Category Archives: sexual being

Apsley Street, Glasgow, 2008 – Kei Miller

Posted on December 4, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

I know you do not like the way I write moments, how they grow into some kind of magic you do not always recognise. I know you think things are simpler and it is enough to simply say how things … Continue reading →

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Duet – Amy Yakima & Travis Wall

Posted on July 25, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Click on the above link to visit Worldwidedance on Facebook, for this beautiful, expressive pair dance by Amy and Travis, about connection and sexual relationship. Travis also did the choreography for this piece. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter Counselling … Continue reading →

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Guante ‘Ten Responses to the Phrase ‘Man up”

Posted on December 6, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Click on the link above for Guante’s performance of his work on Button Poetry’s Facebook page. Aho. ‘Man up’ belongs in the ‘just don’t say it’ category…. Thanks, Guante, and also to Button Poetry and Angie Buchanan for posting this on Facebook … Continue reading →

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Brian Thorne on belovedness, sexuality & power in therapy

Posted on May 25, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

In the passage before this excerpt, Brian has been talking about the idea of the ‘beloved’, in the context of the writings of Julian of Norwich. How any of us makes sense of ‘beloved’ will depend on personal experiences and conceptual structures/language. It is an … Continue reading →

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Monica Lewinsky with Jon Ronson

Posted on April 26, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/16/monica-lewinsky-shame-sticks-like-tar-jon-ronson Click on the link above for today’s post – Monica Lewinsky in a recent interview with Jon Ronson in The Guardian, well worth a read. In 2015, we published a link to, and a piece on, Monica’s wonderful TED talk ‘The … Continue reading →

Posted in abuse, blaming, bullying, compassion, compulsive behaviour, conditions of worth, consent, core conditions, cultural questions, Disconnection, emotions, empathy, empowerment, ethics, fear, Gender & culture, grief, healing, identity, interconnection & belonging, loneliness, loss, Monica Lewinsky, objectification, perception, political, power and powerlessness, sadness & pain, scapegoating, self, self concept, self esteem, sexual being, shadow, shame, shaming, suicide, trauma, trust, violence, vulnerability | Tagged abuse, acquiring a sense of self, affordable counselling exeter, anti-bullying advocacy, anti-bullying emojis, anti-bullying gifs, betrayal, bigotry, blame and shame model, bullying, bystander apathy, Bystander Revolution, bystanding, civil rights, communication, compassion, competing narrative, conditions of worth, consent, core pain, core trauma, core wound, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, cruelty, culture of humiliation, cure for shame, cyber-bullying, de-objectifying, dehumanising, dehumanizing, deobjectifying, developing a sense of self, disconnection, effects of shock, embarrassment, empathy, ethics, exclusion, exposure, fear, fear of ostracisation, feminism, grief, harassment, Human Rights, humiliation, identity, integrating trauma, internet bullying, internet shaming, Jon Ronson, judgement, legitimising bullying, legitimizing bullying, Lindsey Stone, loneliness, loss, low cost counselling exeter, Mike Daisey, misogyny, Monica In Black And White, Monica Lewinsky, mortification, mutual relationship, object of hate, objectification, online bullying, online harassment, ostracisation, ostracising, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, perception, person centred counselling exeter, projecting, public humiliation, public shaming, racism, recontextualising experience, recontextualizing experience, resilience, Self, self concept, self esteem, sense of self, shame, Shame and Survival, shaming, shock, shock behaviours, suicide, targeting difference, TED, threat to identity, threatened identity, transformation, trauma, trolling, upstander, upstanding, vulnerability, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Animal courtships, performed by humans

Posted on April 10, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

It’s a first in our history to post a condom advert, but we enjoyed this piece of whimsy, which has some depth and beauty – and we thought you might too… Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter Counselling Exeter since 1994

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“Broom” Jim Harrison

Posted on March 29, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

BROOM To remember you’re alive visit the cemetery of your father at noon after you’ve made love and are still wrapped in a mammalian odor that you are forced to cherish. Under each stone is someone’s inevitable surprise, the unexpected … Continue reading →

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Mary Oliver on Love & its necessary wildness – Brainpickings

Posted on March 12, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Mary Oliver on Love and Its Necessary Wildness Lovely piece, beautiful poems, and a wonderful conversation between Mary and Krista Tippett for On Being – as Maria says ‘feast your soul’. Thank you, as ever, to Maria Popova and Brainpickings. Here’s the book … Continue reading →

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‘The Truelove’ David Whyte

Posted on February 15, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Beautiful poem about coming home to love, from David. Lovely picture too. One or two of our readers are having difficulty reading some FB links, so here is the text:- THE TRUELOVE There is a faith in loving fiercely the … Continue reading →

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Mouthful of Forevers by Clementine von Radics

Posted on December 2, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

“I am not the first person you loved. You are not the first person I looked at with a mouthful of forevers. We have both known loss like the sharp edges of a knife. We have both lived with lips … Continue reading →

Posted in beauty, conditions of worth, core conditions, creativity, embodiment, emotions, empathy, encounter, fear, forgiveness, growth, healing, interconnection & belonging, loneliness, loss, love, meaning, metaphor & dream, physical being, poetry, presence, relationship, risk, sadness & pain, sexual being, surrender, touch, trust, vulnerability | Tagged affordable counselling exeter, being seen, being seen by another, belonging, brokenness, Clementine von Radics, closeness, coming home, conditional love, conditions of worth, connectedness, connection, core conditions, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, empathy, encounter, fear, forgiveness, grief, grieving, healing, home, homecoming, hope, human relationship, imperfection, imperfectness, interconnection, intimacy, loneliness, loss, love poems, love poetry, low cost counselling exeter, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, presence, relationship, romantic love, separation, sexual love, sexual relationship, trust, unconditional love, vulnerability, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

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