Having not update this since the end of March, I am thinking of stopping this series of blog posts altogether. I’m not sure anyone is actually reading them!
A lot has changed since March: my relationship of nearly five years is ending, I moved out of our shared flat two months ago, and I found a full-time job, which is due to start in November.
I had hoped to spend the summer re-priroitsing quality time with this partner, spending more time with friends and family, and focussed on creative projects.
As you can imagine, the changes that have happened have taken over my life both logistically and emotionally. Meanwhile, I have been doing tutoring work and applying for jobs and landed one in the NHS in a team specialising in work with Autistic adults, which will be a long commute away, but an extremely valuable experience.
I graduated from my MA in Art Psychotherapy and registered from the HCPC. I have been attending lots of exhibitions and CPD, including one at the London Art Therapy Centre, which I visited during my very first year of training. It was about loss and letting go, through working with clay, and it was incredible!
After a break away, I’ll be preparing to work six days a week, as I move my tuition work to Saturdays, which I’m committed to until January. It’s going to be a tough few months! I’m also signing up to a charity comedy programme, but they want everyone to sell 10 tickets, and as I’ll be doing an evening CPD, I’m not sure if spending my Sunday afternoons training in comedy may be the best idea…
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Watching: The Summer I Turned Pretty, Shrinking, Girlfriends, The Bear
Reading: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers, Am I Having Fun Now? Anxiety, Applause and Life’s Big Questions – Suzi Ruffeli, Yellowface – R.F.Kuang, Surfacing – Margaret Atwood, Thus Bad Begins – Javier Marias, Letters Home – Jennifer Wong, The State of Affairs – Esther Perel (audiobook),
Avoidance, Drugs, Heartbreak and Dogs – Jordan Stephens (audiobook),
Music: The Wytches, Leon Bridges, CMAT, Prima Queen, Gorillaz, The Maccabees, The Cribs, Bombay Bicycle Club, Divorce, Bring me To The Horizon, Noah and the Whale, Laura Marling, Blondshell, Adele, Bon Iver, HAIM, Tame Impala, Ashnikko, Destra, Machel Montano, Christina Aguilera, Regina Specktor, Princess Nokia
Podcasts: It Begins with You – Jillian Turecki, Begin Again – Davina McCall, The Divorce Podcast
Poet on page and stage. Creator of She Grrrowls. Facilitator. Writer. 