I visited my therapist this week to discuss why I am unable to motivate myself to exercise and we did some interesting work using visuals about how I feel about certain things. We were playing with pebbles and things (I wont go into it all right now as it would be a bit long to explain). It was interesting because I had a pebble for my motivation, but we hardly touched on that... we were working on a few other things about how I feel and it reminded me that there are always reasons why we feel and behave certain ways. Sometimes you have to go off at a tangent to get to the root of the problem (hence not really touching on the actual motivation this time). So without boring you with the recesses of my mind, it has given me something to think about for a while. Hopefully I can sift through these feelings and turn them into something which moves me closer to my motivation for sport and exercise (coz it was there once upon a time).
September Picture
I am a bit behind with posting my September picture which I have painted. I actually painted it within September, but forgot to post it here. This picture was more of a doodle than anything else, but I enjoyed doing it. The central circle I enjoyed as I like colours which are intersected with lines and I still like the bright colours at the moment. It was more of a 'colouring in' thing than anything particular artistic. The items around the side are roses and the actual flower heads themselves is in a style which I learnt when I was about 8 during a project about life on the canals of Birmingham. This style of painting is sometimes used on barges (obviously much better than my attempt). I added in the stems and leaves as my own kind of addition.
All in all it is a bit random and odd, but then again, I guess all paintings say something about their creator! Anyway, here it is:
October Picture of Me
I haven't yet taken the picture of my face yet, but will do so this week, when I get my act together. Our webcam has broken so have to sort out Matthew to take a photo of me.
I am very tired at the moment, so even little things like taking a photo of me seems a real effort. How pathetic! :-/
Signing off.
hey I love your painting hun! What are you doing with your paintings? Are you displaying them anywhere in your flat or just putting them away somewhere?
ReplyDeleteSounds like you're doing some good but hard work in your therapy. I hope the work you did this week will help you with being able to move forward in your goal of exercising and losing weight. Do you have a skipping rope? Skipping can be fun and you don't have to go anywhere to do it so you don't need lots of motivation to go out and do it you can do it in your own home and all that.
Anyway take care and keep going.
Alice x