Monthly Archives: January 2015

Terri Windling: Stories are Medicine: “healing tales” in myth, folklore, and mythic arts

Posted on January 29, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://windling.typepad.com/blog/2015/01/myth-illness.html Click on the link to Terri’s blog for this deep and lovely exploration of the role of story-telling in various cultures (and thank you to Coyopa on Facebook for showing us this). Apologies, the tags are sparse on this so … Continue reading →

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Carl Rogers on being listened to, and being heard

Posted on January 28, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

“When I have been listened to and when I have been heard, I am able to re-perceive my world in a new way and to go on. It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens, … Continue reading →

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Michael Leunig – More to Life

Posted on January 26, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

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Pema Chodron on Gloriousness and Wretchedness

Posted on January 25, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

“Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both. Appreciating the gloriousness inspires us, encourages us, cheers us up, gives us a bigger perspective, energizes us. We feel connected. But if that’s all that’s happening, we get arrogant … Continue reading →

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Michael Eigen on contact and suffering

Posted on January 24, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

‘Psychoanalysis often says that increased capacity for contact involves increased ability to undergo suffering. A person works towards sustaining intense psychic pressures. For example, Winnicott writes, ‘probably the greatest suffering in the human world is the suffering of the normal … Continue reading →

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Johann Hari on Addiction

Posted on January 23, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-real-cause-of-addicti_b_6506936.html Click on the link for this excellent article. We have seen this in a number of places over the past few days (thank you, Brent Potter and Monica Cassani), and it deserves a wide audience. The writer’s sense at … Continue reading →

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Mutiny of the Soul – Charles Eisenstein

Posted on January 22, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://beyondmeds.com/2015/01/22/mutiny-of-the-soul/ Click on the link to visit http://www.beyondmeds.com, and this wonderful article by Charles Eisenstein. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter

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Michelangelo’s Angel

Posted on January 21, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni Gratitude to our therapist, Jules, for sharing with us this beautiful Michelangelo quotation. It feels relevant both to the creative process, … Continue reading →

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i carry your heart – ee cummings

Posted on January 19, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

i carry your heart with me i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart) i am never without it (anywhere i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, … Continue reading →

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Ethics versus Compliance. The Institution, Ethical Psychotherapy Practice, (And Me) – Farhad Dalal

Posted on January 18, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

This is the third of our series looking at some of the issues around BACP’s proposed changes to its Ethical Framework – and why we and other practitioners so strongly object to its movement from an ethics-based code to a … Continue reading →

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