Monthly Archives: April 2015

Martin Luther King on Urban Riots & Oppression

Posted on April 30, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

https://www.facebook.com/groups/108667668615/permalink/10152840219938616/ This quotation remains profoundly timely and relevant. Although the writer has an issue with the language of sin and guilt, she nonetheless resonates with the Victor Hugo quotation:- ‘If a soul is left in the darkness, sins will be … Continue reading →

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Boyan Slat on Cleaning the Oceans – Amateo Ra

Posted on April 29, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/the-20-year-old-who-plans-to-remove-all-plastic-from-the-ocean/ This might at first glance seem an odd post for a therapy service. However, Boyan Slat’s vision and work seemed to us profoundly inspiring and empowering – an example of one person finding ways to manifest his ethics, passion … Continue reading →

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How America’s Culture of Shame is a Killer for Boys – Mark Greene

Posted on April 28, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/megasahd-why-americas-culture-of-shame-is-killing-us/ This article by Mark is wonderful, and the writer was crying before the end…Although the title gives a masculine focus, the points made are valid for us all, however we self describe/make sense of gender. This is the second … Continue reading →

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John O’Donohue on Gratitude

Posted on April 27, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

“So at the end of this day, we give thanks For being betrothed to the unknown.” John O’Donohue Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter

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Matt Licata on stepping into our lives

Posted on April 25, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Thank you to Steph Bradley on Facebook for reposting this lovely poem, and thank you to Matt Licata for writing it. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter

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Childhood is not a mental disorder – CCHR International

Posted on April 24, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Eloquent film from CCHR International, making its – vitally important – point in under two minutes. Here’s a link to CCHR International’s site, co-founded by Thomas Szasz, and fighting for human rights in ‘mental health’. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter

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A Spiritual Conspiracy – source unknown (updated)

Posted on April 22, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

‘A Spiritual Conspiracy On the surface of the world right now there is war and violence and things seem dark.But calmly and quietly, at the same time,something else is happening underground.An inner revolution is taking place and certain individualsare being … Continue reading →

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Learning to be with ourselves: a response to Understanding Psychosis – Elizabeth Svanholmer

Posted on April 21, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://beyondmeds.com/2015/04/20/learning/ Click on the link to visit Monica Cassani’s resource-rich site, http://www.beyondmeds.com, for this great piece by Elizabeth Svanholmer, commenting on the recent report by The British Psychological Society, Division of Clinical Psychology, edited by Anne Cooke and entitled:- ‘Understanding … Continue reading →

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Irvin Yalom on spontaneity and uniqueness in therapy

Posted on April 19, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

‘At its very core, the flow of therapy should be spontaneous, forever following unanticipated riverbeds; it is grotesquely distorted by being packaged into a formula that enables inexperienced, inadequately trained therapists (or computers) to deliver a uniform course of therapy. … Continue reading →

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Lao Tsu on the power of listening deeply

Posted on April 18, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

‘It was as though he listened deeply, and such listening as his enfolds us in silence in which at last we begin to hear what we are meant to be. Lao Tsu Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter

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