Hello, everyone. I hope you all are keeping yourself safe and well. Adelaide where I live now has been hot and cold, the weather changing all the time. There were bushfires relatively close to where I live now and we had to keep the radio on for the updates until the late night. It was scary. Next morning, we smelt something burnt strongly after the fresh rain. As far as the covid situation is concerned, some cities in Australia have been back to snap lockdown and come back t

Happy 2021! I hope you all had the peaceful and restful Christmas and new year celebrations wherever in the world you are. It has been hot and cool in Adelaide for the past few weeks as summer has arrived. Fortunately, South Australia has experienced the ease on the covid-related restrictions before Christmas while we live in a fear of lockdown situation at any time if any cluster may happen again. We are certainly living in an uncertain time. In this first newsletter of this

Good day! Greetings from South Australia! The cold weather unexpectedly greeted us since the beginning of October although spring has arrived here with blooming flowers that enrich our sights. In this newsletter, I would like to reflect on my experience of quarantine and elaborate it to the issue of Hikikomori (socially drawn). As explained in the last newsletter, quarantine was mandatory for anyone coming to Australia at the hotel for two weeks. We were not allowed to step o

Good bye to London and Hello to Adelaide Hello, everyone! Greetings from Down Under! Yes, I am finally here in Adelaide. After flying for 20 hours with the 15 hour transit in between, we were taken to the mandatory 14-day quarantine straight after we landed in Australia. I am still feeling really surreal about having emptied the London flat and made a huge move to South Australia. In this edition, I would like to reflect on my goodbyes about my London life and talk a little b

Hello, everyone! I hope you all have been well and safe. I know some parts of the world have been lifting the restrictions of lockdown while some areas have gone back to lockdown again. In the UK in the last few weeks we have seen drastic changes in our daily life including wearing masks, reopening pubs and restaurants and so on. In the last newsletter, I mentioned children’s mental health affected by Covid-19. This time I would like to think further about children’s wellbein

Hello, everyone. I hope you all have been keeping safe and well. We, in the UK will see a further ease of lockdown from the beginning of July; I personally appreciate that playgrounds will be open again which is so important for my own, but all children who need to play! In this newsletter, I would like to draw your attention on children’s mental health related to the pandemic. We all must support young people and children’s wellbeing and reassure their mental health in this

Hello, everyone. I hope you all have been doing well wherever you are. The U.K. has been in lockdown for 11 weeks now. However, we have been gradually experiencing a “new normal” as the lockdown measurement has been lifted up. In this newsletter, I would like to talk about “ending”. I learnt the significance of “ending” in my therapy training. Ending in a therapeutic relationship is vital and can be painful for clients and the therapist. As a therapist, I start mentioning abo

Hello, everyone. I hope you have been staying safe and well. In the U.K., we are now into the 8th week of lockdown and it seems to me that we sort of now got used to the idea of social distancing. In this newsletter, I would like to talk about young people in a mental health institution in relation to what I am experiencing now. I have been struggling to find a theme to write about. My mind has been so blank that my thoughts seem to have stopped working since a couple of week