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Felicity Chapman
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I feel alive when I write. Writing wakes me up to the internal and external in a way that is absolutely intoxicating.
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Counselling and Psychotherapy with Older People in Care: A Support Guide
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Connected
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published
2016
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3 editions
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Excerpt #1 from novel 'Connected'
Chapter One: Air
EARTH. SLOWLY IT MOVES and gently turns us around. A swirling ball of colours against the black beyond. A home. The atmosphere holds us, gives us life until we breathe our last. Until we are transported to the ‘other side’, where spirits roam. Where we can watch over those we love.
There she is, half asleep, she stands in front of the dresser, still unaware of what is to become. Her Read more of this blog post »
EARTH. SLOWLY IT MOVES and gently turns us around. A swirling ball of colours against the black beyond. A home. The atmosphere holds us, gives us life until we breathe our last. Until we are transported to the ‘other side’, where spirits roam. Where we can watch over those we love.
There she is, half asleep, she stands in front of the dresser, still unaware of what is to become. Her Read more of this blog post »
“If you have ever felt slightly nauseous walking through an aged care facility, puckered your face against a smell, observed a grown woman clutching a dolly with desperation, felt a flood of melancholy as death fills your view – then you are in a perfect position to be a supportive psychotherapist for those whose lives are peppered with this everyday.”
― Counselling and Psychotherapy with Older People in Care: A Support Guide
― Counselling and Psychotherapy with Older People in Care: A Support Guide
“It is understandable if you are struggling to reconcile images of a smooth moving Justin Timberlake singing, “I’m bringing sexy back…” with the experience of working in aged care! Sexy is often everything that aged care is not. But by using the word “sexy” I am not referring to the high octane experience of being intimate with someone. Who knows though, your older adult clients may well want to talk about such things! How senior friendly to encourage this? What I am referring to is bringing the spice or pizzazz associated with respect back to our Western society that appears to have lost its way in valuing seniors.”
― Counselling and Psychotherapy with Older People in Care: A Support Guide
― Counselling and Psychotherapy with Older People in Care: A Support Guide
“Harold lies in the darkened room with curtains drawn. It is one thirty in the afternoon and his lunch tray seems to almost sigh at the untouched food. His words are soft and not many. He listens, looking down, as you speak about concerned staff referring him to a counselling program – you are here to see if he is interested. “I’m fine,” he says, in a rare attempt to meet your eye, and it is clear to you that he is not. He is 88 years old and five months ago his right leg had to be amputated due to complications with diabetes. Immediately after, he was transferred to an aged care facility an hours drive from his wife Elizabeth, two years his senior, who could no long care for him at home. A month after that he was transferred to this facility; his wife can now more easily visit him. But, he tells you, he does not know why she bothers. “There’s no point,” he says, and you wonder if he is also referring to being alive.”
― Counselling and Psychotherapy with Older People in Care: A Support Guide
― Counselling and Psychotherapy with Older People in Care: A Support Guide
