Back again - such long gaps

My desk if finally cleared and I can get back to this research. Much has got in the way such as conferences in July, daughter's visit in August from Melbourne, not to mention the activity by the lawyers representing the brethren earlier in the year. The brethren's activity at the Cardiff conference was totally inappropriate. I did not know they were there. I gave a paper based on my quantitative research and it seems two of them, at least, were in the audience. After the paper one of them handed sheets out containing excerpts of a critique written by a psychologist of my research - since he had only seen the questionnaires and the information sheet but not the methodology or the analysis I am not sure how he thought he could write a critique. The critique was light and trivial but the excerpts were taken out of context so that opinions became facts about me. Not good and not sensible of them.

So now I am reading about narrative enquiry. This is for a different study - and I repeat this blog is my personal reflections, I am writing as me the human being, my thoughts and feelings, not as me the professional. This research has little to do with my professional activities such as providing therapy for a variety of clients and research supervision for other doctoral students.  It may in the future have an impact but at the moment it is a personal journey I am on, seeking to understand the experience of being brought up in and leaving the Hales Exclusive Brethren. I can never understand definitively of course, this is not a 'hard' science but I can move further along the journey all researchers in this field are on towards the understanding of cult member's experiences as children and on leaving.

But I am struggling at the moment with philosophy - so many words that I don't quite get still like epistemology, ontology, constructionism, post structuralism etc etc groan.

So expect to see me more often here and please do comment and encourage me- it has been a difficult tough journey due to a number of factors.