As I return to more regular writing and posting on my website, which is helping me to regain my own inner equilibrium, and sense of purpose, as the narrative therapy aspect of journalling has been restored. Every day, I continue to read others words using the various disability techniques now required for reading, and for…
I’m adding the latest e-newsletter from the Dulwich Centre, highlighting the many events and activities about Narrative Therapy coming to Adelaide next year. I recently did a 5 day introductory Narrative Therapy course with them, and was surprised to find people from all over the world had flown in especially to attend, from countries including…
Yesterday in a practice session of one of the interviewing techniques of Narrative Therapy, I was interviewed about a recent problem in my life. I elected to discuss the impact of losing my driver’s license, and unearthed a mini maelstrom of feelings I had not given much thought to previously. I’d thought the emotional burden…
Fear is a constant companion of most people living with a diagnosis of dementia. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about fear and dementia, and its impact when a person is diagnosed with dementia, or living with the symptoms of dementia. In the article Fear drives shadowing of Alzheimer’s caregivers written by Angela Lunde, it…
I’m reviewing a method of research called Autoethnography, which I am leaning about and thinking about, and whether my blog is a form of it, in a non-academic sort of way. Wikipedia says Autoethnography is a form of self-reflection and writing that explores the researcher’s personal experience and connects this autobiographical story to wider cultural, political, and…
The following is a reflection I wrote after my first piece of writing done for a university writing course, writing about a place, and I chose to write about the new place I was in, living with dementia, which ended up being published: “I have chosen my newly diagnosed dementia as a place to write…
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