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Reclaiming Sweet Freedom – 23 things that we need not explain justify or defend – Isabel Abbott

Posted on September 22, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.elephantjournal.com/2015/09/reclaiming-sweet-freedom-23-things-that-we-need-not-explain-justify-or-defend/ Just gorgeous. This is written from the woman’s perspective, and the writer wants to expand it to include all of us (with any tweaks required to find the right fit for you). It’s wonderful, profound, poetic and important. Thanks, … Continue reading →

Posted in abuse, acceptance, actualizing tendency, awakening, beauty, blaming, compulsive behaviour, conditions of worth, congruence, consciousness, core conditions, creativity, cultural questions, dependence, diversity, Eating, Elephant Journal, emotions, empathy, empowerment, encounter, equality, ethics, external locus, fear, feminine, flow, Gender & culture, grief, growth, guilt, healing, human condition, humour, identity, immanence, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, loss, love, meaning, mindfulness, non-conforming, organismic experiencing, paradigm shift, parenting, perception, person centred, physical being, political, power and powerlessness, pregnancy, presence, reality, relationship, resilience, sadness & pain, self, self esteem, sexual being, sexual orientation, shadow, shame, shaming, surrender, transformation, trauma, trust, vulnerability | Tagged absence, accusation, affordable counselling exeter, Aftermath, apologising, apologizing, approval, art, authenticity, autonomy, awakening, becoming, belonging, boundaries, censoring, change, changing your mind, choice, comfort, compulsion, compulsive behaviour, conforming, conformity, connection, control, conviction, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, creativity, defending yourself, dependency, desire, disappointment, disapproval, discomfort, distortion, divorce, ecstasy, Elephant Journal, embodied being, embodiment, emotional abuse, emotions, ethics, experiential truth, explaining yourself, falling in love, fear, fear of being misunderstood, fear of food, feelings, feminism, freedom, gas lighting, gender, getting needs met, grief, growth, human needs, impulse, inexplicable sadness, inner work, integration, interconnection, interdependence, intimacy, invasive behaviour, Isabel Abbott, joy, judgement, judgment, learning, longing, loss, loss of self, love, loving ourselves, low cost counselling exeter, marriage, mindfulness, misunderstanding, need for reassurance, non-conforming, not knowing, obsession with food, oppression, organismic, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, parenting, perception, permission, person centred counselling exeter, person-centered, person-centred, personal work, personhood, presence, purging poison, rationalising, rationalizing, reality, reassurance, reclaiming self, regret, relationship, restlessness, right to be you, right to exist, sadness, saying no, self acceptance, self care, self defence, self doubt, self expression, self justification, self liberation, self realisation, self realization, sexual being, sexual love, sexuality, shadow, shame, shared narratives, social approval, story, surrender, terror, transformation, trauma, trust, trusting ourselves, truth, uncertainty, verbal abuse, vulnerability, wanting, witnessing, writing, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

The Real Reason we Dig ourselves into Holes – Fae Leslie

Posted on November 10, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.elephantjournal.com/2014/11/the-real-reason-we-dig-ourselves-into-holes/ Click on the link for this profound and hopeful post in Elephant Journal by Fae Leslie, about the pit, what trauma was for her, and about not feeling safe in her body. One of the things we often find … Continue reading →

Posted in acceptance, actualizing tendency, awakening, client as 'expert', clients' perspective, compulsive behaviour, conditions of worth, congruence, consciousness, Disconnection, Elephant Journal, emotions, fear, grief, healing, human condition, internal locus of evaluation, loss, mindfulness, organismic experiencing, Palace Gate Counselling Service, perception, relationship, sadness & pain, self concept, therapeutic growth, trauma, trust | Tagged acceptance, actualising, actualizing, affordable counselling exeter, awakening, client as expert, client perspective, compulsive behaviour, conditions of worth, congruence, consciousness, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, disconnection, Elephant Journal, external locus, Fae Leslie, fear, grief, healing, internal locus, loss, low cost counselling exeter, organismic, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, perception, person centred counselling exeter, relationship, self concept, therapeutic growth, therapeutic process, trauma, trust, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Karisa Bigelow: Five Reasons We Should Be Naked Right Now

Posted on September 4, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.elephantjournal.com/2014/08/5-reasons-we-should-be-naked-right-now-karisa-bigelow/ Click on the link to Elephant Journal for Karisa’s article. She is using the idea of physical nakedness as an apt metaphor for emotional nakedness and openness. Like Brene Brown – and like us at this service – she … Continue reading →

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