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Maya Luna, on staying with….

Posted on December 19, 2018 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Beautiful, accurate poem from Maya’s Facebook page. Here are the words, for anyone who has difficulty reading FB links:- “If you cannot help me If you cannot heal me If you cannot solve My problem Will you stay anyways? Just … Continue reading →

Posted in acceptance, core conditions, cultural questions, emotions, empathy, encounter, grief, healing, interconnection & belonging, kindness & compassion, Maya Luna, person centred, power and powerlessness, presence, relationship, sadness & pain, surrender, tears, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, vulnerability, working with clients | Tagged accompanying, accompanying another, accompanying someone, affordable counselling exeter, being alongside, brokenness, core conditions, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, feeling broken, holding space, low cost counselling exeter, Maya Luna, mend my life, not fixing, not trying to fix, other as mirror, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, trust the process, trusting the process, vulnerability, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Everything Doesn’t Happen For A Reason – Tim Lawrence

Posted on November 10, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.timjlawrence.com/blog/2015/10/19/everything-doesnt-happen-for-a-reason#st_refDomain=www.facebook.com&st_refQuery=/ Immensely useful piece on the importance of grieving, and the unhelpful violence of platitudes and imposed ‘positivity’. As Tim says, we have a deeply harmful cultural inability to speak the language of grief or offer what is most needed – loving … Continue reading →

Posted in communication, core conditions, cultural questions, Disconnection, dying, empathy, encounter, friendship, grief, healing, human condition, interconnection & belonging, loneliness, loss, love, non-conforming, presence, relationship, resilience, sadness & pain, self concept, shadow, shame, shaming, tears, transformation, trauma, trust, violence, vulnerability | Tagged absence, accompanying, acknowledging experience, acknowledging pain, adversity, affordable counselling exeter, being with difficult feeling, being with grief, being with uncomfortable feeling, bereavement, betrayal, brokenness, brutality, carrying pain, consequences of loss, core conditions, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, cultural attitudes to grieving, cultural attitudes to loss, death, dehumanising, dehumanizing, delusional narrative, depersonalisation, depersonalization, despair, devastation, distress, dying, emotional violence, empathy, everything happens for a reason, evolution, fallacy, fantasy, fragility, freedom, grief, grieving, growth, healing, heartbreak, hiding, hopes, hubris, human experience, loss, loss and growth, loss of dreams, lost dreams, lost opportunities, love, low cost counselling exeter, making change, Megan Devine, necessity of grief, need to grieve, non-conforming, pain, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, personal development, personal responsibility, platitudes, positivity, post traumatic growth, presence, psychological violence, relationship, relationship break up, resilience, responsibility, sanctimony, self concept, self hatred, self help, self reliance, self-sabotage, self-structure, separation, shadow, shame, spiritual violence, suffering, survival, survivor’s guilt, taking responsibility, The Adversity Within, Tim Lawrence, tragedy, transformation, trauma, turning away, understanding, vulnerability, willingness, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

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