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‘Giving up alcohol opened my eyes to the infuriating truth about why women drink’ Kristi Coulter

Posted on July 4, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Giving up alcohol opened my eyes to the infuriating truth about why women drink Click on the above link to visit Quartz Media’s site, for Kristi’s great piece about women, alcohol and our culture. This is from a U.S. perspective … Continue reading →

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The 12th day of Christmas – George Monbiot

Posted on December 2, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/dec/10/on-12th-day-christmas-present-junk Click on the link above for George’s article in the Guardian on the real cost of Christmas, and the inheritance we are creating for our children and those yet to come. “…of the materials flowing through the consumer economy, … Continue reading →

Posted in 'evil', abuse, accountability, advertising, awakening, communication, compulsive behaviour, cultural questions, cultural taboos, Disconnection, ecological, ecological issues, ethics, Gabor Mate, George Monbiot, loss, Maya Angelou, natural world, objectification, paradigm shift, political, shadow, sustainability, violence | Tagged Adam Welz, addiction, addictive behaviour, advertising and cultural norms, affordable counselling exeter, Annie Leonard, associating consumption with happiness, authoritarianism, carbon dioxide production, climate change, collective insanity, collective madness, consumer boom, consumer economy, consumer society, consumerism, consumption and happiness, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, cultural self harming, cultural shadow, destructive behaviour, disconnection, discovered that, disposable culture, economic inequality, ethical responsibility, fallacy of growth economy, fatuity, festival of junk, Gabor Mate, George Monbiot, global warming, growth economy, growth of inequality, hedonism, industrialisation, industrialised nations, industrialization, insane culture, landfill, living world, low cost counselling exeter, mass media and cultural norms, Maya Angelou, Moral Maze, normalising, normalizing, numbing, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, paradigm shift, pathological consumption, perceived obsolescence, person centred counselling exeter, planned obsolescence, pointless consumption, pointlessness, rhino horn, scratch off world map, self harming, selling dreams, selling meaning, sick culture, stimulating spending, Story of Stuff, sustainability, Terry the Swearing Turtle, unsustainability, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Neutralising suffering: how the medicalisation of distress obliterates meaning and creates profit – Joanna Moncrieff

Posted on March 16, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://joannamoncrieff.com/2014/03/11/neutralising-suffering-how-the-medicalisation-of-distress-obliterates-meaning-and-creates-profit/ Important article by Joanna Moncrieff, an M.D. who writes and speaks extensively on this theme. ‘Drugs have now been starkly divided into the good and the bad: the prescribed medication which people must take however awful it makes them … Continue reading →

Posted in advertising, anti-depressants, anti-psychotics, compulsive behaviour, criminal justice model, cultural questions, dependence, diagnoses of bipolar, Disconnection, emotions, ethics, external locus, fear, iatrogenic illness, Joanna Moncrieff, medical model, neuroscience, paradigm shift, perception, political, power and powerlessness, psychiatric abuse, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, relationship, research evidence, sadness & pain | Tagged affordable counselling exeter, aggression, anti-depressants, antidepressants, anxiety, atypical antipsychotics, benzodiazepine dependence, benzodiazepines, Big Pharma, bipolar disorder, bipolar I disorder, chemical imbalance theory, chemical imbalance theory of depression, competitiveness, consumerism, consumption, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, David Healy, depression, discontent, disease and disorder model, dissatisfaction, Eli Lilly, Elizabeth Gaskell, emotional suppressants, everyday nerves, existential meaning, existential pain, financial exploitation, grief, grieving, insecurity, Joanna Moncrieff, John Barton, loss, low cost counselling exeter, manic depression, Mark Rapley, marketing of psychiatric drugs, Mary Barton, materialism, medicalisation of distress, medicalization of distress, misery, modern life, mood diaries, mood disorder, myths about psychiatric drugs, opium, pain, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, pathologising grief, pathologizing grief, performance management, person centred counselling exeter, poverty, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, prozac, psychiatric drugs, psychoactive substances, recreational drug use, Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor, Seroquel, serotonin theory of depression, Seroxat, social anxiety disorder, social environment, social exploitation, social factors in depression, social inequality, social malaise, SSRI, Stephen Fry, suffering, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk, Zopiclone, Zyprexa, Zyprexa papers, Zyprexa side effects | Leave a comment

A Brief History of Happiness: Sarah van Gelder

Posted on February 24, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.yesmagazine.org/happiness/how-america-lost-track-of-the-good-life-and-where-to-find-it-now Thanks to Brent Dean Robbins and the Society for Humanistic Psychology, Division 32 on Facebook for the link to this interesting article in Yes Magazine, on the subject of how we have lost our way as cultures, and what … Continue reading →

Posted in advertising, Carl Rogers, communication, compulsive behaviour, core conditions, cultural questions, Disconnection, ecological, ecological issues, ethics, external locus, growth, human condition, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, mindfulness, natural world, paradigm shift, perception, political, power and powerlessness, relationship, sustainability, therapeutic growth, transformation, values & principles | Tagged abundance, activism, Amy Novotney, authenticity, bee populations, belonging, Bhutan, Bhutan and WTO, buen vivir, Cameron Anderson, Carl Rogers, climate change, community, community vitality, competition, connection, consciousness shift, consumer culture, consumer society, consumerism, consumption, core conditions, corporate power, corporate-driven consumerism, creativity, criminal justice model, cultural diversity, cultural values, deforestation, depresssion, dying bees, earth mother, ecological diversity, Ecological Economics, economic elite, economic exploitation, economic growth fallacy, economic inequality, economic power, economic sustainability, ecosystems, education, effects of stress, environmental issues, environmental sustainability, Ernest Dichter, eudaimonia, existential meaning, extinction rates, fracking, Gaia, Gandhi, GDP, Genuine Progress Indicator, George Gerbner, Gospel of Consumerism, governance, GPI, gratitude, green economy, Gross Domestic Product, gross national happiness, happiness, Happiness Alliance, happiness movement, health, Hippocratic Oath, holistic well being, Hoover, Ida Kubiszewski, income inequality, interconnectedness, interconnection, Jigme Singye Wangchuck, John deGraaf, living standards, Mark Mancall, meaning, mindfulness, Monica Williams, natural world, nature therapy, nonrenewable energy sources, Pachamama, paradigm shift, Perspectives in Politics, practice of gratitude, profit-driven economy, psychological well-being, PTSD, pursuit of happiness, racism, Rana Plaza, reciprocity, relationship, resilience, Richard Wilkinson, Sarah van Gelder, sexual violence, social inequality, social justice, sovereignty, Stacey Kennelly, sustainability, sustainable happiness, Thomas Jefferson, Tim Kasser, trauma, US oligarchy, Viktor Frankl, well-being, working hours | Leave a comment

Gabor Maté: On Storytelling, Health, and the Ruling Class, with Ryan Meili

Posted on November 24, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/gabor-mate-storytelling Click on the link for Part 2 of this fascinating, wide-ranging interview with Gabor Mate (Part 1 was yesterday’s post). The writer is often struck with the strong links between what Gabor is saying, and person-centred. For example, Rogers … Continue reading →

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You Are Here To Wake Up

Posted on August 23, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Video Montage: Elina S Music: Take Me Into Your Skin – Trentemøller Glasses scene from the movie ‘They Live’Voices from the movie ‘The Matrix’ Thank you to Monica, from Beyond Meds for showing us this profound little movie. Here’s a … Continue reading →

Posted in advertising, consciousness, Disconnection, ecological, ecological issues, empowerment, external locus, human condition, Monica Cassani, paradigm shift, perception, political, reality | Tagged authority, conformity, conscious living, consumer society, consumerism, counselling exeter, Elina S, external locus of evaluation, normality, oppression, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, paradigm shift, rat race, reality, social contract, Take Me Into Your Skin, The Matrix, They Live, Trentemoller | Leave a comment

Laci Green on Sexual Objectification

Posted on August 6, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Thanks Monica, for your post and link to Laci on You Tube. Liking what Laci has to say on this important and relevant theme, about the embedded sexual objectification (especially of women) that runs through our cultures, and how harmful … Continue reading →

Posted in advertising, conditions of worth, core conditions, cultural questions, Disconnection, external locus, Gender & culture, Laci Green, Monica Cassani, objectification, paradigm shift, perception, physical being, pornography, research evidence, sexual being, sexual violence | Tagged consciousness, counselling exeter, cultural disconnection, disconnection, gender and culture, gender bias, Laci Green, Monica Cassani, objectification, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, perception, person-centred, rape culture, sexism, sexist, sexual being, sexual objectification, sexual relationship, sexuality | Leave a comment

The Secrets of Food Marketing

Posted on June 6, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

This might seem like an odd post for a therapy service, but I just watched it and it fascinated me and made me cry, and I want to share it as widely as I can. In fact, I would like … Continue reading →

Posted in advertising, consciousness, cultural questions, Disconnection, ethics, human condition, kindness & compassion, paradigm shift | Tagged actualising, actualizing, advertising, awareness, compassion, Compassion in World Farming, conscious living, disconnection, ethics, factory farming, intensive farming, interconnectedness, interconnection, paradigm shift, personal responsibility, social control, social manipulation | Leave a comment

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