1) Not my journey YOURS.
In what I hope to be a series of short articles for a Shropshire based magazine I hope to briefly explore and illuminate numerous areas in the battle against Mental ILL Health stigma. Please enter the discussion by leaving your comments. My articles will pull very few punches and are written in order to nurture a healthier understanding of mental ill health in our society. My heartfelt desire is to normalise conversation on the matter. I willingly talk about my own battles in an effort to break down other people's fears of open discussion. So who am I? I've run my own counselling practice since 2012 and as well as being honoured to have helped many clients I too have experienced my own demons. But the first rule of counselling is that everyone experiences issues in their own way. This is known as Phenomenology and greater awareness of it's existence would drastically reduce the amount of judgement and ill feeling throughout the world. So fi...