Settling the Snow Globe
Carol Hickson
Founder & Author of The Resilience Template. Building healthier workplaces through wellbeing strategy, bespoke workshops, training, coaching & stress evaluations. Professional, directed mental health support.
We live in interesting times. It seems that the world has been shaken like a snow globe and nobody is quite sure where it's going to settle. There's a sense that the world is recalibrating, forcing us to address issues and reconsider our priorities. In some ways, the politicians have proved what intrinsically we have always known, when it comes to what is truly important only communities can help themselves.
Stress and anxiety are the same. I often use a snow globe metaphor to explain life before and after therapy. Often, even before the main issues are resolved there's a shift, an imperceptible change, a resettling of the ground on which we stand. Human beings are not all great fans of change. It unsettles us and makes us fearful of the future. What we often forget though is that change happens with or without our acquiescence. Look in a mirror and see the changes in your skin tone, your hair, your body shape; none of us are as we were when we first came into the world.
Therapy isn't about imposing a new environment on the existing backdrop of your life it's about subtly changing the status quo, so that over time a new healthier world opens up for you. Each time we shake the globe the pieces settle, but never exactly as before and over time, as we continue to shake the globe the improvements in our landscape appear.
Carol Hickson – Therapist, Life Coach and Trainer www.carolhickson.co.uk
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4 年Interesting read. I am a great believer that Mother Earth finds her way to rebalance.
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4 年Great read well done Carol Hickson for highlighting some salient points which reflect current issues
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4 年You made me think about how things are changing that we cannot control. I try not to worry about these things, it would help if the media would be quiet for a while!
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4 年Thank you, I love it because we often think that change has to be massive but it doesn’t! ??
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4 年That made me really think - you do feel that way sometimes - all the swirling and how much nicer the calm is