When I’m working with a fellow practitioner I get performance anxiety! I hear myself think, “Am I doing this well? Is my theoretical framework helping them? I wonder what they think of my style?” In my most recent example, the fellow practitioner hadn’t mentioned they were in a similar industry until after I had said something fairly controversial. The…
I’m not one to jump on bandwagons. I find they lead me places that I am not really wanting to go and all too often, halfway through the journey, the wagon’s wheels fall off. I am however firmly on the R U OK? Foundation bandwagon as they are working both tirelessly and effectively, at breaking down the stigma associated with…
I was sitting at my kitchen table this morning and sipping a freshly made coffee. It was a good attempt, as the milk was frothed to silky. (Silky coffee is a “thing” in the Hancock household.) The heater had been preset so the room was warm the minute I walked in, and so having coffee in a cosy and comfortable…
I have Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease. Yeah, I hadn’t heard of it either. I only know about it because my mother was diagnosed a good 20 years ago, and because of its heritability, I was diagnosed too. Historically the ladies in our family haven’t done so well, but I think that is because medicine wasn’t advanced enough to track…
I found myself swallowing back some tears when my littlest Mini was trying to explain to me the “funny feeling” she gets in her tummy when forced to talk to children she doesn’t know. It was school holidays and we were doing that home holiday thing where you end up jamming as many activities into your life as possible! This…
