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Monthly Archives: December 2014
Eric Fromm on Giving
Gratitude to Jürgen and Lived Experience. The reference of life for this wonderful picture and quotation. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter
Posted in acceptance, actualizing tendency, awakening, communication, consciousness, core conditions, emotions, empathy, equality, Eric Fromm, friendship, healing, interconnection & belonging, love, presence, relationship, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, trust
Tagged actualising, actualizing, affordable counselling exeter, aliveness, belonging, communication, connection, consciousness, core conditions, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, depleting, empathy, equality, equalizing, Eric Fromm, giving and receiving, healing, interconnectedness, interconnection, low cost counselling exeter, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, presence, relational depth, relational flow, relational presence, relationship, replenishing, restorative, therapeutic relationship, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk
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Michael Leunig on accompanying ourselves
Touching, tender one from Michael……let’s all do more of this in 2015. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter
Posted in acceptance, consciousness, core conditions, creativity, empathy, gratitude, healing, human condition, humour, kindness & compassion, love, Michael Leunig, poetry, presence, relationship, self, trust
Tagged affordable counselling exeter, aloneness, compassion, core conditions, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, healing, human condition, kindness, loneliness, low cost counselling exeter, Michael Leunig, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, poetry, presence, Self, self acceptance, self care, self compassion, tenderness, trust, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk
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Thomas Merton on Brightness and Darkness
“Your brightness is my darkness. I know nothing of You and, by myself, I cannot even imagine how to go about knowing You. If I imagine You, I am mistaken. If I understand You, I am deluded. If I am … Continue reading
Posted in acceptance, consciousness, human condition, love, perception, presence, spirituality, Thomas Merton, trust
Tagged affordable counselling exeter, ambiguity, awareness, brightness, consciousness, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, darkness, divine, human condition, letting go, low cost counselling exeter, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, paradox, person centred counselling exeter, shadow, spiritual practice, spirituality, surrender, Thomas Merton, trust, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk
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Wendell Berry on pride, despair & fragments of a music
‘There is the bad work of pride. There is also the bad work of despair – done poorly out of the failure of hope or vision. Despair is the too-little of responsibility, as pride is the too-much. The shoddy work … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, emotions, empathy, fear, flow, good, gratitude, grief, healing, human condition, interconnection & belonging, kindness & compassion, love, perception, relationship, sadness & pain, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, Wendell Berry, working with clients
Tagged affordable counselling exeter, ancestors, awakening, belonging, compassion, consciousness, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, despair, existential meaning, grace, human condition, interconnectedness, interconnection, interdependence, kindness, loneliness, love, low cost counselling exeter, meaning, mortality, music so subtle and vast, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, person-centered, person-centred, pride, relationship, therapeutic relationship, transience, vision, web of life, Wendell Berry, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk
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Bonnie Bright – Trauma and Homecoming: Finding a Sense of Place in the Space of Trauma
http://www.depthinsights.com/Depth-Insights-scholarly-ezine/trauma-and-homecoming-finding-a-sense-of-place-in-the-space-of-trauma-by-bonnie-bright/ Click on the link to visit this fascinating and profound article by Bonnie. It’s a long read, well worth the investment of time and energy. She begins with the choice of the U’wa people in Colombia, faced with the … Continue reading
Posted in abuse, awakening, beauty, Brent Potter, consciousness, core conditions, cultural questions, Disconnection, ecological, ecological issues, ethics, fear, grief, healing, interconnection & belonging, Joanna Macy, Jung, kindness & compassion, mindfulness, natural world, organismic experiencing, paradigm shift, perception, person centred, physical being, political, power and powerlessness, presence, reality, relationship, sadness & pain, sustainability, therapeutic growth, trauma, violence, vulnerability
Tagged absolutisms, abuse, addiction, affordable counselling exeter, alienation, ancestral memory, anxiety, archetypal, archetypal defence, archetype, attention deficit disorder, autism, belonging, Bonnie Bright, brokenness, catastrophic loss of innocence, Chellis Glendinning, collective memory, collective mourning, collective Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, collective trauma, collective unconscious, compassion, conscious, conscious living, coping mechanism, coping strategy, core threat, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, creativity, cultural disconnection, daimon, defence mechanism, defence strategy, desensitization, disconnection, disintegration anxiety, displacement, dissociation, Donald Kalsched, earth mother, ecological exploitation, ecological issues, ego, emotional affect, existential vulnerability, fear of annihilation, fragmentation, Gabor Mate, Gaia, Glen Albrecht, Glendinning, grief, Heidigger, Heinz Kohut, identity, indigenous culture, indigenous people, individuality, interconnectedness, isolation, Jerome Bernstein, Joanna Macy, Jung, Living in the Borderland, loss, loss of being, low cost counselling exeter, medicalisation of distress, medicalization of distress, Michael Fordham, Michael Meade, myth, narrative, Navajo, numbing, pain, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, paradigm shift, pathological behavior, pathological culture, person centred counselling exeter, Philip Cushman, pioneer archetype, Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, power, powerlessness, psychic numbing, psychic pain, PTSD, PTSS, rage, repetitive traumatic events, ritual, sacred space, sacredness, Samuel Kimbles, sense of place, solastalgia, spatial areas of transition, spirit of place, spiritual belief, Spiritual Ecology, Stolorow, suicide, Susan Brison, sustainable ecology, symbol, the Great Self, Tom Singer, transition, trauma, trauma response, trauma survivor, trust, U’wa, U’wa suicide pact, violation, web of life, web of meaning, Western individuality, Work that Reconnects, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk
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Existence – Alan Watts
Alan Watts being himself, on existence, wonder, respect and ‘materialism’. ‘…respect is…based on wonder’. Yes. Wonder, and gratitude. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter
Posted in Alan Watts, beauty, consciousness, Disconnection, ethics, gratitude, human condition, interconnection & belonging, natural world, perception, presence, reality, relationship, self, wonder
Tagged affordable counselling exeter, Alan Watts, consciousness, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, existence, existential meaning, human condition, interconnectedness, interconnection, low cost counselling exeter, materialism, materialist, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, relationship, respect, web of life, wonder, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk
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A Herbal Remedy for Lifeache – Michael Leunig
Click on the link to visit the Michael Leunig Appreciation Page on Facebook, for this lovely gentle cartoon. We enjoyed the herbal remedy (which we know to be effective), and the therapeutic presence of the duck. Palace Gate Counselling Service, … Continue reading
Posted in beauty, consciousness, emotions, grief, healing, human condition, interconnection & belonging, love, Michael Leunig, mindfulness, natural world, organismic experiencing, perception, physical being, sadness & pain
Tagged affordable counselling exeter, beauty, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, distress, earth mother, emotions, Gaia, grief, healing, low cost counselling exeter, Michael Leunig, mindfulness, mother nature, natural world, nature therapy, pain, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, perception, person centred counselling exeter, sadness, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk
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