September marked the start of my current wave of counselling. After being on the waiting list for over a year, my CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) for PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) has finally started. If you have been reading my blog for a while, you’ll know this isn’t my first rodeo when it comes to counselling and done right, it …
It’s Just Life
During a long awaited lunch with a girlfriend, we chatted non stop about our lives, it had been months since we had seen each other so there was much ground to cover. The latest gossip from work and home, recent conversations with our significant others and life in general. Her birthday was looming and she listed the current plans she …
Heat Waves and Hissy Fits
Nothing quite like a summer holiday to revive and refresh – June and July were so hectic, they whizzed by in a blur. After the Pink concert mid June, came Fathers Day, Sports Day, then my daughters gymnastics showcase, her birthday and subsequent birthday party; that we had to push back a week just to fit it in. In the …
Pink Jewel
Just say yes. That’s what I did when one of my friends, casually suggested last November, going to see Pink in concert this Summer. I had seen her before many years ago and to go again, this time with my daughter, was an experience I couldn’t pass up We were a group of 10 ladies in the end, my daughter …
Weirdly Hopeful
Now I’m back working in retail, I see a delightful cross-section of the populace on a daily basis. Even the most difficult amongst our clientele, make me smile. Having lived in a little bubble of being a stay at home mum for 7 years, I am now back mixing with the human race and they are an interesting bunch. Just …
Testing the boundaries
One of the burdens of an invisible illness is that it only affects you. The weight of the now and future of it all is heavy and all consuming but adjacent to you, sitting right next to you, is absolutely fine and dandy. For now, I can hide my condition and I choose to keep my diagnosis a secret …
Realities of Retail
I have had three retail jobs in my career. A Saturday job as a teenager, with a manager who seemed to despise me; I was also an Assistant Manager in 2011 and my new current position. The main bulk of my career has been largely office based. Most people pick a lane and stay in it but my career path …
5 Years
Usually anniversaries are occasions to celebrate but I have a tough time with today’s significance. Today 12th March marks 5 years to the day I was told I had RP (Retinitis Pigmentosa), again. This time the diagnosis was accurate and this time, it was going to happen. The ’it’ being sight loss. 5 years ago I had no idea what …
Sleep or Leap
The trouble with getting married on Valentine’s Day is the overwhelming assumption that my husband and I are hopeless romantics. Let me stop you right there, we aren’t. This year we celebrated our 9 year anniversary and when I say celebrated, we went to work. My husband then went to collect my mum so she could stay over and provide …
Heart v Ego
I can’t believe we are almost in March. I never meant to take such an extended break from writing but here we are Our Christmas came to a close, with a happy ending. In the odd grey days between Christmas and New Year, my husband was randomly contacted by the Managing Director of a company he had wanted to work …