This work is a narrative of personal
experiences, thoughts and understandings that occurred while
the author was a graduate student in counselling psychology.
What the author came to understand about both the art of
counselling and being an individual in pain is explored.
While learning to become a counsellor, the author
experienced the significant life event of going through a
divorce. In this work the author explores the influences,
connections and insights that she experienced and attempts
to connect how her struggles with instability and her shift
toward a more grounded perspective were shaped by both the
academic and practical content of the graduate studies
program she was attending. The experience of this personal
distress is presented over the time frame of three seasons,
combining both an individual process of therapeutic writing
with an attempt to connect the outer world of academic
learning with the inner world of being
human.