Personal Narrative: My Uncle And Its Impact On My Life

Looking back to my childhood I would say the person that positively impacted my life was my uncle. Growing up I was the most closest to my mother 's family side due to several reasons one being language issues since my dad 's family side speak different languages I have a hard time relating to them. Even if I do not get to see my uncle in daily basis every time he came to visit me, he tends to make me feel I was special person just for being myself. Even if he recently passed away due to murder, the person he was continuing to affect me as an individual and also counselor. In this paper, relating to what we learned in play therapy I would describe how my uncle helped me feel understood as child.
Growing up my family had an expectation for me to always be the top student in my class. For me in elementary and middle school rather than focusing on education, I was more focused on having fun with my friends, so I was let down in some way. I used to remember my mom and nephew used to do similar to intervention once or twice a semester when I was in elementary in how I need to pay attention to my grades because I never …show more content…
He always had welcoming facial expression. From the moment I see him until he leave he always had consistent warm and positive expression, despite of the problems he was struggling. I feel that the non-verbal expression are important when it comes to working with any client. However, I feel that it is very important when it comes to working with children. One of the reason I think is because they are sill in the process of understanding others and trying to figure out what each non-verbal expression means. I used to remember when I was a kid I used to cry non-stop if I see people facial expression that appear frowned angrily, and the reason is because I knew when my mom or sister have that expression it means that they are mad at me. So I generalized that facial expression toward