Where it hurts

Saturday, 2 May 2020

Why I stopped twittering

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A friend was surprised recently when she could no longer find me on Twitter - I was actually surprised that anyone noticed. I closed my acco...
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Tuesday, 7 April 2020

Unfinished business

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It's not that I don't finish things, but I do start an awful lot of things, all the time. I was reading a post by the famous author ...
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Saturday, 28 March 2020

Who knit ya?

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"Who knit ya?" is a phrase which hails from wondrous Newfoundland in Canada. Many of the people who settled there were Scots or Ir...
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Friday, 20 March 2020

Back on the wagon but don't forget the brakes

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It's been so long since I've written my blog that I may actually have forgotten what to do. But I have so many words, thoughts and e...
Saturday, 11 November 2017

What shall we remember?

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When I was a kid in primary school I remember volunteering to sell poppies for the Earl Haig fund. I knew it was important but in a typicall...
Saturday, 28 October 2017

Faith in humanity restored to factory settings

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So I had a bit of a wake up call last week. I realised that much of what I write about is on the darker side. Part of me thrives on that, bu...
Tuesday, 10 October 2017

Raw - avoiding the pain of grief and loss

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Someone asked me recently why my blog posts had become so sparse over the past year or so. I humbly and finally admit that it's a classi...
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I am one of these odd creatures who inhabits very different worlds. As a journalist of 22 years, I can't and never will quite let go of writing, but I retrained as a psychologist and have worked in mental health for the past 16 years. So I now go by the title Dr Marie Murphy and endure the regular derision (and very occasional respect) of my many journalist friends. I am interested in the things people are afraid to say out loud and what lurks in the spaces in between. As a Counselling Psychologist my professional and personal identities are interwoven - at least it's an attempt to bring all of me into the work I do and to recognise that work will change me as a person because every encounter with another changes me. "I am part of all I have met" Alfred Lord Tennyson
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