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15.01.2022 The winds of change are blowing a gale and we are all staring at each other in disbelief. We have become the worldwide ’neither here nor there’ crowd! http://www.nicoleconner.com.au//2020-the-year-the-world-h/ #Liminality #Change #NarrativePractice

14.01.2022 When our mantra changes from ‘Just be Yourself’ to ‘What do I value?’, we begin to construct our life and stories in ways that align themselves to our hopes and dreams. http://www.nicoleconner.com.au//just-be-yourself-its-bloo/ #ShitThingsWeThinkOrSay #Values

14.01.2022 We owe no one an explanation for the tears that may fall for whatever reason...Grief is a 'normal' part of life. http://www.nicoleconner.com.au//grief-needs-no-justificat/ #NarrativeTherapy #Stories #Loss #Grief

14.01.2022 ...the world is full of shadows and full of light and that there are seasons when we will travel through what feels like an eternity of dark valleys, but if we begin to listen to our hearts, our sometimes very broken hearts, they remind us of the many stories that make up our lives. https://www.nicoleconner.com.au//life-is-full-of-broken-h/ #heartbroken #narrativetherapy #definingstories

12.01.2022 Dear Mugwump Reader, a friend recently reminded me of this blog post and how relevant it is in a world that has been gate-crashed & hijacked by COVID-19. So here is a repost some may find it helpful...

10.01.2022 Hannah's story is a poignant reminder of what people face through a mental health crisis, it is also a reminder of a person's skill in harnessing resilience, protest, and hope... "And in 2018 I began some of my deepest workings yet; through the project Sincerely Survivor. This work is an extension of my own personal recovery from mental health and the Victorian mental health system; acting as an invitation for people with mental health lived experience to find healing through... the arts, peer support, and storytelling. Over the next couple of years, I would run a number of artist residencies in abandoned psychiatric spaces in regional Victoria." https://www.nicoleconner.com.au//the-dance-that-lives-wit/ #mentalhealth #SincerleySurvivor #melbournefringe #narrativetherapy

09.01.2022 I am not here to argue with these findings or undermine the virtues of forgiveness. Rather, my aim is to raise awareness of the shame and guilt that people experience when the ‘tribe’ demands their forgiveness or shames them into forgiving. http://www.nicoleconner.com.au/fam/weaponising-forgiveness/... #Forgive #WeaponisingForgiveness #NarrativeTherapy See more

09.01.2022 Will we go through another round of outrage, feigned apologies, political bullshit by infantile demagogues, religious feel-good sermons, social media memes so everyone knows about our outrageand then nothing? Please, Please, Please http://www.nicoleconner.com.au/politi/please-please-please/... #GeorgeFloyd #ICantBreathe #Racism #History

09.01.2022 Having empathy means our heart goes out to another person in joy or pain. But for empaths, it goes much further. We actually feel other people’s emotions, energy, and physical symptoms in our own bodies, without the usual defenses that most people have. https://www.nicoleconner.com.au//empaths-and-global-pande/ #empath #grief #empathy #definingstories #narrativetherapy

09.01.2022 Life Atlas Therapy can assist an individual (or community) to reclaim the key to the filing cabinet that holds the memories that speak to their preferred sense of self and identity.

07.01.2022 Sometimes I poet...but I rarely share them :) This Celebratory Prose is dedicated to all those whose Much-Too-Muchness has come under attack. https://www.nicoleconner.com.au//celebrating-too-much-muc/

06.01.2022 Your life comes to you like a wise and faithful friend offering you insight and counsel. The keys you are looking for are not in the life of another they are within you. Listen to your life. https://www.nicoleconner.com.au/spirit/listen-to-your-life/ #life #lifetherapy #definingstories

05.01.2022 I especially want to acknowledge all those who are reading this who don’t have a ’normal’ modern Christmas story. Your place and space and story are as valid as anyone else’s. ‘Normal’ can be a bully and sometimes our Christmas story is a sad emoji. http://www.nicoleconner.com.au//what-is-your-christmas-st/ #Christmas #narrative

05.01.2022 In the weeks, months, and years to come, Australians in their various communities, need to be aware of the unseen crisis that will continue in the lives of many of their family, friends, colleagues, and the stranger they encounter. http://www.nicoleconner.com.au/family-fr/the-unseen-crisis/

04.01.2022 "Disdain attempts to visit those who are survivors of trauma. It tells stories of a child that was ‘weak’ or ‘helpless’ in times of crisis. Disdain holds a victim-blaming narrative and when it dominates our life stories we begin to distance ourselves from that ‘weak’ and ‘helpless’ child. In a sense, we abandon ourselves in our past." https://www.nicoleconner.com.au/family-friends-/loving-you/ #love #innerchild #narrativetherapy #definingstories

03.01.2022 So what do we do when a Global Crisis bashes in our door and interrupts our peaceful lives? We respond by unleashing a virus of our own... http://www.nicoleconner.com.au//when-global-crisis-comes-/ #COVID19 #Pandemic #Love

01.01.2022 You have a compass in your hand, a way of deriving meaning out of life that is linked to your values and what you hold precious. http://www.nicoleconner.com.au/spi/the-compass-in-our-hand/ #NarrativeTherapy #DefiningStories #Values