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preston  \nAbstract  \nReflexivity is a professional requirement of the Adult Guidance Counsellor, with reflexive practice paramount to our work. From 2008 to 2010 I trained asan Adult Guidance Counsellor while working with an unemployed adult client group. During this time, I also journeyed through my first pregnancy. Towards the end of my training, I experienced a crisis, which led to a process of reflection and transformative learning. In this paper, I share personal writings from my learning journey, using autoethnography asa vehicle for reflexivity. Authoethnography is a research method that allows the author to write in a highly personalised style, drawing on his or her own experience to extend understanding about a social phenomenon. My reflections show a subjective changeover time to the understanding of my changing self, and highlight the role of autoethnographyas a reflexive tool for the Guidance Counsellors’ Practice.  \nIntroduction  \nWe must write about what we really prefer not to write about. It isnot about presenting ourselves in a good light – in charge, competent, controlled, organised and so on, or how we might like to be seen. Rather it is about writing rich, full accounts that include the messy stuff–the self-doubts, the mistakes, the embarrassments, the inconsistencies, the projections and that which maybe distasteful. It is about writing all of it.  \nTenni, Smyth, Bochner,(2001:4)  \n‘My Story…’  \nOn November 4th 2008, the world changed, as Barack Hussein Obama became the first African American to be elected as president of the United States of America. I lay on my bed watching the TV footage for hours, unable to sleep, late into the night. ‘Change’, the reporters kept telling me, ‘Change has come’!  \nOn November 4th 2008, my world had changed. Ihadjust had confirmation from my doctor that I was pregnant with my first child. The pregnancy was unplanned and I was terrified. On the TV, Obama was happily declaring how he had ‘never felt more hopeful’, while, on my bed, I had never felt such despair. My husband was beside me, and numb with shock. I felt completely disconnected from him.  \n‘This can’t be happening’ he muttered over and over again. He had his head in his hands.  \nIn the background, Obama was strongly asserting how ‘We will get there!’‘No, no, no…’ My husband was muttering.  \n‘Yes you can!’Obama was in full swing.  \nAs my husband talked though his fears, I kept hearing the new President…‘There will be setbacks… but we will get there!’  \nI really wanted to believe him.  \n‘This is not the right time; The nextfew years were supposed to be all about career… What about your Guidance Counsellor Training? My business? I don’twanta baby right now. Maybe in a few years…’  \nI could not say anything to my husband, and I started to wonder if I knew him at all.  \nSo the pregnancy was not planned, and career was important to both of us. I wanted him to tell me that it would all be ok, that we would all live happily ever after… but these reassurances were not coming. I vividly remember turning my back to him, blocking out his words and staring intently at Obama. His first speech (Obama, 2008) as President of the United States will stay with me forever.  \n‘The heartache, the hope, the struggle and the progress…  \nYES WE CAN   \nWe shall overcome…  \nYES WE CAN!’  \nButI really was not sure if I could.  \nBackground to the Research  \nFrom 2008 to 2010 I trained as an Adult Guidance Counsellor in the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, while working with an unemployed adult client group. During the course of the two years of training, I also journeyed through my first pregnancy. This pregnancy was unplanned, and my son was born in the middle of the training.  \nA major requirement of the training is the submission of four recordings of guidance counselling sessions with clients completed over the two years. 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