018. This was one of the songs at her funeral. Beautiful words I know she would have loved. The Rose by Bette Midler Some say love, it is a river That… Read More ›
A Song for my Mum: If We Never Meet Again This Side of Heaven
A song for my mother, Pamela Jean Davies, on her birthday (4th March, 2012). She would have been 61-years old. She liked Johnny Cash in her younger days and to be honest I only started listening to him after she… Read More ›
Bereavement: An Individual Process
A learning journal I wrote for my counselling course: In this learning journal I am going to identify and explore differences between the self and others. Recent life events, especially the loss of my mother, have given me a better… Read More ›
Reflections on Grief
I am finding it very difficult to know what to reflect on within this learning journal. After having 3-weeks away from the counselling course over Christmas, I am left with only those memories of Christmas, which are somewhat depressing. I… Read More ›
Poem: Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep
Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep Do not stand at my grave and weep I am not there; I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow, I am the diamond glints on snow, I am… Read More ›
Time will Ease the Hurt – Poem
Time will Ease the Hurt The sadness of the present days Is locked and set in time, And moving to the future Is a slow and painful climb. But all the feelings that are now So vivid and so real… Read More ›
