My Cat Likes to Hide In Boxes.
One of my favourite children’s books is called ‘My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes’. On each page cats can be found doing exciting things - except ‘MY cat’ who likes to hide in boxes. ‘MY cat’ feels comfortable hidden in his box. Most of us are the same as ‘MY cat’. Our boxes are all different. What does your box look like? 🐱📦
“Stories are like boxes we build around ourselves to give us structure, identity, security and familiarity. We are attached to them even when they are traumatic and painful, because they feel so much part of us. Although breaking the box open would give an immense freedom, the resistance is great since outside that box we feel unprotected and so different from who we believe we are, that we desperately keep it intact. However, stories also limit us; if they grow too big, they suffocate us, or if the stories grow too big they squash us and prevent us from being who we really are.”
Through professional supervision, my supervisor has helped me look up, step outside my box, consider my professional life from very different perspectives and expand my potential.
Law can be a challenging and rewarding career. However, no area of law is immune from heightened emotions, stress, and responsibility. All practice areas of law take their toll and are manifested to some degree, at some point, by the lawyer.
Deirdre May, originally from Scotland, is an admitted and practising solicitor in rural NSW, Australia of nearly 20 years She is also a trained professional supervisor for lawyers of all ages, stages, and practice areas. Your ability to participate in supervision is not confined by geography with the options of online or telephone supervision as well as face to face supervision.
✅ Want to know more? DM or email deirdre.eaglesupervision@gmail.com ✅
Sources - Lynley Dodd & Eve Sutton (1974) My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes Puffin Publishers & Jochen Encke Breaking the Box: Supervision
A challenge to Free Ourselves, Chapter 1 of Passionate Supervision (2008), Kingsley Publishers.
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