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  3. Vol. 6 No. 1 (2023): Systemic practitioners living with serious illness and health conditions

This special issue is on the experiences of systemic practitioners who live with serious health conditions, life threatening or life shortening illnesses and how it affects their lives and practice.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.28963/6.1

Published: 23-04-2023

Editorials

Editorial: Systemic practitioners living with illness and health conditions

i-iii

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Articles

"Do I look pale?" A therapist's life-changing journey

Marilena Karamatsouki

1-10

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On being a therapist, a tutor, a researcher and just another community member

Gail Simon

11-16

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Failing health. Exploring tensions.

Leah Karen Salter

17-24

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Being and becoming

Smaro Markou

25-30

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Getting On With Pain

Judy McCarthy

31-35

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Burning Bright, Not Out! Therapist Well-Being in the Face of What We Face

Cathy Richardson Kineweskwêw

36-46

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“If Pain Could Speak, What Would It Say?” Re-lational Inter/Intra-rogation of sickle cell disease: A Poetic (Inquiry) Insight.

Peace Anumah

47-66

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Inching forward, lunging back. A duoethnographic poetic inquiry into practitioner experiences of health and ill health

Julia Evans, Leah Karen Salter

67-85

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Poetry

In the Clearing

Billy Hardy

86-87

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Holding space with insomnia

Shelby Hopland Guidi

88-91

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Dark days and vomit

Joanne Hipplewith

92-98

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Beyond Words

The grief diaries number 1. Screenprint on paper, octavo map book.

Elizabeth Day

99-100

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