Love day today and at university we had this seminar about ‘loving’ our research…:-). I shall admit that doing a PhD is like having a partner, in a love and hate relationship almost…there are moments that u are inspired and ‘in love’ with the whole thing and other times that it all gets too overwhelming and you nearly feel like throwing everything out of the window…i see that i develop ‘compassion’ towards myself through the research process and ofter the Thesis gets personified into a ‘being’ that i relate to in different ways. I see that in other PhD students also when we talk about that process which is actually comforting … Read more »

As i have been preparing a 6 month progress report that is due at our School’s administrator, i realised how much i have done really! It has been a hard period in terms of finding the partcipants, sometimes having so much travelling involved, also due to all the emotional responses that this topic triggers for me…i feel i have had excellent support from supervision and peers though, i thank all those involved…so, this is just a quick line to say well done to myself for what i have achieved so far! and also try to be kind to myself for the challenging time ahead with the analysis and writing.

I attended the CRG meeting earlier today and wrote down an interesting quote related to narrative inquiry. Here it is:

“When the story of our life doesn’t make sense to us, we need to explore alternatives in identity…to fashion a new myth” by McAdams, 1993

It’s been weeks since i have written an entry here and there are a numver of reasons (life has taken over, am busy with personal issues, part of me is resisting the heuristic process, i had some holiday time away from technology, national tragedy with fires in my homeland etc). However, i just wanted to say hello to my blog and promise will come back when the PhD process (and my writing) is ready to flow again…soon