The OPQRSTU model? What is that?!

It’s been a minute.  How have you been? 

How has your life been?

Have you been taking steps to be better everyday? If yes, how has it been? If No, why? When are you going to start?

Think on these things, my friends.

While you are thinking on that, I thought to share how I have been doing and what’s been up with me lately;

Recently, I began listening to NF. Even right now, I am listening to Hope by NF. A very wholesome music. 

I had been thinking of the rawness of some of my writeups prior to learning of him and the songs he wrote. He is very bold and open about what is going on with him in a sort of dark way yet it communicates life.

Listening to some of his songs inspired me to keep on writing about my feelings. Why do all this? I do not fully understand but writing is an outlet for me. A very good outlet for a lot of things. In a sense, I also hope to communicate life, to communicate my feelings and encourage those going through the same things.

What’s the point of saying all this now? It’s not like anyone asked for this. Wellll, here we are again. Back to what I reinstated in the beginning, writing is one thing I know how to do well.

Letting go and release. 

Why a blog then?

God asked me to. 

Recently, I began something else too. I began listening to Dr Nicole LePera, a psychotherapist. I found out she had a couple of self healer videos on her YouTube channel which I only just discovered as well despite having followed on Twitter since last year. 

I have been learning of trauma and the way it shows up, how to heal. I have only listened to a few videos but they have been helpful. I also began to understand that in more ways than one, the word of God and my friends have been helping me break out of certain cycles, saw things that I had sort of surmounted. Sure, some of these things still mount up their ugly head and there needs to be the conscious rewiring at every point in time but then we are growing.

PS

 Being a Christian doesn’t cancel you from your feelings. It doesn’t mean you should negate them always. Feel them, understand where they are coming from, what their triggers are and what you can do to help structure and navigate through them.

Opqrstu model is something my lecturers taught me and it can be applied here too: 

O: Onset of the problem.

P: What provokes it or makes it better?

Q: Quality of the problem. Severe or mild.

R: Region; where does the pain occur. Trauma affects your body as well. 

S: Severity of the problem.

T: Duration; How long does it last? When does it start? 

U: Understanding; Understand the problem. Be understanding of your feelings and figure out ways you can navigate through it. 

With problem, you can use feelings.

I hope this helps.

Till next time.

~ Omokhuwa.