Blog
July 2010
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Focus on Carers
Posted on Wednesday, 14 July 2010
Just to set the context for this article, I need to explain that I am a family carer, looking after my daughter Rowan who will be 22 years old in January 2011. Rowan suffered brain damage at birth due to asphyxia and wasn’t expected to survive. However, here she is today, happy and well, but with a limited range of skills and maybe a different way of understanding the world.
Caring has often – especially in the early days – by necessity, taken over my whole life. Taking care of Rowan and my other two young children, as well as trying to identify and source appropriate services to support Rowan and the rest of the family, can be frustrating and exhausting. At times, as a family carer, it can feel as though life is one long battle and you feel as though you have to shout louder and louder to be heard! Even though my situation has eased as my other two children have grown older and become more...Read More
Releasing and Resolving Suppressed Emotions
Posted on Wednesday, 14 July 2010
As we grow up, we all learn how to suppress emotions – maybe we fear the emotion too painful to experience; maybe because of conditioning “children should be seen and not heard” “big boys don’t cry” – for whatever reason, difficult emotions, such as anger, sadness or fear in some form are suppressed. This process creates many problems for us. A build-up of old, unsettling emotions from the past deadens our aliveness, inhibits our creativity, muddles and confuses the expression of love in precious relationships. Further suppressing and keeping our emotions “under control” drains physical and emotional energy and can limit worthwhile daily activity. Most people are only vaguely aware that they carry what can amount to quite a heavy burden around and fewer still have any understanding that it is possible...Read More