Checking in with myself
My counsellor is on holiday this week and I'm away next week, so I'll be missing 3 sessions. She advised me to take some time to check in with myself and see how I am doing, as I usually would with her. Because I find that if i just think it, the thoughts stay in my head, I'll write them down here. That approach forces me to be honest with the people who care enough to read this, as if you ask me directly I am likely to say "I'm OK". It has been an up and down couple of weeks. Well, when isn't it? Life has been ticking along as it does, we are mostly into our groove now, Oliver and I. It's the school holidays and we are enjoying spending time together. Considering in the early weeks the weekends felt long and daunting, this is great news. We have had a couple of events that hilighted Mark's absence. Our 15th wedding anniversary passed by quietly, because I made sure it did. I took Oliver out for the day and kept busy. I braced myself for a