Reframing Works
Reframing helps me see that I have choices – the possibility of different perspectives, different ways of looking and thinking. It's not a cure-all – it doesn't sprinkle the world with magic dust – but it does give me breathing space; time enough to step out from beneath the 'suffocating, disabling greyness'.
I've a folder full of the composite-images I've created in the last few months – some serious (tackling past medical trauma, for example), some about 'self' (including retirement), some more light-hearted (on that most British of subjects, the weather!) And this very variety gives me familiarity and confidence in the technique – reframing works!
Dreamy not Drippy
I'm not yet ready to share my reframing-images on medical-trauma (but be assured they're proving invaluable) so the two images on this page are on lighter topics. Firstly, 'Dreamy not Drippy' (above) reframes the weather – and helped me appreciate that a cold, dank November day was not wholly dreary and ugly.
In contrast, 'Water Now' (below) reframes the retirement issue and that potentially negative mindset which can accompany 'I used to be …' Yes, I used to be an engineer; yes, water and water-supply was a part of that (old) professional life – but water also plays an important part in my now-life.
Thus 'Water Now' is a 'story of now' – a reminder that I'm an active 60-something who has the good fortune to enjoy walking at beautiful 'water-full' sites throughout Yorkshire, such as Breary Marsh, Fewston Reservoir, St. Aidan's Nature Reserve, Bolton Abbey, Swinsty Reservoir etc.
Yes – reframing certainly does work!
Water Now