Training and personal development.

I’ve felt a bit lost after my degree had finished. The kids do definitely keep me busy but I feel a little underwhelmed that I am not doing something for myself. I am a volunteer and currently only do 2 hours a month with a local charity that supports women suffering from domestic abuse. I’ve been there for 5 years now and I’m really passionate about the women we support. With being a volunteer comes a perk with training. I’m very fortunate to have access to a lot of training, and I’ve done quite a bit in the last couple of weeks:

  • Graded care profile

  • Eating Disorders

  • Mental Health and Wellbeing

  • Covid 19 Psychological First Aid

  • Neuroscience and professional development

  • Self awareness and personal development

  • Resilience

  • Growth mindset

  • Dealing with stressful situations

I have just booked another course to do on proof reading and editing with the aim of hopefully being freelance and working from home. Because, actually I can not see any way forward at the moment than to work from home. Charlie’s needs are so unpredictable and he needs a level of security that means I can only raise him if I can be fully committed to his needs and that includes being able to drop everything so that I can go to school if needed, attend meetings and reviews, appointments and therapies and that is increasingly hard when you have a commitment to work and need to be present in an office or in a workplace where personal calls and time out is limited. I adore working and I really miss it, I currently only work on a Saturday when Charlie goes to his dad’s at the moment it’s enough and gives us the right work/life balance which means I can attend to Charlie and commit to his needs. However, moving forward one day a week is not sustainable so I’m hoping to get something that would mean I can work at home and around Charlie.

I had wanted to start an online shop so that this website could pay for itself. There are monthly fees for this website, I know there are other free websites but this one suited me, suited the vision I had for the website and suited the overall journey we are on. Maybe I can still manage to do that, or find another way through advertisement however, I didn’t really want to flood this with advertisements as it would take away the originality of this page.

It’s Sunday and I feel I’ve got lots of blogs to catch up on. I might start a new habit being #blogdaysunday. But with the way life is, nothing ever goes to plan. Like today, and yesterday and Friday we should of visited National Trust sites but we’ve not managed to get out on any of the days we had booked, which is frustrating but that is just the way our lives go sometimes.

Anyway, lots to do. Blogs don’t write themselves.

Georgina x