I’d rather be a comma than a full stop.
Chris Martin
I am beginning to dislike the label „therapist“ and „therapy“. And I’d say that I‘m not alone.
With a severe brain injury, life seems to turn into therapy.
Rather than moving, you have physiotherapy.
When you need a good chair or a bed, you go to an occupational therapist.
For relaxation, rather than doing mindfulness, you need a holistic therapist.
Even listening to or making music is facilitated by a music therapist, rather than your pals practising with you in your parents back room or garage.
Seriously?
No wonder so many people become tired and fed up with therapy – when all they want is what all of us want and need: movement, satisfying their curiosity and sense of adventure, enjoying memories and energy brought by good music, being in the moment and relax.
No wonder so many affected people run, if they can and are given the choice, when they hear the word therapy.
Nobody said it was easy. No one ever said it would be this hard. – I had Coldplay‘s Scientist on a loop last week. Not the original version but one Pádraig played with this fantastic musician, who works in An Saol as a music therapist, on Thursday.
Life is about Participation. Inclusion. Self-Determination. Equality. Empowerment. Company. Empathy. Respect. Caring. It’s about living in community. Taking responsibility for your action and your duty to care for others. It’s about being and staying healthy.
Life is challenging to all of us. It is also exciting, joyful, and loaded with happy moments. In different ways. We just have to open our eyes. Nobody said it was easy. And yes, at times it can be that hard.
Advent
Today is the first of Advent – A Time of Hope and New Beginnings.
The An Saol Foundation celebrates Advent this time of the year, every year.
This year in the Margaret Aylworth Centre in Glasnevin, just opposite the Met Office. – All Welcome!
Hospi-Tales 