I’ve been unwell the last week, but managed to find a balance between cancellations and continuing activities. I facilitated a 6th birthday Lego party on Saturday, which had 15 children! I could have done without this drain on my energy, but I was able to get a lift to make it a bit more tolerable. I stayed at home and reduced my exercise to just walking at the start of the week and was able to return to yoga by Friday.
I managed to make my placement to conduct my first ever solo Art Therapy group! I had only two people who came in at different times, but it felt like a positive start, and some nerves were alleviated. I presented during supervision the next day and had individual clinical supervision on the Wednesday, where I was able to work from home. I agreed to bring reading materials on groups to study with a fellow trainee in a local café, which was nice.
On Thursday, I went to the trust’s trainee forum, which ended up being really useful and a great opportunity to connect with different trainees from different universities. I then had an afternoon of work, so it was quite a long, tiring day. After yoga on Friday, I did some chores, and spent the afternoon trying to focus on assignments whilst navigating work admin, feeling quite overwhelmed. Again, I felt devalued by agency work, yet hopeful about the work I could actually do with this new student.
I took a break that evening as a friend offered to cook me dinner. With the rest of the weekend ahead, I plan to focus on my studies, aside from the first Forest Hill Stanza open mic of the year on Sunday. I’m hoping I can find balance and make some progress with my assignments as a result.
Watching: The Simpsons, The Traitors, Squid Games, A Good Deed, Gavin & Stacey, Bottoms (film), How Israel Won the West (documentary film), Israelism: How Young American Jews’ Views of Israel Are Shifting (documentary film)
Reading: A Promised Land by Barack Obama (audiobook), The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold by Evelyn Waugh, Art Psychotherapy Groups: Between Pictures & Words edited by Sally Skaife, Group Analytic Art Therapy by Gerry McNeilly
Podcasts: Sleepy
Music: Gaffa Tape Sandy
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Poet on page and stage. Creator of She Grrrowls. Facilitator. Writer. 