Monthly Archives: October 2016

Gender Equality in Iceland

Posted on October 30, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Encouraging little film from ITV about the Icelandic approach to gender equality. It ends by commenting there is still a 14% pay gap – which recently led to Icelandic women leaving work 14% earlier than their male counterparts, to make … Continue reading →

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Maya Angelou on Forgiving yourself

Posted on October 29, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

“I don’t know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you … Continue reading →

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Grayson Perry on Gendering & Cultural Pressures

Posted on October 25, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Click on the link for this useful clip of Grayson Perry talking to Jon Snow on the extent to which gender and masculinity are culturally defined for children before they are even born. We notice at this service the huge … Continue reading →

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Your Boat Home – Ruth Cohen-Rose

Posted on October 22, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Your Boat Home The most intolerable, unfeelable, unbearable pain is your boat home. Sail it if you will. Embark on the perilous journey to the unclaimed shores of your being. The seas will be rough, Something in you will drown … Continue reading →

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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross on living while we’re alive

Posted on October 21, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

“It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we’re alive – to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade … Continue reading →

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Marina Abramovic & Eye-gazing

Posted on October 18, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Extraordinarily moving. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter Counselling in Exeter since 1994

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On Being a Good Ancestor, our Interconnection, & the Land

Posted on October 15, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Click on the link to visit Greenpeace USA on Facebook, for a beautiful and moving (and heartbreaking) short film about a woman living in an area subject to fracking, in the U.S. This is very relevant here too. The government … Continue reading →

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The Lid is Off – Charles Eisenstein

Posted on October 14, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

The Lid is Off Click on the link above for this perceptive, important piece by Charles Eisenstein on www/charleseisenstein.net And here are some book links:- https://www.amazon.co.uk/Beautiful-Hearts-Possible-Sacred-Activism/dp/1583947248/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1476434506&sr=8-1&keywords=charles+eisenstein https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sacred-Economics-Money-Society-Transition/dp/1583943978/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1476434506&sr=8-2&keywords=charles+Eisenstein https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ascent-Humanity-Civilization-Human-Sense/dp/1583946365/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1476434506&sr=8-3&keywords=charles+eisenstein Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter Counselling in Exeter since 1994

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In That Year – Kim Moore

Posted on October 12, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

In That Year And in that year my body was a pillar of smoke and even his hands could not hold me. And in that year my mind was an empty table and he laid his thoughts down like dishes of … Continue reading →

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‘Surrender more. Seek less’ – Monica Cassani on Beyond Meds

Posted on October 10, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Surrender more. Seek less. Click on the above link to visit Monica Cassani’s treasure trove site, http://www.beyondmeds.com, for a post on how trying to change yourself can be an ineffective strategy. Carl Rogers agreed with her on this (and so do we):- … Continue reading →

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