Counselling for the Thorns in Life
This is the story of a Scarlet Firethorn bush.
Why write such a story?
It is a memorial plant for me of a life story.
A story that I want to remember.
A story that teaches me how dreams don’t always work out.
A story that I need to live by the life lessons it represents.
The shrub is also a tool for showing clients that beauty and pain are often intermixed. The Firtehorn has long, sharp thorns,
It will remind me to handle clients gently. Their pain may not be visible under the display of the nice life they show to the world.
The Grief of a Broken Dream
A dream for our life is a good thing.
Striving to achieve personal satisfaction and accomplishment motivates us from childhood to our old age.
But what do we do when a dream falls apart and is impossible to put back together again?
Accepting the grand plan is over is the first step in starting over again.
Living with this grief for a while is important for allowing time to heal.
For a new purpose and hope, the old life of failed ambition must be put to death,
This blog outlines how to know that a dream has become a nightmare.
Suggestions are given to promote quiet, self-paced healing. How do we know when this has been achieved?
Finally, how are you to kill off the old self and start to rebuild a new you?