Dear Emily:

It’s February! I don’t know how it sneaked around the corner without my seeing it when I’ve been making a conscious effort every day to stay in the moment and to live each moment for what it brings. On second thought, maybe that’s exactly why I didn’t see it coming since the present moment is what was occupying me.

I feel I’m on a count down now. I’m about to head out for my last two weeks in class. Then I will be immersed in my three week project followed by my two week exam, this while simultaneously trying to juggle what my next step will look like around the earning a living thing. There is much to do, much to coordinate and lots of new things to embrace as I inch my way forward.

By the way, I got an A+ in my last practicum where we worked with an Integrated Theory with our clients. I am proud of that one, perhaps more than any other mark as this Integrative Approach is what forms the base for the psychological framework I will use as a therapeutic model.

This Abuse and Domestic Violence course we are in now is stirring up a lot of stuff for people as mostly everyone has been affected by it in some way shape or form in their life. And if they haven’t, they know someone who has. There is so much to consider when we start to look at the cause and effects of abuse and why any of it ever happens in the first place.

This weekend I worked on my first assignment which is to design a support group exercise which I would use to help identify a client’s internal core worth and one that will assist the clients in rising beyond tragic circumstances within a group setting. I’ve put one together put I’m not sure I like it yet. I will let it sit for a couple of days and come back to it and see how it feels then.

The other assignment we have to do, which will also count as our final exam, is to write a 2 or 3 page paper on one of the questions we have been given. I haven’t started that one yet except to sift through the questions and figure out what I am going to write on. I’ve chosen to do the following: Choose one of the “keys to overcoming sexual abuse” and discuss how you would use them in a case example. Explain why you feel this key is so critical in returning to good health. I have my own bend on this – my own beliefs about the key to overcoming and moving on and I’m thinking this is probably where my paper will lead me.

Well, I must get a move on otherwise I won’t have time to walk to school. Not walk from here of course – that would take me forever but to walk from my sister’s place. I don’t remember if I ever told you or not but most days I park where she lives, which is about 12 blocks away from my school, and I walk in. My purpose is two fold. I save on the parking costs and I get to fluff up my buns before and after sitting in class for four hours and before and after sitting in my car for an hour each way.

Have a great day with whatever it is you are busy with these days.

Writefully Yours
Annette