We all have our own stories, chapters laid down from our earliest years, each a narrative web of intertwined and interconnected experiences - and our perception of them - complete with stories between stories, and stories within stories. Without being aware of it, the stories take on a life of their own, they become our...Continue reading
Who Cares About the Carers?
Who Cares About the Carers? Well I do for one, how about you? The is a story about carers, yes, and also about challenges, compassion, cognitive dissonance, creativity and change. A big part of what I’ve done over the past twenty years or so involved the delivery of training and workshops, primarily working in and...Continue reading
More Than A Mental Illness
Hello, my name is Glyn Butcher and I’ve been involved with mental health services for over 27 years as a carer, and for 15 years as a service user. I could tell you lots about living with a mental illness and about the very limited life I lived as a result. A life determined by...Continue reading
Erin: From Lost in a Story to Living her Life
Erin took a long, deep breath and closed her eyes as she once again started out on an attempt at meditation. In main part she was driven to quieten or even stop the seemingly ever present and occasionally overwhelming stream of internal chatter. But as was often the case the noise only seemed to grow...Continue reading
Seek First to Understand then to be Understood
A couple of weeks after returning from the long walk across Spain I bumped into an old friend who I hadn’t seen for a while. After a brief chat about things in general the topic of conversation came around to travelling and my most recent adventure. I like to go off wandering whenever I can...Continue reading
Gone for a Walk
Probably not my greatest adventure but most definitely the one that left the biggest impression. The Camino de Santiago was one of those things I'd heard about once. Something that for some reason resonated, stuck with me, and as a result ended up on my ‘one day' list. Do you have a ‘one day’ list?...Continue reading