December 2011

Last year i completed a foundation course in counselling and psychotherapy and during one of my first practice sessions my client kept asking the time. This bothered me a bit. I didn't understand the rush and I didn't know how to answer. My facilitator having picked up on this gently suggested I could always state, "We have time."

So the comments on my blog the invisible woman have had me thinking about the nature of my  loneliness. Feeling alone and being alone are two very different states and in my case I think feeling alone is very much of my own making.

Although Ronnie had Parkinson's symptoms since he was at least sixteen he was twenty eight when he was diagnosed. I was twenty three, we had two young kids and to say we were shocked by the diagnosis....well you can imagine. Everyone dealt with the diagnosis in their own way and my way was to repeat to myself the mantra, "I can cope."