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Monthly Archives: October 2014
Brené Brown on Connection
“I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.” Brené Brown Palace Gate Counselling … Continue reading
Posted in acceptance, Brene Brown, communication, congruence, core conditions, emotions, empathy, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, love, person centred, relationship, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, trust
Tagged affordable counselling exeter, belonging, Brené Brown, connection, core conditions, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, interconnection, living consciously, living fully, loving relationship, low cost counselling exeter, non-directive counselling, non-judgemental relationship, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person-centered, person-centred, relationship, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, trust, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk
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How to transform your sleep with the sun – Rebecca Tolin
http://www.mnn.com/health/fitness-well-being/stories/how-to-transform-your-sleep-with-the-sun Interesting article on Ayurvedic principles of sleep and well-being………. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter
Posted in meditation, mindfulness, natural world, neuroscience, physical being, sleep
Tagged affordable counselling exeter, Ancient Wisdom for Modern Health, Ayurvedic, Ayurvedic medicine, Ayurvedic practice, circadian rhythms, conscious living, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, endocrine system, Gaia, low cost counselling exeter, Mahesh Yogi, Marharishi, Mark Bunn, MNN, Mother Nature Network, natural rhythms, natural world, neurochemistry, neuroscience, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, physical being, Rebecca Tolin, REM sleep, sleep, sleep cycle, sleep wake homeostasis, transcendental meditation, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk, yoga
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Jon Keyes on Herbalism
What is Mental Health Herbalism? Click on the link for this interesting article by Jon on http://www.beyondmeds.com, sharing his knowledge of herbalism and holistic approach to healing and well-being. Here are a couple of older posts from Jon too:- Jon Keyes: … Continue reading
Posted in anti-depressants, consciousness, cultural questions, Disconnection, emotions, fear, healing, herbalism, human condition, interconnection & belonging, Jon Keyes, medical model, mindfulness, natural world, neuroscience, paradigm shift, perception, physical being, political, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, relationship, sadness & pain, sleep, spirituality, sustainability, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship
Tagged affordable counselling exeter, allopathic drugs, anxiety, ativan, belonging, benzodiazapenes, confusion, connection, consciousness, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, depression, extreme mental states, GABA receptors, Gaia, harmony, healing herbs, herbalism, holistic health, insomnia, Jon Keyes, Jonathan Keyes, low cost counselling exeter, medical model, medicalisation of distress, medicalization of distress, mental health model, natural healing, neurochemistry, neuroscience, pain management, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, panic attacks, paradigm shift, person centred counselling exeter, plant medicine, psychiatric drugs, psychiatric model, Psychosis, relationship, spirituality, SSRI, web of life, www.beyondmeds.com, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk, xanax
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The Messenger – Mary Oliver
The Messenger ‘My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird — equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums. Here the clam deep in the speckled sand. Are my boots old? Is … Continue reading
Posted in beauty, consciousness, creativity, gratitude, human condition, immanence, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, love, Mary Oliver, mindfulness, natural world, organismic experiencing, perception, physical being, poetry, reality, relationship, spirituality, therapeutic growth, wonder
Tagged affordable counselling exeter, beauty, belonging, conscious living, consciousness, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, embodied, embodiment, fully alive, gratefulness, gratitude, human condition, humming bird, immanence, interconnection, joy, joyfulness, low cost counselling exeter, Mary Oliver, mindfulness, natural beauty, natural world, organismic experience, organismic experiencing, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, perception, person centred counselling exeter, physical being, spirituality, the good life, the Messenger, wonder, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk
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The Power of Addiction and The Addiction of Power: Gabor Maté at TEDxRio+20
Another wonderful talk from Gabor Maté, this time coming in at a little under 19 minutes. We think he’s bang on, both in terms of what he says about addiction and in terms of the wider implications of this for … Continue reading
Posted in abuse, child development, childhood abuse, compulsive behaviour, conditions of worth, consciousness, cultural questions, Disconnection, ecological, ecological issues, emotions, external locus, fear, Gabor Mate, generational trauma, grief, growing up, healing, human condition, medical model, parenting, perception, political, power, power and powerlessness, psychiatric drugs, risk, self concept, sexual violence, suicide, TED, trauma, trust, violence, vulnerability
Tagged 'eating disorder', abuse of power, addiction, addiction to power, adverse childhood experience, affordable counselling exeter, alcoholism, anorexia, belief, brain chemistry, bulimia, childhood development, childhood distress, childhood trauma, compulsive behaviour, compulsive eating, compulsive shopping, compulsive spending, coping strategies, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, drug abuse, drug addiction, drug dependency, drug use, ecology, Gabor Mate, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, loss, low cost counselling exeter, medicating pain, misuse of power, nature or nurture, neuroscience, pain, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, parental disfunction, parental distress, parenting, person centred counselling exeter, political power, politics, porn addiction, power addiction, power of addiction, regulating emotion, sadness, self harming, self medicating, self regulation, self soothing, sex addiction, stillness, TED, TEDx, The Possible Human, trauma, Who are we when we are not addicted, Who We Are When We Are Not Addicted, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk
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Rumi on Spirituality & what people think of you
‘These spiritual window-shoppers, who idly ask, ‘How much is that?’ Oh, I’m just looking. They handle a hundred items and put them down, shadows with no capital. What is spent is love and two eyes wet with weeping. But these … Continue reading
Posted in acceptance, consciousness, Disconnection, flow, human condition, love, perception, poetry, reality, risk, Rumi, spirituality, tears
Tagged acceptance, affordable counselling exeter, consciousness, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, flow, grief, human condition, love, low cost counselling exeter, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, perception, person centred counselling exeter, reality, risk, Rumi, spirituality, tears, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk
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The Scarlet Label: Close Encounters with ‘Borderline Personality Disorder’ Jacqueline Simon Gunn & Brent Potter
http://www.madinamerica.com/2014/10/scarlet-label-close-encounters-borderline-personality-disorder/ Click on the link for Jacqueline’s and Brent’s article for Mad in America, which makes some interesting points, as do some of the comments (for example around the medicalization of distress/the human condition, and around gender bias in the … Continue reading
Posted in actualizing tendency, borderline personality disorder, Brent Potter, childhood abuse, conditions of worth, consciousness, cultural questions, Disconnection, emotions, empathy, fear, feminine, Gender & culture, healing, human condition, identity, Mad in America, medical model, non-directive counselling, Palace Gate Counselling Service, person centred, political, power, psychiatry, research evidence, scapegoating, self concept, suicide, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, trauma, trust, working with clients
Tagged ACE Study, adverse childhood event, affordable counselling exeter, borderline personality disorder, BPD, Brent Potter, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, diagnosis, diagnosis and disorder, disorder model, distress, DSM, empathy, gender and culture, gender bias, gender bias in medicine, gender bias in psychiatry, holistic counselling, holistic psychotherapy, Irvin Yalom, Jacqueline Gunn, low cost counselling exeter, Mad in America, medical model, medicalisation of distress, medicalization of distress, mental illness, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, person-centered, person-centred, psychiatric drugs, psychiatric model, recovery, social constructs in psychiatry, social constructs of mental illness, stigma, stigmatising, stigmatizing, suicidal clients, suicidal ideation, suicidal intent, suicide, Theodore Millon, trauma, working with clients with diagnosis of BPD, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk
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Michael Eigen on learning to be with our scream
‘Just because one is a baby and stops screaming, it doesn’t mean that the scream goes away inside. There is a scream that goes on all life long no matter who we are or what we do. Some of us … Continue reading
Posted in conditions of worth, consciousness, core conditions, emotions, fear, grief, healing, human condition, loneliness, loss, love, Michael Eigen, organismic experiencing, Palace Gate Counselling Service, perception, person centred, relationship, sadness & pain, self concept, shadow, suicide, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, trauma, violence, vulnerability, working with clients
Tagged acting out, actualising, actualizing, adverse childhood experience, affordable counselling exeter, childhood distress, conditions of worth, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, defensive structures, distress, emotional pain, experiential learning, grief, healing, low cost counselling exeter, Michael Eigen, organismic, organismic experience, pain, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, person-centered, person-centred, scream, self concept, self harm, shadow, suicide, therapeutic change, therapeutic growth, therapeutic process, therapeutic relationship, trauma, violence, vulnerability, working with clients, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk
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The 9 Most Overlooked Threats to a Marriage – Kelly Flanagan
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kelly-m-flanagan/the-9-most-overlooked-thr_b_5972534.html Click on the link for this helpful slant on what works in primary relationship – and what can get in the way. We’ve seen this pop up in a few places on Facebook and elsewhere in the past week … Continue reading
Posted in Brene Brown, communication, conditions of worth, congruence, core conditions, empathy, fear, human condition, interconnection & belonging, kindness & compassion, loneliness, love, Palace Gate Counselling Service, perception, person centred, power and powerlessness, relationship, risk, sadness & pain, self concept, shame, TED, trust, vulnerability, working with clients, working with couples
Tagged actualising, actualizing, affordable counselling exeter, belonging, blaming, Brené Brown, civil partnership, communication in relationship, conditions of worth, congruence, core conditions, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, couples therapy, courage, creativity, ego, empathy, fear, fear of vulnerability, interconnection, judging, Kelly Flanagan, loneliness, low cost counselling exeter, marriage, openness, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, person-centered, person-centred, power, power balance, powerlessness, primary relationship, relationship, relationship therapy, shame, strength, TED, therapeutic growth, vulnerability, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk
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