I spend a lot of time with children and young people questioning:
1: There is only one path in life, the straight path to happiness ๐โโ๏ธ๐คจ (e.g. GCSEs then โAโ levels then a degree then a job you work to be promoted in and so on).
I enjoy sharing the idea:
1: There is a wibbly wobbly path in life ๐, a non-straight path, a path that takes many twists and turns but one on which you may discover lots of happy along the way ๐.
Today marks a lovely twist and turn on my wibbly wobbly path ๐. Counselling and Psychotherapy is not my first career, it came later. Initially, I studied Drama and Theatre Arts in Birmingham and then began a career as a Stage Manager in the theatre ๐ญ. I absolutely loved it ๐ฅฐ. But, as with all wibbly wobbly paths, change was required; health issues presented quite a big wobble and demanding theatre industry hours were no longer possible. An opportunity to retrain and so began my new path as a Counsellor and Psychotherapist ๐.
Today, I am back in a theatre ๐ญ. Working with the brilliant Young Storyhouse StoryhouseLive to offer them a Worry Wizard Funshop and to begin working on our upcoming animation โTogether not aloneโ ๐ฅ, generously funded by Cheshire Community Foundation. Younger me would be delighted with where my path has taken me. I wish she could have known about today. One of the challenges with the wibbly wobbly path is believing, when you are faced with a big wobble โ๏ธ, that good times lie ahead.
Hereโs to the wibbly wobbly path ๐. May we all spend time telling the story of ours to the children we know ๐. Together, we can dispel the oftentimes troublesome myth of the straight path to happiness, Amyโจ
๐ท- unknown.
(I didnโt find time to post this on the day, so leaving it here now ๐ ๐ )
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