Just more of my ramblings...
I can't believe it has nearly been a year since I last wrote something. It's been quite a year, and I have learned more than I ever could have imagined since moving to Dublin in July 2018. Life has been a whirlwind lately, full of joys, heartache, challenges, gains and losses, positives and negatives, good and poor health, and being inundated with knowledge of the many social complexities that come with being a social worker in a beautiful but broken world. When people think about what it means to be a social worker I would argue it is most common for them to think about the challenges a social worker faces on the job, the difficult to solve dilemmas and potentially dangerous situations that may be faced. However, what I have found to be the most difficult of all, well beyond finding solutions for situations clients find themselves in, is the countless dichotomies faced in the day to day. The lack of a black and white world view due to the ever-growin...
