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a year ago
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The last few weeks have been...well....If I wrote everything down and sent it to a publisher they'd send it back saying it's too outlandish, that amount of stuff cant possibly happen in such a short space of time.
But you forget Mr fake publisher, this is my life we're talking about here, and as we've seen so far this year, this year has been a bit of a wild one.
I went for a job interview at a university on Friday early afternoon and a little over 12 hours later by 5am Saturday morning several police officers (actually there were 11 in total, one very small woman police officer talking to me and the rest like 7 foot blokes) were clambering over my house, including rummaging through my nursery. Life comes at you fast sometimes. (No one was hurt and no one was doing anything illegal, it was actually me who called the police LOL I just wasnt expecting so many of them to turn up, musta been a slow news night in my area cause i think the whole precinct came to my house)
I hadnt expected the neighbours to be up at that point so the local whastapp group had a million pics of all the police cars thinking they were doing some kinda dawn raid on our house....Which I guess is kinda what it musta looked like from a curtain twitchers point of view. SO when we went to the pub on saturday night even the bar staff were like what the heck was happening at your house? We dodged all the questions which only drove them into more of a frenzy wanting to know. It was kinda intense. I can't really go into the ins and out of what it was all about other than I got to offload on my therapist on monday and she was proper like "Wow that is A LOT, how are you coping?" and I think that might have been a rhetorical question. Im not sure how i'm coping. I just...Am? Sometimes when you're stuck in a situation you have little control over, you just hafta ride that wave, and thats very much how a lot of this year has felt like, focus on the things I do have control over and just get on with the stuff i dont have control over.
My Mum has been released from the mental hospital as of Thursday last week and I think she's mostly doing okay. She's a long way from being well again but she's def improving now and managing her condition a day at a time. So that's super positive at the moment.
I also started taking a short course in CBT (Thats Cognitive behavioural therapy for all those kinksters out there thinking that came a bit outta left field for Star) because Gestalt Therapy is a really long term kinda of therapy and a lot of the placements only offer 10-12 week sessions so i thought if i could get some extra tools in my belt to use to maybe help clients reach a goal in a shorted time frame...its not really what I wanna be doing as i want long term work but gotta adapt to the challenge.
And I got the job I went for the interview for on Friday. So Come mid September this squiggle is gonna be a proper trainee therapists with real people to therapize. Exciting and terrifying in equal measures.
Ive also started sketching one page of shine out a day (just the sketch) so by the time my placement starts in September i should have a whole years worth of pages planned out, and that'll take some of the pressure off what i need to do this coming year as the sketch part is always the bit that takes the longest. SO im feeling quite productive on that front.
But you forget Mr fake publisher, this is my life we're talking about here, and as we've seen so far this year, this year has been a bit of a wild one.
I went for a job interview at a university on Friday early afternoon and a little over 12 hours later by 5am Saturday morning several police officers (actually there were 11 in total, one very small woman police officer talking to me and the rest like 7 foot blokes) were clambering over my house, including rummaging through my nursery. Life comes at you fast sometimes. (No one was hurt and no one was doing anything illegal, it was actually me who called the police LOL I just wasnt expecting so many of them to turn up, musta been a slow news night in my area cause i think the whole precinct came to my house)
I hadnt expected the neighbours to be up at that point so the local whastapp group had a million pics of all the police cars thinking they were doing some kinda dawn raid on our house....Which I guess is kinda what it musta looked like from a curtain twitchers point of view. SO when we went to the pub on saturday night even the bar staff were like what the heck was happening at your house? We dodged all the questions which only drove them into more of a frenzy wanting to know. It was kinda intense. I can't really go into the ins and out of what it was all about other than I got to offload on my therapist on monday and she was proper like "Wow that is A LOT, how are you coping?" and I think that might have been a rhetorical question. Im not sure how i'm coping. I just...Am? Sometimes when you're stuck in a situation you have little control over, you just hafta ride that wave, and thats very much how a lot of this year has felt like, focus on the things I do have control over and just get on with the stuff i dont have control over.
My Mum has been released from the mental hospital as of Thursday last week and I think she's mostly doing okay. She's a long way from being well again but she's def improving now and managing her condition a day at a time. So that's super positive at the moment.
I also started taking a short course in CBT (Thats Cognitive behavioural therapy for all those kinksters out there thinking that came a bit outta left field for Star) because Gestalt Therapy is a really long term kinda of therapy and a lot of the placements only offer 10-12 week sessions so i thought if i could get some extra tools in my belt to use to maybe help clients reach a goal in a shorted time frame...its not really what I wanna be doing as i want long term work but gotta adapt to the challenge.
And I got the job I went for the interview for on Friday. So Come mid September this squiggle is gonna be a proper trainee therapists with real people to therapize. Exciting and terrifying in equal measures.
Ive also started sketching one page of shine out a day (just the sketch) so by the time my placement starts in September i should have a whole years worth of pages planned out, and that'll take some of the pressure off what i need to do this coming year as the sketch part is always the bit that takes the longest. SO im feeling quite productive on that front.
And honestly? Proud of you for keeping it together as much as you are. Hold onto that.
SUPER happy for you getting the job you interviewed for! I truly hope you find yourself in a comfortable place through it!
also cbt is obviously short for Cabbage beans and tomatoes, it is an interesting soup.
Here's hoping things calm down, or at least your stress level manages to get lower.
Wishing you the best of success in your job and further learning! You're doing amazingly well, I'm sure, and this will only strengthen your success. <3
But I'm surviving.
There's something to be said about being emotionally flatlined for a few years.
It's been coming in a clutch to survive the last few months... for better or worse.
But yeah, I totes hear you if Life Happening™ could stop.
is
a lot
@_@ got my head spinng.
🫂
Good luck with the new job, I imagine it's in demand more than ever, and a good way to round out your experience.
I know that's tip of the iceberg for what your and your partner have had to deal with this year, so it's amazing and I hope you all come up smelling like roses.
Sincerely,
Another parasocial fan
Fantastic news about the job. CBT is a great tool to have in your kit as a therapist. We're aqll behind you ^^
But on the flipside, for what it's worth, CogBT has really been helpful, for me at least, so from my perspective it's a very useful and good tool even in the short term and can be used to really help people so try not to worry about being less effective with it or anything!
You can do this and I'm sure I speak for everyone when I say we all believe in you :3
Good luck on the new job. ♡
Also glad to hear your mom is doing better and you got the job. I tell ya, this year has been a weird roller coaster for me as well.
With a bit more thought; the nursery without a child might have raised some concerns with the first two officers, thus leading to more officers.
I kid of course, sounds like a very stressful situation glad you made it through intact. This journey towards this job has been so delightful to hear about thanks so much for opening up and sharing with us.
The way it was worded at first sounded like the university raised suspicions or something... but if it was you who called them, to search your house? Did you think someone was hiding there or something?
Congrats on the new job either way! Glad to hear your therapy training is paying off! :D
Imagining the police picking through my stuff - Yikes! So 2nd congrats there on doing what you found was right and necessary and seeing this chain of events through!
May you be blessed with a couple of boring weeks where everything happens the way it should for a change.