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Monthly Archives: July 2014
Rumi on Love
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” Rumi Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter
Posted in Disconnection, human condition, love, person centred, poetry, Rumi
Tagged human condition, love, Palace Gate Counselling Service, person-centred, Rumi
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Mary Gauthier: ‘Mercy Now’
Whether from the perspective of the life experiences people bring to this service, or what’s on the news, or what is difficult or painful in any of our lives – thinking we could all use a little mercy now…. Palace … Continue reading
Gaudi & conversations with God
‘…it is almost as though Gaudi’s work was a conversation with his God, utterly private and yet conducted in public. That, perhaps, is what made his buildings fly.’ Essential Gaudi: John Gill Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter
Posted in consciousness, creativity, genius, spirituality
Tagged creativity, Gaudi, genius, God, John Gill, Palace Gate Counselling Service, spirituality
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Oriah Mountain Dreamer on Putting herself to one side
“Stepping Away There is this pattern I sometimes unconsciously slip into that does not work well for me. I learned it early- a coping strategy in a childhood home where the adults’ underlying rage and unhappiness was like an ever-present … Continue reading
Posted in child development, conditions of worth, Disconnection, external locus, family systems, growing up, identity, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, Oriah Mountain Dreamer, relationship, self
Tagged conditions of worth, coping strategies, disconnection, external locus, internal locus, losing self, organismic experiencing, Palace Gate Counselling Service, placating, pleasing others, seeking approval, self concept
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John O’Donohue on the Senses
“Human skin is porous; the world flows through you. Your senses are large pores that let the world in. By being attuned to the wisdom of your senses, you will never become an exile in your own life, an outsider … Continue reading
Posted in cognitive, consciousness, human condition, John O'Donohue, mindfulness, organismic experiencing, perception, physical being, spirituality
Tagged Anam Cara, cognitive, connection, consciousness, disconnection, disembodied, disembodiment, embodied, embodied reality, embodiment, Exeter, John O'Donohue, Palace Gate Counselling Service, perception, physical being, senses, sensory perception, spiritual, spiritual experience, spirituality, wisdom, wisdom of senses, wisdom of the senses
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Russell Baugher on being forcibly committed to a psychiatric ward at 15
The teen was not psychotic, but the antipsychotics were Deeply shocking and distressing account by Russell of his experiences as a teenager. This happened in the US. We have heard similar accounts from the UK – nor can we comfort ourselves … Continue reading
Posted in anti-depressants, child development, clients' perspective, cultural questions, Disconnection, education, ethics, external locus, growing up, internal locus of evaluation, medical model, Monica Cassani, psychiatric abuse, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, Russell Baugher, trauma
Tagged anti psychotic medication, anti-depressants, Beyond Meds, Birth of a Patient, core conditions, forced psychiatric detention, forced psychiatric hospitalisation, forced psychiatric hospitalization, forced psychiatric treatment, gender, iatrogenic illness, medical model, medicalisation of distress, medicalization of distress, Monica Cassani, Palace Gate Counselling Service, person-centred, psychiatric drug recovery, psychiatric drug withdrawal, psychiatric drugs, psychiatric drugs in childhood, psychiatric medication, psychiatric model, Russell Baugher, school refusal, sectioning, sexual being, Thioridazine
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Creating our Realities: James Hillman
‘The way we imagine our lives is the way we are going to go on living our lives.’ James Hillman Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter
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