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Brené Brown on Courage

Posted on November 26, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

“Courage is a heart word. The root of the word courage is cor – the Latin word for heart. In one of its earliest forms, the word courage meant “To speak one’s mind by telling all one’s heart.” Over time, … Continue reading →

Posted in Brene Brown, compassion, congruence, core conditions, cultural questions, emotions, empathy, empowerment, encounter, feminine, Gender & culture, interconnection & belonging, kindness & compassion, love, person centred, relationship, risk, shame, trust, vulnerability, working with clients | Tagged achievement, achievement culture, affordable counselling exeter, authenticity, being open, being seen, belonging, Brené Brown, compassion, connectedness, connecting with others, connection, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, courage, culture of shame, de-armoring, de-armouring, empathy, existential meaning, heart connection, heart language, heart words, human connection, I Thought It Was Just Me, inner stength, low cost counselling exeter, making connection, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, personal commitment, reclaiming, reclaiming power, risk, shame, sharing narrative, sharing personal experiences, sharing your story, show up and be seen, showing up, speaking from the heart, speaking openly, vulnerability, whole heart, willingness to be seen, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Charles Eisenstein on the New Story & Separation

Posted on September 4, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

‘Even though science as we know it is central to the centuries-long or millennia-long program to master nature, even though its approach to gathering knowledge is the very model of “othering” nature and making the world into an object, scientifically … Continue reading →

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Brené Brown on Living in the Questions

Posted on April 15, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://mariashriver.com/blog/2016/04/prime-book-brene-brown-courage-vulnerability-peter-freed/?utm_source=Current+Users&utm_campaign=6c8a4c7de2-April_8_Send_Out_4_8_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_53bf79976c-6c8a4c7de2-35203661&mc_cid=6c8a4c7de2&mc_eid=baf214491e Brené talking about what the maturation process has looked like for her… We agree – learning to live in the questions is also what we see unfolding in therapy. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter Counselling in Exeter since 1994 … Continue reading →

Posted in boundaries, Brene Brown, compassion, conditions of worth, congruence, consciousness, creativity, cultural questions, emotions, empathy, empowerment, encounter, growing up, growth, identity, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, kindness & compassion, meaning, perception, power and powerlessness, presence, relationship, resilience, risk, self, self concept, shadow, shame, transformation, vulnerability | Tagged achievement, achievement culture, affordable counselling exeter, alpha parenting, armor, armour, belonging, boundaries, Brené Brown, competitive culture, consumer society, consumerism, control, controlling outcome, coping mechanisms, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, courage, creativity, de-armoring, de-armouring, depletion, difficult feeling, exhaustion, existential meaning, exploring the darkness, feeling inadequate, feeling lost, feeling resentful, finding answers, finding certainty, getting hurt, giving yourself permission, growing into your gifts, growing up, holding boundaries, I am enough, imperfection, inadequacy, living in the mystery, living in the questions, lostness, love and light, low cost counselling exeter, materialism, maturation, midlife crisis, midlife questions, not knowing, owning your narrative, owning your stories, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, people pleasing, performing, person centred counselling exeter, Peter Freed, pretending, Prime, protecting yourself, rediscovering creativity, resentment, risk, saying no, self protection, self worth, self worth based on achievement, setting boundaries, shame, show up and be seen, showing up, slowing down, softening into the mysteries, still searching, transformation, transformative change, transience, uncertainty, uncomfortable feeling, unknowing, unravelling, vulnerability, weakness, what people think, whole heart, worthiness, worthy of love, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Advocating for a global strategy of ‘generosity through sharing’ Rajesh Makwana

Posted on April 9, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Click on the link at the end of the post for this interesting and important piece. The writer doesn’t see all the detail quite like Rajesh – and is with him on the gravity of the issues, the principles he outlines … Continue reading →

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David Whyte on Resting

Posted on December 26, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

We have not long posted a David Whyte link – and this feels so seasonally appropriate, and so lovely, that we are indulging ourselves. With hope that – wherever you are, and whatever this time of year has meant and … Continue reading →

Posted in acceptance, cognitive, compassion, conditions of worth, consciousness, creativity, cultural questions, David Whyte, Disconnection, embodiment, emotions, empathy, empowerment, encounter, external locus, flow, forgiveness, gratitude, growth, healing, human condition, identity, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, kindness & compassion, love, meaning, meditation, metaphor & dream, mindfulness, movement meditation, natural world, organismic experiencing, perception, person centred, photographs & pictures, physical being, presence, relationship, resilience, self, sleep, surrender, therapeutic growth, trust, vulnerability | Tagged achievement, achieving, affordable counselling exeter, agency, anticipation, anxiety, authentic being, authentic self, being blessed, blessing, body rhythms, breath, breathing, breathing meditation, coming home, Consolations, conversation, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, courage, David Whyte, death and rebirth, deep experience of rest, deep rest, delight, destination, doing and being, dreaming, ego death, ego mind, egoic death, embodied being, embodiment, encounter, endeavour, energy exchange, enjoyment, exhaustion of the will, existential meaning, finding stillness, fretting, fulfilment, full well, generosity, giving and receiving, giving and taking, giving up, healing, homecoming, image, imagination, imaginative, in breath and out breathing, inner and outer, intellectual, interior world, inward experience, inward world, joy, living exchange, love, low cost counselling exeter, making real in the world; letting alone, manifestation, manifesting, meanings of winter, meeting, metaphor, motivation, movement, natural exchange, natural rhythms, need to achieve, nourishment, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, perception, person centred counselling exeter, perspective, possibilities, possibility, potential, potentiality, presence, readiness, receiving, reconnection, relationship, relaxation, remembering, renewal, replenishment, responding, response, rest, rest in motion, rest in movement, restfulness, resting, reward, saving the world, Self, self care, self compassion, self forgiveness, setting goals, Solace Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words, spontaneity, spontaneous, stillness, striving, surrender, surrendering, understanding, visioning, well-being, will, winter solstice, worrying, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk, yang energy, yin energy | Leave a comment

The Longing for Belonging – Charles Eisenstein

Posted on August 23, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-eisenstein/indigeneity-and-belonging_b_8011302.html Originally written for our local Schumacher College, in the context of a course Charles was leading. Charles features regularly on this blog – the writer believes him to be one of the important thinkers and writers of our time. … Continue reading →

Posted in awakening, Charles Eisenstein, communication, compassion, consciousness, core conditions, cultural questions, dependence, Disconnection, ecological, education, empathy, empowerment, encounter, equality, ethics, external locus, flow, good, gratitude, growth, guilt, human condition, identity, immanence, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, kindness & compassion, loneliness, love, meaning, medical model, natural world, non-conforming, objectification, organismic experiencing, paradigm shift, perception, physical being, political, power and powerlessness, presence, reality, relationship, rewilding, self, self concept, spirituality, sustainability, touch, transformation, values & principles | Tagged abundance, achievement, affordable counselling exeter, agency, alienating systems, alienation, aliveness, ancestors, awakening, Becoming Indigenous, belonging, belonging to a place, belongingness, Big Pharma, body as a thing, body as an object, boundaries, capitalism, ceremony, challenge, challenging harm, change, Charles Eisenstein, collective being, coming home, commodity economy, community, competition, competitive, conforming, conformity, connection, consciousness, consumerism, control, controlling, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, dependency, dependency on experts, disease model, disembodiment, disorder model, dominating civilization, domination, eco sexual, ecosexual, embedded, embodied experience, embodiment, external locus, feeling of belonging, Finding Our Way Home, flexible boundaries, flow, fluid boundaries, fluidity, generosity, gift culture, gift interactions, giving, globalisation, globalization, gratitude, group energy, group field, guilt, home, home in the world, homecoming, identity, ideology of reductionism, indigeneity, indigenous, indigenous people, indigenous spirituality, industrial food system, initiation, inseparable, intelligence, interbeing, interconnectedness, interconnection, interdependence, internal locus, intimacy, intimate relationship to nature, intuition, kindness, kinship, lost connections, love, low cost counselling exeter, materialism, medical model, modern medicine, money economy, mythology of separation, native spirituality, nature of reality, non sexual touch, non-separation, normalcy, normalisation, normalization, objectification, objectifying, oneness, oppression, organismic experience, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, participation, patriarchal attitudes, patriarchy, person centred counselling exeter, purpose, reality, receiving, reclaiming a sense of belonging, reductionism, relationship, ritual, Schumacher College, Self, sense of belonging, separate self, separation, sexual touch, sexuality, social relationships, spirituality, standardisation, standardization, story, Story of Separation, strangers, theory of change, Touch, tribe, uniqueness, victim, virtual experience, web of life, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

The Hope Chest: The writing on the wall – Kim Johancen-Walt

Posted on March 31, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://ct.counseling.org/2015/03/the-hope-chest-the-writing-on-the-wall/ Interesting couple of case studies with Kim’s thoughts, from Counseling Today, a publication of The American Counseling Association. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter

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Palace Gate Counselling Service, Viktor Frankl & Carl Rogers

Posted on March 9, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

“But today’s society is characterized by achievement orientation, and consequently it adores people who are successful and happy and, in particular, it adores the young. It virtually ignores the value of all those who are otherwise, and in so doing … Continue reading →

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