Covid 19 blog #2 will it bring us together or tear us apart?
An occasional lite blog reflecting on the impact of the virus from a therapeutic setting.
This week has been the longest year of my life. Or at least that’s the way it feels; things have happened so fast it has spun my head round. I’ve gone from having a thriving mindful based counselling practice to very little very quickly. And I’m better off than a lot.
But it has not gone so quickly that I have not had the chance to learn from my couples. Today I delivered a counselling session to a couple who were struggling with different ideas of parenting in a newly formed stepfamily.
They were at loggerheads and we were traying to establish shared boundaries and connections, but for two sessions now there was little agreement. In the session today I reviewed our progress (I tend to feel, to an extent, part of the Team effort here) and what we might focus on. “Coronavirus” one said, and I thought she might mean how we might do future sessions, or if one of them had caught it.
I began to feel a little anxious, but there was more: “after this week, its been a long, long week” (I nodded and felt like saying OH YEAH) “so…do you want to say?” I enquired. Her partner leaned towards her in his seat and smiled. “This virus. We have to put our differences to one side; my son, and her daughter are now not at school and we have no choice, we have pulled together and put our petty differences to one side. There are more important things, and we need to get motivated. So we have”
Go figure!
